<p>Man, 11 places. That's a lot of applications to fill out.</p>
<p>Edit: I don't know why my post is before yours, Fetton - I definitely posted mine afterwards..</p>
<p>HT, I have time-manipulation abilities ;)</p>
<p>But ya, is 11 a bit excessive? Probably... it sure was expensive and time-consuming. I spent multiple Saturdays spent doing absolutely nothing but applications. However, I'm extremely paranoid about not getting in anywhere so the carpet bombing had to be done!</p>
<p>Fetton, I know exactly what you mean. But really, deep inside, I think everyone knows that they will get in somewhere. With your GPA and research, I'll be very surprised if you don't get into your top 5 or 6 choices, assuming your recommendations are strong.</p>
<p>11's not bad. I'm applying to 8. Only thing I'm worried about is annoying my LOR writers lol.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what kind of math are you into, HT? I can't tell by looking at your list.</p>
<p>MS Mechanical Engineering
Schools: UTexas, Texas A&M, Berkeley, Minnesota, Colorado Boulder, and Stanford (Civil)</p>
<p>Stats withheld :)</p>
<p>Fetton, I guess that is more or less my point. I have gotten good marks in everything and I'm interested in everything. So I'm applying to larger departments so that I can have some breadth of choice. At the moment it's either number theory or algebraic geometry, but i'm open to (all) alternatives :) PDEs or topology sounds fun too.</p>
<p>That's cool, HT. Good luck with it all.</p>
<p>You'd get writers cramp from writing out my list:</p>
<p>Washu
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
UNC
OSU
Indiana State
University of Arizona
University of Iowa
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
VCU
Penn State
and another one I can't remember right now...</p>
<p>Two body problem sucks :(</p>
<p>Hmm top 650... I figured that I might as well chuck out a random number as undergrad ranking is so pointless anyway.
Most of you are applying to alot of places, more than 5 or 6. I'm already having trouble filling out three applications...</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody :)</p>
<p>Phd in Comp Bio / Theoretical Bio
GPA (ivy): 3.1 , in-major: 3.02 bio/math
GRE: 530v, 750q, 3.5w (cold baby)
2 yrs research math bio</p>
<p>harvard, yale, columbia, nyu, brown, mit, stanford, uwash, ucdavis, utaustin, uchicago, cornell</p>
<p>daredevil? yep :)</p>
<p>What is math bio? It's not too late to put in some safety applications.</p>
<p>I'm assuming that means mathematical biology. To my knowledge, this is essentially statistics applied to biological systems? I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Yes I second what belevitt said, it really is not too late to send in safety applications. I mean one or two is not too big of a chore.</p>
<p>Applying to PhD in Biomedical/Bioengineering, specialization in microfluidics/mirco-nano biotechnology.
Top 10 engineering schools
GPA: 3.57
3 conf. publications, acknowledgement in nature nanotech, 3 recommendations (1 from nanotech director in UIUC, 1 from prov who invented microPIV, 1 from a class prof)</p>
<p>Applying to:
Purdue, UIUC, Gatech, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, MIT</p>
<p>Do you guys think I should apply more? I choose the programs based on research in mircrofluidics. I would be happy if I can get in to Cornell. Good luck guys.</p>
<p>PhD in comp. bio/bioinfo./systems bio.
Two honour degrees (biochemistry and computer science)
GPA: 3.82 (biochem), 3.98 (comp. sci)
Top 5 Canadian university
GRE: 1320+4.5 (no subj. GRE)</p>
<p>one 1st author conf. paper (best paper), three co-authored papers (conf+journal), two posters at conf.
Two LORs from supervisors, 3rd one is tenured professor who taught me in two chem courses</p>
<p>Apply to: utoronto, stanford, mit, berkeley, princeton, yale, harvard, uw, ucsf, ucsd, jhu
(counting on utoronto if cannot get in a US school, and will feel no regret because there are still postdoc opportunities in US)</p>
<p>Wish everyone good luck!</p>
<p>Bernard, what program did you apply to at Hopkins? I didn't know they had a computational or systems biology program.</p>
<p>sarbruis, I applied to the biomedical engineering program, there's an option called computational biology within the program. you can check it out here: The</a> Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute at Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Thanks. I missed that page somehow--and also the Computational Medicine page.</p>
<p>So i'm from India.. and my interests are in black (South asian) british writing.. gpa is irrelevant, because i'm from india.. and recos state that i'm good at what i do, and i have potential for research. Gre - V650. Writing sample, i dont know if its great, but my advisor says it screams out originality. If htat matters. </p>
<p>Applying to columbia, Uchicago, northwestern etc.. Do you think i have a shot with columbia?</p>
<p>notmythang, GPA will still be relevant. You will likely need your transcripts evaluated. your verbal is good (around the 90th percentile); whats your quant?</p>