<p>My daughter is a senior, interested in Biomedical Engineering. Ready to send off college aps in the next 4-5 weeks and want some opinions, so we dont overlook any great potential schools. Still real unsure of favorites at this point. Financial Aid, huge issue as a single income family. So definitely have financial need. We live in Florida, but for the right school out of state is great too. </p>
<p>Background:</p>
<p>Senior IB ( Rigorous IB Math and Science, ie CALC 1-2, IB CHEM, AP BIO, etc )
Dual enrolled at local college ( completed ALG, STATS, CHEM 1 )
4.0 GPA For college classes
Musician ( studied piano entire childhood, last 4 years under head of music studies at local university)<br>
4 years Honor Choir
Varsity Golf and softball all four years!
National Honor Society</p>
<p>IB Student, IB Diploma expected
4.7 GPA
3.9 Unweighted
660 Math SAT ( 1st time taking 2nd time next month)
600 Reading
650 Writing
31 ACT ( 1st time taking 2nd time next month )</p>
<p>Here's my list at this point:</p>
<p>UF
Florida State
UCF<br>
UM ??
Florida Schools great financial aid with Florida Bright Futures</p>
<p>BU
DUKE ( may be out of my reach) ??
Vanderbilt
Cornell</p>
<p>Ideas welcome and appreciated based on stats so that we are looking at the right schools based on stats. </p>
<p>I just visited Washington University in St. Louis, and their Engineering department is mostly devoted to Biomedical. They’ve just built new facilities and labs, plus you’re working with the WashU medical school, one of the best in the country.</p>
<p>John Hopkins / Duke / UCSD would be my first choice but if the tuition is the problem, I suggest close to your home like Georgia Tech. But I think she needs to improve SAT math score before applying to any of the schools I mentioned. University of Florda have good engineer program but I don’t know about biomedical.</p>
<p>The SAT scores is too low for the prestigious one at the moment.
Is this the state school you are interested in?
[FAMU-FSU</a> College of Engineering :: Chemical and Biochemical engineering](<a href=“http://www.eng.fsu.edu/cbe/]FAMU-FSU”>http://www.eng.fsu.edu/cbe/)</p>
<p>From reading this forum (no firsthand experience), some say that to work in biomedical engineering, you really need grad school. So, getting a degree in general engineering is fine. Then go to a graduate program that has the biomedical field you are interested in. </p>
<p>That being said, you should consider Smith which has a general engineering major and is test-optional. Your daughter’s excellent grades will not be dragged down by her test scores.</p>
<p>He got into the biomedical engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin. It’s a very selective program, so we were surprised he got in. His SAT scores were 690 CR, 780 M, and 750 W. His OOS high school didn’t rank. He was an Eagle Scout and an excellent distance runner (varsity three seasons, all four years).</p>
<p>UT is expensive for OOS students, but it’s not too hard to qualify as a resident and get in-state tuition (I say that, but they’re thinking about changing the rules. I’m hoping they grandfather students who are currently freshmen, or we will be in trouble! We can’t afford four years of OOS tuition.).</p>
<p>He understands that he’ll need more than a BS, and that’s fine with him. He’s thinking about grad school or medical school (for now - who knows where he’ll end up!).</p>
<p>My son is attending Case Western and loving every minute of it. They are ranked in the top ten for Biomedical engineering. Plus Cleveland Conservatory of Music is right next door. My son had 730’s on his SAT (9AP’s and excellent grades, good EC’s, Eagle Scout) and got waitlisted at Wash U. He did check out University of Miami as he got a great scholarship there, but he thought the biomed engineering was stronger at Case.</p>
<p>Thanks for the continued great information, hsmom6, stevietopsiders, 2bizee, gtsblows and mainlonghorn. Like what I see regarding Washing U and would just need to see if they would offer he a financial package if accepted. We have not looked at Case, but has a great reputation and will look at that one too! Thanks ! We like what we see regarding UCSD, but wow just so far from FL the flights home would be brutal! I would prefer she stayed out East. I liked Miami, two hours from home, but she wants to get out of FL </p>
<p>We understand her SAT scores are on the low side, next test in in OCT. Hope they increase as she just took two college math classes this summer. Depending on school, she should have a substancial amount of her year 1-2 completed. Which will allow her to complete MS on a faster track. Then she may look at med school, she’s not sure.</p>
<p>One thing we are keeping in mind, the better the school and connections will lead her to better job placement in the future? </p>
<p>Go get the cheapest education you can at undergrad. You need a graduate degree in BME to do real work anyway, so where she gets her undergrad degree doesn’t matter. She’ll be much better off getting a BME degree with as little debt as possible at undergrad, working her butt off to get awesome grades, and THEN getting into a top engineering program for grad school. But at the grad school level, tuition is/should be free!</p>
<p>^ Why would it be free for a masters? I’m quite familiar with full funding for PhD programs if one is going into academia, but not for terminal graduate degrees geared to sending one back into industry. Thus for example, getting a PhD in a business school, your tuition is free and you are given a stipend; but not so for MSc in business or MBA.</p>
<p>If you apply to the right programs, masters are free. I would never, ever pay for a graduate degree (unless it’s something professional like MD). Even if a University you want to go to doesn’t fund their masters programs, you should get your company to pay for it.</p>
<p>University of Michigan, for instance, funds ALL of their graduate students.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if there is a public school in Florida that has BME as a major. Neither UF nor UCF has one, as far as I know. UM is not public, by the way.</p>
<p>Florida school options are limited, UM and UF both do have a program. She does want a MS program. She will have the benifit of Bright Futures that will cover close to 100 % if she remains at a state school in FL. Yes it has been a thought to stay at UF for undergrad, then goes elsewhere for gradschool. It just appears UF does not have the academic reputation that others have in this major.</p>
<p>I am currently a graduating senior from Florida, and I am in a similar dilemma as to choosing my college list. I am trying to cut it down to three “no merit aid” schools, and I am currently in between 4: MIT, Stanford, UPenn, and Harvard. If I had to take one out, which one would be recommended? I am thinking of choosing between Harvard and Penn, since Stanford and MIT are pretty much lock-ins. Thank you so much for your time.</p>
<p>This is factually inaccurate. You are perhaps confusing Masters and PhDs. Most PhD programs are fully funded; few Master’s programs are. It is commonly noted on CC that ‘you shouldn’t pay for your PhD’ but that does not translate at all to terminal masters degrees or professional masters. It doesn’t make a lot of sense for schools to fund people going back into industry; it does for those pursuing an academic career.</p>
<p>At Michigan for example, there is very limited funding for Master’s students in engineering. Read this link: </p>
<p>Hello fellow CCers! I am a graduating high school senior who plans to study BME. I have narrowed down my decision to three colleges, and I would like to get some input from others here, for I have read very good advice over the last couple months regarding college decisions. Between MIT full price, GaTech at 20 grand a year, and UM full ride (stamps scholarship), where do you think would be the best place for me to go for a BME undergraduate education? Thanks for your input, it is much appreciated!</p>