Hi everyone. Currently I am a double major at UIUC in Matsci Engineering and Physics Engineering. Only recently have I decided that I wanted to pursue a PhD, and as a result have no formal research experience. I've had two extensive internships at two different small battery companies in which I did R&D and had to read papers/run experiments. My main concern is that I have a relatively low GPA of 3.5 exactly (about 3.65 for junior year) and no publications. However, the second half of this summer I will be working on research for solar cells.
So should I even bother throwing money at applications to the top 10 schools? Honestly, I don't really know where to begin as for deciding where I should apply. I've been told that I should look for somewhere that has faculty working on projects that interest me. Ideally, I'd like to study semiconductor devices like solar cells, or maybe even ferroelectric/magnetic materials. However I've found that pretty much any decent school has professors working on both of these topics. So how do I focus this down further? Thanks.
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