PhD Chemical Engineering-What are my chances?

Mr.Zoo
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:05:24 +0000

to BlackBoy, you mentioned your friend “got phd admissions” to the good programs. Now there is huge difference between a PhD admission (“ad”) and an offer letter (“offer”). For ad you get in but you have to fund yourself, for offer the school pays for your tuition plus giving you a stipend

I suggested you to get something published is because you said you did 1 year of undergrad research work, I was referring to that work, not asking you to start something new and publish it (it’s impossible). Where did the 1 year of work go? If they are going to publish something, see if they can put you on the author list, any type of author is fine. I admit I don’t know about the situation in Africa, but I will assume if you helped someone in the lab for one year, they should have a goal for their project. Either to publish some journal paper, some conference paper, apply some patent, writing some review articles, industry contracts, etc.

Among the public schools you had, OSU seems to be the best one and fairly easy to get in. (I’m from OSU)