How do you go about actually narrowing down potential advisers from different schools? What are some tips for visitations that will help with this decision? How does one compare the prestige of different advisers? Counting publications seems silly and asking around your undergrad department...
So, what about not submitting an optional subject test score? Let's say you have a tremendous application except that you don't take the subject test (I am taking it, but this is hypothetical). How much does that hurt an application? What % of people applying to schools where the subject test...
Is it possible to impress a committee for (science) graduate school applications with GRE general test scores? What about with the non-math sections? Would even a perfect score or close to it on one of the sections stand out, or would it still just be a litmus test that doesn't really make you...
I haven't taken the chemistry GRE exam yet, and I certainty don't plan on doing poorly, but part of me wonders if I did do poorly how if would affect my applications. A majority of the places I am applying to do not require it (but "strongly recommend" it).
So if you get in the 50th...
No, you build up an amount of reduced product around the electrode.
But my same question stands. Why does that reduced product get oxidized on the reverse scan, but does nothing on the forward scan at the same voltage once it has been formed?
Take a snapshot in time at the same voltage on the...
You start at a certain voltage. Then you decrease this voltage to be more negative which reduces the analyte. Then you switch at a set voltage and increase the potential so that it is becoming more positive. Why does this switch the direction of the current so that on the reverse sweep the...
Thank you, this is good advice. Honestly I think the main reason I am running so long is that I have so much research experience to talk about, and it is hard to cut that down past a certain point. I will go through my statement and try to find parts that are obvious and see if I can cut them.
Ok see this really isn't helpful because "way too long" makes it seem... way too long, when it is still under the limit that most applications set of 2 pages single spaced. The lowest limit I have ever seen is 1000 words, which none of my applications set as the limit. So it is not "way too...
My word count right now is around 1200 words. Some applications say 1-2 pages, or "briefly describe x y and z" which my statement definitely falls into (slightly less than 2 pages). None of them explicitly give a word count, but I'm worried that I should still try to keep it under 1000 words...
/sigh
I've sunk tens of hours into writing about people based on their profiles. I think I'm ok though because I was pretty general. For example I would talk about the field they are in, and looking back now of course all of their publications are still in that field.
My specific reasons are all about specific faculty members doing research relevant to my interests. I would never say "I want to work with so and so because he is famous". I am saying, however, that I want to work with so and so because their research involves a field I am interested in and I...