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<p>Somethings to consider:</p>
<p>1) Anglia Ruskin is not really a good university in the UK sorry to be blunt but if you applied to top programs in chemistry you would have to attend the top school in your country and be one of teh top as an international student.</p>
<p>2) You did not do an undergraduate in chemistry or any of the traditional fields of chemistry: Inorganic, organic, biochemistry e.t.c. You did forensic science. You probably dont meet the general requirements for a chemistry program. </p>
<p>3) You might have applied to a particular supervisor at Cambridge who required someone with your experience (I am not sure). In the US you apply to a department where your skills and interest must typically match those of 2-3 advisers and forensic science well …</p>
<p>4) UCSF (if you did apply there) is a very very top program for chemistry/chemical biology. You should be honored to get rejected there.</p>
<p>5) Research experience- how much do you have in **chemistry **? and letters of recommendation- from my experience with UK professors, they usually tell you to write the letter of recommendation yourself, they proofread it and then they sign off on it. Sometimes it ends up being very generic.</p>