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Agreed. If you do happen to get something published while you are an undergrad, then that is a huge plus. However, professors know that this is a rare occurence. As I mentioned in another thread, my undergrad work didn't get published until this year, and I'm heading into my third year of grad school.
Jd1828:
I am also looking to go to grad school soon. I am starting my senior year of undergrad in the fall but because of the order I have to take some classes in, I will have to take another year to finish. I figure that this will give me 2 school years and one summer to do research and what I hear from my advisor is thats a lot more than most undergrads do. I hope this will help make up for my low gpa (exactly 3.0 right now) but I still have to take pchem so I don’t expect it to go up much. I was thinking that all my research will look good and allow me to get to know some profs that could write recommendations. Right now Im not too concerned with where I go but if I will have the grades to go to gradschool.
I have a question about the whole different school for gradschool idea. Right now I go to one of U of Minn’s smaller state school and I planned on going to the main campus for gradschool. Does that still count as being the same school?
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I know that some grad schools have a minimum GPA requirement, but I don't think it'd be an issue. Might be worth checking on though. I think that most chemistry programs will look at your GPA in your major as well. I don't think it would be as big a problem if you were going to a different campus. Certainly in the UC system there is no problem (ask Mitch!). There are some great professors at the Twin Cities campus too.
hmx9123:
Yeah, the 'same school' thing means just that--the exact same school. If you go to a state school then to another in the same system, that's fine. It's when you go to Minn state at town A and stay there for grad school that's a problem.
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