<p>good to hear from you guys who also apply to BioE program. hopefully we could hear back soon.</p>
<p>It really is good to hear from other BME people! was getting worried having only seen bio/chem posts all over the forums. The programs that i’ve gotten a chance to talk with all say that they arent reviewing apps till later this month to early feb… So it seems we need to just be calm and wait. Even last year the posts for BME didnt get hot till early February so we all have hope.</p>
<p>Heard back from Chapel Hill today that I was accepted. :D</p>
<p>Congrats! Im expecting next week to be an eventful and exciting one in terms of admission decisions.</p>
<p>School: Big state school
Major: ChemE
Overall GPA: 3.7 (~3.85 past 2 yrs)
Major gpa: 3.71
Type: White male, American</p>
<p>GRE:
800 Q
580 V
4.5 AW</p>
<p>Research Experience:
1+ yr research exp (now senior thesis)</p>
<p>Job experience:
2 summers internship w/ eng. company, ~2 yrs tutoring exp</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Couple of school scholarships, conference presentation, summer research grant</p>
<p>Applying (ChemE PhD) to:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley (fingers crossed)
Northwestern
Cornell (accepted!)
CU Boulder
U of Washington (accepted!)
WUSTL
The Ohio State
Purdue
Johns Hopkins
UC Irvine</p>
<p>also…
ETH Zurich for MS in biotechnology</p>
<p>The wait is brutal! </p>
<p>Cheme24, did you decide to apply to Cornell?</p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptances zenker11.</p>
<p>My list actually changed quite a bit since my first post.</p>
<p>I was about to start my application to Cornell, but then I got my Michigan acceptance so I decided not to apply to Cornell. They let you know pretty fast huh?</p>
<p>My final list is: MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Michigan (accepted), Texas, Minnesota, and Delaware. I really have my heart set on Princeton but worst case i’ll still end up at a tier 1 engineering school like Michigan so I’m not too worried haha.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, you have nothing to worry about now that you have an offer from Michigan… Sounds like a nice array of schools, good luck with the rest of them! </p>
<p>And as for Cornell, they got back to me in mid Dec.</p>
<p>Wow thats really fast. Their deadline was late January no? I guess they did rolling admission. Good luck to you as well! Hope to hear some good new soon haha</p>
<p>Undergrad. Study: Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Status: Current senior</p>
<p>Undergrad. Major(s): Materials science </p>
<p>Undergrad GPA: 3.65 overall, 3.89 for junior/senior years</p>
<p>Research Experience:
- 3 years, 2 different projects, neither really related to intended grad school research.
- 3rd author on one paper
- 3 poster competition wins</p>
<p>GRE Scores:
-Verbal: 168 (98%)
-Quantitative: 162 (87%)
-Analytical: 5.0 (87%)</p>
<p>(I think I must be the only engineer with higher verbal than quantitative… : / ) </p>
<p>Letter of Rec: one from each project adviser, one from a professor who taught the first graduate class that I took in undergrad. The ones from the advisers should be good. I’m kind of doubtful about the quality of the 3rd one (also had some punctuality issues).</p>
<p>Prospective Graduate Program: Ph.D. in materials science, specifically electronic materials with solid state device applications. Also applying to one electrical engineering program, in the solid state electronics track. </p>
<p>Prospective Graduate Schools (all Ph.D.):
-UCSB (accepted! yay)
-Berkeley
-Northwestern
-UCSD
-UCLA
-University of Florida
-UT Austin (for electrical engineering)</p>
<p>Haven’t heard from any of the others yet. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>zenker11, very kind of you to post your stats. Stellar accomplishments but still human.</p>
<p>School: big state school
Major: Chemical Engineering
Minor: Biomed Eng
Overall GPA: 4.0
Sex: dude</p>
<p>GRE: not anything impressive. But, based on my feedback (see below), i’m further convinced that GRE doesn’t say anything. </p>
<p>Research Experience:
2 years Biomimetic project- started as a freshman (includes one summer between academic years)
Summer REU at U Florida
1 year captain of ChemE Car team (bonus: started the club at my school)
Amgen Scholar (bonus…!)</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Crap ton. One national award (1 of 15 winners).</p>
<p>Pubs:
writing a publication as first author. I hope to submit late in spring.</p>
<p>Graduate Courses:
none</p>
<p>Applying to Ph.D programs to the following Universities:
UMich (accepted)
Stanford (accepted, top choice!)
Cornell (accepted)
UPenn (accepted)
Delaware
Princeton
UWashington
NSF GRFP
DOE Fellowship
Whitaker Fellowship</p>
<p>School: top 5 US engineering
Major: mechanical eng
Minor: biology
Overall GPA: 3.9
Type: domestic male</p>
<p>GRE: 800Q, 620V, 4.5AW</p>
<p>Research Experience:
1.5 years on bioMEMS at school
2 summers on computational fluid dynamics and wind energy at national lab
starting a project on experimental fluids this semester at school</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
quite a few, but mostly school level</p>
<p>Pubs:
1st author in respectable peer-reviewed journal, upcoming conference presentation</p>
<p>Undergrad TA:
2 lower level mechanical eng classes for 3 semesters</p>
<p>Applying to Ph.D programs in mechanical eng, bio eng or bmed eng to the following Universities:
Berkeley
Caltech
Cornell
Georgia Tech
MIT
Michigan
Stanford</p>
<p>Anyone hear about interview invites from Caltech Bioengineering? I saw one posting on GradCafe’s results search today, and I’m starting to worry cause it’s a small program and they probably send out all the invites at once.</p>
<p>@tensor
I asked the same question in the Biosciences thread, with no responses.</p>
<p>yeah, just saw that too, and one from UCSD. although I didn’t apply to either one, I start to feel worried now as schools are sending out invitations. also, I just saw one person posted on Gradcafe he/she got interview from Duke on Jan 3, which makes me freak the heck out right now.</p>
<p>ducphan89-</p>
<p>The interview for Duke was posted by me. I had a phone interview and was invited during that to a formal recruitment weekend. This is next weekend and my travel arrangements have already been made. It is my understanding that Duke holds 3 of these, with roughly ~10 students per session. Don’t worry yet, there are still more to come in Feb and Mar. The prof I spoke to said he wanted me to visit ASAP.</p>
<p>From looking at your profile, are you interested in Truskey’s lab?</p>
<p>yes. Truskey’s or Reichert’s lab. I feel nervous now since you said they are holding interviews yet I haven’t heard anything back.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be too worried yet. Truskey is a good guy from what I hear.</p>
<p>so the phone call you have was from Reichert?</p>
<p>Not Reichert, sorry; hence the delete.</p>