<p>With the understanding that the choice of academic school you indicated is not binding, explain why you are applying to that particular school of study.</p>
<p>3000 characters available, which is 450-600 words.</p>
<p>I have a many reasons I could mention in my response but I'm afraid if it's too long they'll get bored and it'll end up hurting my application.</p>
<p>How long do you guys think it should be?</p>
<p>450-600 words I guess.</p>
<p>The adcoms know that people often change their minds about what they want to study, so you don’t need to go into too much detail. Just highlight a few important ones, and maybe write something about yourself that you couldn’t write in another essay, and show how they line up…etc</p>
<p>You don’t have to use all of the characters given to you. I answered that particular question with 148 words, and I received my acceptance yesterday. If it takes you 450-600 to accurately describe WHY you are applying to your chosen school of study, then use 450-600 words. If you can answer the prompt with less words (and feel confident that you got your point across) then use less words. Only you can make the final judgement before you send in your application.</p>
<p>Another question: the prompt asks for a reflection on why I’m applying to a certain school. I’m applying for Biomedical Engineering (obviously in the School of Engineering); I also applied for Biomed at UT Austin, and there was a similar question in that application, asking for a response on “Why Biomedical Engineering?” </p>
<p>My question is, how strict is the distinction between school and major? I already have a pretty good essay for why I want to do biomedical engineering, but I don’t have one for just engineering in general. It seems like the “Why Biomedical” essay would be more informative than the “Why engineering” one, too.</p>
<p>Just a pointer, you might want to take it easy on the stressing of biomedical engineering; Rice doesn’t have Biomed Engineering as a major. However, they do have Bioengineering.</p>
<p>Is the bioengineering program similar to biomedical engineering, then? I hear it tossed around a lot that Rice has a great biomedical engineering program.</p>
<p>yes bioengineering and biomedical engineering are basically the same thing…although there might be some slight differences the content of your essay should be fine as long as you change the name from biomedical engineering to bioengineering</p>