<p>Wanting Bioengineering background (undergrad) & will be going to a different school for Business grad. Cali/Male/Asian</p>
<p>Currently my undergrad list is:</p>
<p>Safe-Match/Safety:
UCD
UCI
Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>Match:
UCSD
UM Ann Arbor
Carnegie Mellon
UIUC</p>
<p>Slight-Reach:
UCLA
USC
Duke (ED)
Cornell (ED)</p>
<p>Reach:
UCB
Duke
Cornell</p>
<p>Are there any other schools I should be looking at? I'm still debating on Duke/Cornell for ED. I think CalTech/MIT/JHU are too much of a stretch, especially for engineering, so not gonna try. Also, should I look for more safety schools as well or are those three enough?</p>
<p>I would check into Cornell's bioengineering program carefully. It is a little unusual. Although Cornell is strong in almost every other area of engineering, its bioengineering major is not of the same caliber.</p>
<p>I also want to correct my post above -- if you want to major in BME at Hopkins, then it would be more competitive than CMU and maybe slightly more competitive than Cornell because you have to be admitted to the BME major separately. It was pretty competitive for 2007 admissions.</p>
<p>Last time I checked (few months ago), CMU BME is an adjunct major; you have to double-major in one other engineering (5 yr) and most of their BME grads seemed to end up working in fields related to their main major (i.e. not biotech/bioengg jobs). CMU is good for more traditional ones especially CS/EE. </p>
<p>I am biased but I think Northwestern has a better BME program than CMU.</p>
<p>Below is undergrad BME ranking I found posted on another thread. </p>
<ol>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (MD) </li>
<li>Duke University (NC) </li>
<li>Univ. of California–San Diego * </li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology *
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology </li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania </li>
<li>Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH) </li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * </li>
<li>Boston University </li>
<li>University of Washington * </li>
<li>Rice University (TX) </li>
<li>Northwestern University (IL)
University of California–Berkeley * </li>
<li>Stanford University (CA) </li>
<li>Vanderbilt University (TN) </li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis </li>
<li>Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
University of Virginia * </li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
University of Texas–Austin *</li>
</ol>
<p>I probably should add that Cornell recently received a $400 million gift to upgrade its biology and biomedical areas, including a new building. Perhaps the Bioengineering program will be improving. You should inquire about the impact of the $400 mil on the Bioeng program.</p>
<p>I don't know what's with the short reply from Cornell. Was it the admissions office or the bioeng dept? You never know who might answer an email...could be a student employee. Try a phone call to the department chairperson or the department administrative asst. Or try a letter. I wouldn't judge Cornell based on one curt email reply.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, there are probably better options out there for bioeng than Cornell. But I still love Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell's BEE department is still relatively new (as are BEE majors all over the country).</p>
<p>I've actually spoken with a few professors in BEE about the strength of the program. A couple of them told me that while they felt the undergraduate curriculum was fine, the graduate programs in BEE and BME were lacking for an engineering school of Cornell's caliber.</p>
<p>It is true however, that Cornell's BEE program is not as strong relative to its other engineering programs such as Applied Physics, Computer Science, and Materials Science to name a few (all 3 I just previously mentioned are amongst the top in the nation in terms of academics and research and are on the same boat with Caltech, MIT, and CMU)</p>
<p>Not too sure on chemE, mechE, Civil E, etc.</p>