<p>Well, I just got accepted for direct admission to the bioengineering department! How competitive is DA for bioE? How is UW's bioE program ranked?</p>
<p>I thought I had decided on attending Harvey Mudd, but this is making me reconsider. Is it disadvantageous to specialize too early? My first choice is actually MIT, but I got waitlisted. =( This means I have to make a decision by May 1st...</p>
<p>My daughter was also accepted for direct admission. She visited them during the Husky Experience day on Wednesday and left very impressed and excited. I saw somewhere that the program was rated third in country (may be old) and first in grants/funding/etc. If you have questions go visit Kelli Jayn Nichols. She is great. Brand new building now too. My daughter is also in Honors and was there yesterday for that.</p>
<p>Here ya go: <a href="http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=23470%5B/url%5D">http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=23470</a></p>
<p>According to this article, their bio engineering department is ranked 4th!</p>
<p>Good job on being a DA!</p>
<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Biomedical / Biomedical Engineering
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate) </p>
<ol>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (MD)<br></li>
<li>Duke University (NC)<br></li>
<li>Univ. of CaliforniaSan Diego *<br></li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology *<br>
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology<br></li>
<li>Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)<br></li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania<br></li>
<li>Boston University<br>
Northwestern University (IL)<br>
University of MichiganAnn Arbor *<br></li>
<li>Rice University (TX)<br>
University of Washington *<br></li>
<li>University of CaliforniaBerkeley *<br></li>
<li>Tulane University (LA)<br>
Univ. of WisconsinMadison *<br>
Vanderbilt University (TN)<br></li>
<li>Stanford University (CA)<br></li>
<li>University of Virginia *<br></li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)<br>
Washington University in St. Louis</li>
</ol>
<p>This may be out of date or for the graduate program. UW is tied for 11th but that is still really good. may rise with new building opening. My daughter is considering Georgia Tech and UW and BU.</p>
<p>My thoughts are that it will be a rising department. Being its own department in its own building is a major factor. It will draw highly rated professors as well now, not being tied in as strongly which the other departments that it was.</p>
<p>my friend went to the husky expeirence thing, and they said only 10 frosh were directly admitted to the bioeng department</p>
<p>@issymom: how did you find that ranking? i would love to see the ranking for undergrad computer science ranking</p>
<p>Yes, I've been directly admitted too, along with 3 other people from my school, and was also at the Husky Experience thing. They also told me that only about 10 freshmen were admitted, but hearing from this many people, I'm not entirely sure? Anyhow, I'm not really sure, but this definately is making me reconsider my college decision. I'm trying to decide between UW, Olin college of engineering, WUSTL, and Cornell U. None of the others are ranked so well as UW, even with UW being a state school (with a new building!), so it's a hard decision.</p>
<p>Hmm...maybe the targeted number of freshmen is ten?</p>