Recent content by LogicX

How exactly will I have the opportunity to talk with their current grad students? It's not like they are going to let me loose in their lab...

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...

And here I was excited about my general test scores... I guess I still have the harder one to deal with then.

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 could have sworn I remembered reading in the applications I looked at to list "non-misdemeanor" offenses.

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...

An actual conversation is not much of a possibility until I actually get accepted and visit the campuses.

/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...

I'm not worried about the money if it means having a better chance of acceptance. It's hard to write an essay about why I want to go to each school. Like I said I have been pointing out the faculty members that are doing work that interests me and why, but I don't really have anything to say...