<p>@zenker11: Thanks, much appreciated! I applied in early December and they notified me by email last Wednesday afternoon (the letter that they attached to the email was dated last Monday though). I checked up on your stats and they look solid enough (congrats on the acceptances you have btw), so hopefully they’re doing acceptances in batches and you get good news too.</p>
<p>hi dauntless, I did some digging, and found your stats to be similar to mine. But you mentioned that you have a famous professor vouching for you. Do you have any advice or insight that can help me prepare myself? thanks</p>
<p>Just got an offer from UT Austin for PhD in Chemical Engineering! I can finally sleep!</p>
<p>Undergrad Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Major: Chemical Engineering
Overall GPA: 4.0
Type: Domestic Male</p>
<p>GRE: 166V/170Q/4.0AW</p>
<p>Research Experience:
-2 semesters and 1 summer in a nanotechnology lab
-1 summer REU program
-1 semester in a polymer lab
-no publications</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Just some departmental awards</p>
<p>Applying Ph.D in chemical engineering with a specific interest in polymers:
MIT (Accepted: 12/23/11 by phone and 1/9/12 by e-mail)
Princeton
UT Austin (Accepted: 1/17/12 by phone and e-mail)
UM Twin Cities
Berkeley
Caltech</p>
<p>Undergrad Institution: MIT
Major: EECS
Overall GPA: 5/5</p>
<p>GRE: 169V/170Q/5.5AW</p>
<p>Research Experience:
-3 1st author IEEE/ACM publications
-2 conferences (coauthor)</p>
<p>Applying Ph.D in EECS:
MIT
Berkeley
Stanford
Caltech</p>
<p>Let the wait begin!</p>
<p>9000yearoldvegan you got perfect scores from the top engineering institution with first author publications. You’re pretty much accepted to all those programs. Congrats.</p>
<p>Yeah, um… All that stuff that 9000YearOldVegan said, but better. K thanks</p>
<p>9001 > 9000 it’s over 9000!! Sigh reddit is down :(</p>
<p>Since I last posted I have received offers from UF, Akron, and Georgia Tech! I’m so excited to have several great options this early!</p>
<p>the 2 9000yearoldvirgins are trolls. Let me break this down for them, they’re pussies.</p>
<p>Undergrad Institution: Michigan
Major: EE
Overall GPA: 3.98
Type: Domestic Male</p>
<p>GRE: 166V/167Q/4AW</p>
<p>Research Experience:
-1st author IEEE paper submitted
-1 summer REU
-1 year UROP</p>
<p>Other:
Instructional Aide
Reviewed textbook for a prof</p>
<p>Applying Ph.D in EE to:</p>
<p>Stanford
MIT
Berkeley
Caltech
Harvard
Princeton
UCLA
Michigan (unofficial admit)
NSF fellowship
NDSEG fellowship</p>
<p>:( ahh don’t say that. Maybe I am a ■■■■■, but those are really my stats.</p>
<p>it looks like Berkeley/UCSF has sent out all invitations and rejections. gluck to all who got invitation. sorry for those who didn’t get one, but we’re having other schools coming up soon ;)</p>
<p>yea berkeley/ucsf bioe is done. 714 applicants this year, really competitive.</p>
<p>According to the Berkeley website, “For Fall 2011 we had approximately 500 applicants for about 68 admission slots” – meaning ~200 more than last year. Jesus.</p>
<p>my god…this is crazy. hope this won’t happen at other schools. otherwise, it would be waaayyy too competitive to get in anywhere.</p>
<p>maybe because of the nrc ranking came out last year…berkeley ranks super high.</p>
<p>@sarbruis: so did you get invitation from Berkeley?</p>
<p>ducphan89: I wish. I did get a phone acceptance from BU BME today, though, so that makes me feel a little better.</p>
<p>Oh, and about UW BioE: I believe they were planning to meet this week, but with all the snow and stuff, who knows. We’ll probably know before the end of the month, though.</p>
<p>congrats for BU phone call, and sorry about Berkeley :D. did BU call you in the middle of the day (and out of nowhere)? I just wanna know to make sure my phone would be in range next week, if I received phone call. phone signal when I’m on campus is usually weak and idk why.</p>
<p>oh, I didn’t apply to UW…I applied to WashU in St. Louis. from results of gradcafe last year, WUSTL called applicants Jan 23 sth. from the email I received from them before christmas, they will have meeting on Jan 23 or 24 sth. hoping to hear back from them next week…</p>