Masters than PhD

Graduate School
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<p>A question for you guys. If I were to go to UCSD for a masters in Bioengineering and complete it in about a year and a half and then apply to Berkeley (in the Fall of 2007) what would be my chances? Would Berkeley care about my undergrad stats or my grad stats? Would they look down on me coming in with a masters? For reference, these are my undergrad stats:</p>

<p>GPA (in major and overall): 3.7</p>

<p>GRE: 800Q, 630V, 5.5A (second time) and 720Q, 590V, 5.5A (first time...don't ask Smile)</p>

<p>Publications: 2 conference publications (in international conferences, 1 as first author), 2 (maybe 3) international journal publications (2 as first author)</p>

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<p>that should be "then" not "than" in the title...Im an engineer, go figure :)</p>

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<p>Nah, if anything they would "look up on you" for doing it. That of course presumes that you do well in your master's. If you just barely pass your master's degree classes, then that won't be good. </p>

<p>Assuming that you do do well, then your master's performance will trump your undergrad performance.</p>

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<p>I was under the impression that UCSD had a better bioengineering program than Berkeley...</p>

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<p>UCSD does have a better bioengineering program in general. However, my area is in Bio-micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS) and Berkeley/Michigan are the two best schools in the field followed by MIT, Standford, and Georgia Tech.</p>