The Interviews: An Introduction

In scouring the internet for a primer to chemistry grad school visits, I mostly came up empty. There are a few resources out there (see here and here), but mostly it's a wasteland. So I'm going to throw my hat into the ring now. My voice won't necessarily be typical, because I'm visiting more schools than is typical, and because I'm already out of school and therefore not doing homework in my spare time. But I think that gives me the advantage of a decent perspective on the whole process. Here's my schedule for the next couple months:

2/10 - 2/12    TPCB (Weill Cornell/Sloan Kettering/Rockefeller)
2/13 - 2/15    Harvard Chemical Biology
2/20 - 2/22    Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla)
2/27 - 2/29    Scripps Research Institute (Jupiter)
3/06 - 3/08    Columbia Chemistry
3/09 - 3/11    UCSF CCB
3/12 - 3/13    Stanford Chemistry
3/14 - 3/16    UC Berkeley Chemistry
3/20 - 3/22    Cal Tech Chemistry
3/28 - 3/30    Northwestern Chemistry
TBD             MIT Chemistry
4/15             Deadline Day!

I'll be in Chicago for the organized MIT visit day, so I have to organize my own campus visit for that program. Which thankfully won't be too hard, since I'll already be in Boston anyway. Decisions to all these places are due April 15, so I'll have a little processing time before I have to commit. The visits can be exhausting, so I'll probably need to take some time to get my thoughts in order. In the meantime, I'll try to do these updates in as real-time a way as possible. Happy reading!