I am absolutely set on going to graduate school to study bioinorganic chemistry (working with metal sites in proteins). At the advice of my professors and after my own searching, I have been looking at some of the higher up chem schools such as UC Berkley, CalTech, Scripps, Wisconsin-Madison, etc. Here is my present academic situation.
Biochemistry major, Biology minor – 3.944 GPA
A- in English II, Calculus I, General Chemistry II; A’s in all else
I’m currently an author (first, co, or second) on nine posters and one paper that we are currently writing. Nearly all of these are ecology related.
I have been in an ecology research lab for two years while I was building up my chem background, and am now moving into two-three chemistry projects and one biotechnology project.
I’m decently well versed in R, Python, and to a lesser extent C. A lot of those posters I am author on because I analyzed the data for the authors.
Etc etc
So here is the part that I am probably overworrying about-- right now, I am teetering on the edge of a B+ and an A- in Biochemistry I. I should be able to get the A- to A fairly easily, but I am worried about doing subpar on an exam, and what a B+ in this class will look like on a transcript to a graduate school if Biochemistry is what I want to study. Has anybody else been in a similar situation?