Grad School Chances (Biomedical Engineering)

Graduate School
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I'm a senior biomedical engineering student at a high ranked engineering school (in the 60's on the USA rankings) and am applying to PhD programs at schools currently. Some info on me:</p>

<p>-3.7 Cumulative GPA
-3.5 Major GPA
-ROTC Cadet (will be officer in May 2014)
-Internship with Baxter Inc. in Spring 2014 semester
-Research on intracranial aneurysms; will include major report and technical demo (1 year through when I graduate)
-Research on neuromorphic visual processing; will include a paper that may be published (1 year through when I graduate)
-Work with BioMEMS fabrication
-TA for biology for one year
-HENAAC Army ROTC Hispanic Cadet of the Year
-President of a fraternity and military organizaton</p>

<p>Edit: I have three very strong letters of recommendation.</p>

<p>I'm looking at a large list of schools, I'd just like to know if these are lofty ambitions or that they're achievable. I'll be taking the GRE 26 NOV and am well prepared already 2 months before. My top schools are as follows:</p>

<p>-GIT
-UC San Diego
-Stanford
-MIT
-Boston University
-Case Western
-Cornell University
-Harvard
-CalTech</p>

<p>There are some others, but I've listed my biggest interests here. These are listed in order of ranking for top biomedical engineering graduate programs, CalTech being the lowest at #27.</p>

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<p>Are you going to get an educational release to do your PhD directly after college, since you are in ROTC?</p>

<p>We can’t tell you your chances, but you look like a competitive enough applicant. The cadet of the year and president of your fraternity stuff won’t really matter as much; also, there are intangibles that you didn’t post here that will be important (your statement, your research interests, and the actual strength of your letters of recommendation). Just go ahead and apply and see what happens.</p>

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<p>Yes, I have an educational release to do my PhD directly after college.</p>

<p>I suppose there are a lot of factors but I’m glad to hear someone thinks I’m a competitive applicant. Thanks for your feedback!</p>