<p>I think cblinks did a good job at his selection in terms of applying to a range of schools in Biomedical Engineering to optimize his chances of at least getting accepted somewhere and still have shots at the top 25 programs.</p>
<p>Engineering Specialties: Biomedical/Bioengineering
New! Ranked in 2007 Graduate Level:</p>
<p>University of California–Berkeley (12)
Stanford University (CA) (12)
University of California–Davis (24)
Cornell University (NY) (24)
Pennsylvania State University–University Park (30)
University of Southern California (Viterbi) (30)
SUNY–Stony Brook (37)</p>
<p>All top 50 schools, so I’m sure you’ll at have no problem with prestige at least. Match in interests is probably your priority though. What’s your top choices? You obviously like California and I can’t blame you.</p>
<p>Sorry back on topic. Invitations usually happen in Jan - March. But, from my opinion, I went to a lot of places, but I think you should only pick about ~3 schools of your top choice to visit if you get invited to many schools. I think my graduating GPA suffered because I was flying so much that quarter.</p>