<p>I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for graduate schools (chemistry Ph.D) :</p>
<p>I'm a senior at a competitive liberal arts college (Bard College) and have not-so-good grades...roughly a B- student with science grades higher than most others...a few extracurriculars and I'm very involved on campus...and I've had solid research experience including a great high school internship at a local college, 3+ years of lab research under my advisor, an NSF REU summer research program, and my name on 2 publications (2nd and 3rd author)...I would prefer a campus on a coast (next to a body of water at least) but am entirely flexible because of my grades specifically...any ideas?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Your situation is tough to evaluate because you have very good research and publishing experience, but your GPA is going to shut you out from many programs, since the majority require a minimum 3.0 GPA. I would suggest asking your advisor, since he probably has experience with applicants to grad school.</p>
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<p>Even in some of these cases, you can get around that. I actually found a pdf file of the graduate admissions policies for some school (I forget which) that has a minimum GPA requirement. And the policies said that if an applicant didn't have the minimum GPA they'd be flagged for "pre-rejection" but that the department could overrule the pre-rejection if they liked the applicant enough to do it.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that a lot of the top programs have no minimum GPA requirement, and a lot of them will consider your research experience to be very, very valuable. I don't know what your chem specialty is, and I'm also not a chemist, but I'd check out MIT, Caltech, Stanford, the UC system, U of Chicago, and some of the coastal state schools...here's a [url="<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=216609%22%5Dthread%5B/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=216609"]thread[/url</a>] with chem rankings.</p>
<p><a href="http://web1.cas.usf.edu/MAIN/program_detail.cfm?id=147&program_id=40&program_level=1&DeptId=0-1213-000%5B/url%5D">http://web1.cas.usf.edu/MAIN/program_detail.cfm?id=147&program_id=40&program_level=1&DeptId=0-1213-000</a></p>
<p>I did my masters degree in chemistry there. It's not hard to get into, it is a very solid, up anc comming university with 45,000 students in Tampa, Florida. Get an 1050+ on your GRE's and I would bet you a lunch that you are in with a TA ship (including tuition waiver).</p>
<p>thank you everyone for the help!</p>