<p>Hey guys,
I just wanted to know what my chances are of getting into a good college for Bio Medical Engineering.
I have a 5.78/6 GPA weighted. (ranked 1 in the class)
I take many challenging courses as a junior including AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science etc.
My extra curriculars include: Varsity Wrestling, Varsity Cross Country, Debate Team ( national bound), Robotics Team, Black Belt in Taekwondo, Eagle Scout, National Honor Society, Fluent in Chinese, UTD nanoexplorers team, and I am an advanced coder.
I really want to major in Biomedical Engineering. Can anyone tell me where it would be good to apply to?</p>
<p>I also interned at a cancer imaging lab after sophomore year</p>
<p>Great stats and ECs. We need a lot more information.</p>
<p>What’s your SAT or ACT? Where do you have residency? What can your family afford to spend, the most important question and one you need to ask your parents before you start getting too excited? What region of the U.S. do you favor? Any regions you would rule out? Large, medium, small? University or LAC? coed? party school? rural, suburban, urban? How important is prestige to you?</p>
<p>Anything else you can think of to tell us? There are several thousand colleges in the U.S. With your stats you could get into 99% of them with assurance. Help us out.</p>
<p>SAT= 2372
ACT=35
They can afford pretty much everything
I live in Dallas </p>
<p>With those stats, I’d suggest just making a list of the best schools in your desired field. I, unfortunately, have no idea what they are. :)</p>
<p>You’re still leaving us with the heavy lifting, OP. I had more questions for a reason. That’s why you’re getting answers like Consolation’s. There’re too many schools to choose from without more information about you and your prefs. This is really about who you are, not who the schools are, unless you are someone who’s just all about the most prestigious schools.</p>
<p>You’ll also want to drag out Fiske and do some research there.</p>
<p>I didn’t know they got that specific with SAT scores!</p>
<p>good point, bodangles. what’s up with that, OP?</p>
<p>ok… I’m sorry about this. I want to go to a college in the northeast or California.
I have been looking at ivy leagues and other good colleges but I want to know what the best are.
I dont really like a big city schools and I was looking at:
John’s Hopkins
Duke
Stanford
Dartmouth
Upenn</p>
<p>I just want to know what the good schools are for biomedical engineering </p>
<p>While ratings aren’t the be all and end all, I’d look at the USNWR rankings of undergraduate engineering schools and USNWR rankings of bioengineering programs (even if they are for grad schools) as a starting point to pull together a list of schools to research further. Assuming you will be an auto-admit to UT-Austin you need only look at schools you’d prefer to that.</p>
<p>Do your research, then. Not all colleges offer that as an undergrad major. You might consider an alternate undergrad major and do that for grad school. Top 50 according to US NEWS from 2010, if you pay for a subscription you might find an updated list, but it shouldn’t vary all that much. Use other sources as well because there is no official ranking of colleges or departments.</p>
<p>1 Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD)
2. Georgia Institute of Technology
2 University of California–San Diego (Jacobs)
4. Duke University (NC)
5. University of Washington
6 University of Pennsylvania
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. Boston University
8. Rice University (Brown) (TX)
8 Stanford University (CA)
10. Case Western Reserve University (OH)
10 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
12. Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL)
12 University of California–Berkeley †
12 Washington University in St. Louis (Sever)
16. University of Pittsburgh
16 University of Virginia
18. University of Texas–Austin
19. Columbia University (Fu Foundation) (NY)
19 University of Utah
21. Vanderbilt University (TN)
22. California Institute of Technology
22 University of Wisconsin–Madison
24. Carnegie Mellon University ¶
24 Cornell University (NY)
24 Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN)
24 University of California–Davis
24 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
29. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
30. Arizona State University (Fulton)
30 Pennsylvania State University–University Park
30 Texas A&M University–College Station (Look)
30 University of Southern California (Viterbi)
34. CUNY–City College (Grove)
34 North Carolina State University
34 University of Iowa
37. Drexel University ¶
37 Harvard University (MA)
37 Marquette University (WI)
37 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick
37 SUNY–Stony Brook
37 University of Alabama–Birmingham
37 University of California–Irvine (Samueli)
37 University of Rochester (NY)
37 Yale University (CT)
46. Brown University (RI)
46 Clemson University (SC)
46 University of California–Los Angeles (Samueli)
49. University of Arizona</p>
<p>I will probably do a double major in CS and BME</p>
<p>I doubt it.</p>
<p>BP may be pointing out that you have to do your homework before you make a statement like that. Both CS and BME require a lot of courses such that it’s hard enough to graduate in four years taking just one of these. So go to the website for one of the above schools and research the required courses for any one of these majors. Keep in mind that you don’t know what you don’t know.</p>
<p>As a #1 ranked student in a Texas high school, will you be applying to UT Austin and Texas A&M? If affordable, these can be your safeties.</p>
<p>Have you talked to your parents about what they will contribute, and to get basic financial information to put in the net price calculator at each school’s web site?</p>
<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical</a> Here’s a list with top 10. I think its similar to the list above, just an updated version. </p>
<p>You have great stats, I think that you could potentially go to any of these top 10 schools. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Ok… what if I minor in CS</p>