<p>I am chemistry major with GPA of 3.15 (I know its very LOW). Its my fault. </p>
<p>I did not take college serious my first 3-4 years. I made VERY bad grades in EVERY class i was taking .I either dropped classes or just did not go and ended up with Fs,Ds in easy classes like Music, History etc even made 4 Fs in easiest Chemistry class....BUT after three years in college, I started to take college serious. BUT it was too late I know. Anyway...my last tow years in college i made good grades. As, and Bs. my Math GPA is 4.00 (including calculus) and Chemistry GPA is 3.5 i also did 6 hours of research. AFTER all this i know my GPA is still low cause of my mistakes from early years. Now I want to go to Graduate school, I dont even care if its the worse school I just wanna study further. I know i have no hope in going to good colleges, so i am not even gonna apply there. But is there any Universities that are not competitive, very easy to get in to and has chemistry programs ?? Please any help would be great. I am looking to go to somewhere in north east (new England area)..any easy Universities there? even if they are not good ones. I just wanna go to further studying cause i really like Chemistry. I am 26 years old. I know its already old to be going for Masters. But i dont wanna start my career with having Bachelors only. PLZ help.....</p>
<p>I do not think you should be worried about your GPA that much. Strong recommendation letters and work outside classes helps a lot. My major GPA (chemistry) was lower than yours and still i got into a number of top 10 chemistry PhD programs. I also did not take some classes seriously my first two years and didn't ever think that one day i'd apply for grad school and start regretting these. But I was able to make up for it by working at 3 positions that required "hardcore" chemistry work, and 4 different less-relevant to chemistry jobs, and getting good recs from those 3 "hardcore" chemistry places I worked at. Plus I did research for one year on the side.</p>
<p>My point is that it seems to me that chemistry graduate programs value your own research and work experience quite heavily compared to your GPA. But masters programs are less competitive than PhD's so be sure NOT TO underestimate your abilities when it comes to where to apply for masters. Apply to very good schools as well. </p>
<p>Who knows, if you get into a good school and do well there with masters, may be you'll decide to stay there for PhD and they'll let you to.</p>
<p>Some good schools are: Columbia, Univ. of Maryland (doesn't rank that high but i know of a few very happy grad students there). Be aware that so called ivies and various more uptight private schools will pay more attention to your GPA than some other public schools.</p>
<p>didn't finish the list but editing time expired ...
So there is Columbia, Univ. of Maryland, PennState, Cornell and you might try some of the tougher schools like MIT, Yale, Harvard just for the heck of trying. There are also Universities of Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois-UC, Michigan, Rochester, Northwestern.</p>
<p>You majored in Chemistry and have a 3.1 and you think that is bad? I think you need to see a shrink first, before you apply anywhere ;) A 3.1 in chem, will get you into a PhD program in almost ANY non top 20 program. Kick ass on your GRE's and you can be looking at some great programs. Chemistry is not an easy major and the admissions committees know that. Also, there just are not as many chemistry majors out there so it will not be nearly as cut throar as, say psychology. Take a deep breath, your options are many!</p>