<p>i was writing on my other thread and realized i should just start new one to be clear. i have a good idea of for what/with whom i want to work. i wanna get into genomics, its highthroughput technologies or bioinformatics. </p>
<p>--GPA 3.8/4.0 *note: i studied a year in UK where credits are transferred back but not calculated into gpa.. there i slacked alot and got shameful/barely-passing grades. do graduate programs see or care about this?
--major in biomedical engineering at a top ten (us news) university
--550V 790Q 4.5W
--research&work experience (many short research experiences, no significant results)
1 summer independent research (formal program) in human genetics
1 summer part time job (coding) in computational genomics
1 winter part time research in environmental metagenomics
1 senior independent project in nanomaterials (related to sequencing technology)
--one great rec from a PI from my summer independent research
--one ok rec from my advisor at my current institution
--(if required) one great rec from an no-name prof from UK (part time research)</p>
<p>except Oxford, im getting a phd. except oxford & berkley, i have specific faculty members i would die to work with.</p>
<p>MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program (bs in biological science + mba)
MIT Biological Engineering
Harvard/MIT - Medical Engineering and Medical Physics
Harvard University - Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases
Duke University Department of Biomedical Engineering + Institute of Genomic Science and Policy
Stanford University Department of Bioengineering
Princeton University - Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Computer Science Department
Columbia University - Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI)
University of Oxford - Biomedical Engineering or Bioinformatics (2yr master)
UC Berkley - UC San Francisco Bioengineering program</p>
<p>i guess, basically i just want to get into one of the above programs. eh... im considering UW or Florida as safeties (should i??). from just reading a website, oxford bioinformatics could be a safety as well. maybe a master in bme from oxford or duke/columbia phd might be a match?? am i too confident? please suggest more programs if i should apply more than ~10 programs. do i lack anything? </p>
<p>how many programs do people generally apply? help me thanks</p>