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If you mean UCB/UCSF, I'm pretty sure they'll send out initial rejections and invitations next week. They say late January on their website and results from prior years do come around this time.

I was on Northwestern's first team in 2010. We only got a Silver Medal that year because we had to figure out how to run a team successfully. The team we picked and mentored for the next year did very well though! =P Congrats on y'all's win!

Oh, right, I should probably do this. Undergrad Institution: Northwestern University Master's Institution: Northwestern University Major(s): Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate GPA: 3.29 Two-Year Undergraduate GPA: 3.55 Master's GPA: 3.67 Type of Student: Domestic, male, white, lower middle class, rural South GRE Scores: Q: 168 (97%) V: 165 (95%) W: 4.0 (49%) (I'm a damn good writer though and my SOPs reflect this fact) Research Experience: 4 years as a Work-Study lab tech, 3 years doing independent research, iGEM Team Member, a summer in rural Africa working on a tuberculosis diagnostics project (finishing up my to-be-published Master's thesis on orthogonal biosensors now) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Undergraduate Research Grant, a few Dean's Lists, $45k educational grant for a global health certificate, Pertinent Activities or Jobs: I've been a teaching assistant in addition to the stuff listed above Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I think I listed everything? Special Bonus Points: Family's kinda poor? Schools, in order (All biomedical or bioengineering): EPFL, University of Washington, Stanford, Duke, UCB/UCSF, Harvard, Yale, Boston University, Rice I know I didn't apply to any safety schools and thus only give myself about a 50% chance of getting in anywhere. However, it's more important to me that I do research in the field I want (immune engineering) than it is to get a PhD. If I don't get in, I'll go work a few years and try again.

Dude, what's with those low GRE scores for accepted bioengineering applicants?

I thought about that, but decided against it. If you find out good news awesome, but you were going to anyway. If it's bad news, then you brought bad news and everything that goes with it down upon yourself. I know if everyone rejects me I'm gonna be pretty damn down, so as much as I wanna know I'm in no rush to be dejected.

By the way, do you also want to punch someone in the face every time you read that "Meh.." about acceptance into UW? They have a damn good BioE program!

Yeah, we're talking about Bioengineering.

They most likely will, but it makes sense for them to go through the international pool first since the applicant and acceptance pool is smaller, plus many other international deadlines fall before domestic. Everyone seems to be doing them first. Once we start seeing responses come out for Americans we can read more into it.

Are you international? Because all those UW's have been for internationals.

Hnnnnnnnnngh UCB/UCSF Bioengineering needs to announce soon...

The biotech industry has started hiring a bit more, plus last year was ridiculously competitive. It may be that that competition discouraged as many people from trying this year.

Well I know personally that the Northwestern BME program saw fast growth in applicants the last couple years only to see about a 10% drop this year, and other people here have said this year is supposed to be somewhat less competitive than last.

To be honest, it probably has to do with ongoing uncertainty regarding the budget cut battles with Congress.

I e-mailed my top choice professors at each school, but am beginning to think I should have picked my top two or so. Was that a screw-up? Even though I mention no fewer than three professors per school in my SOPs, will it be frowned on that I only emailed one?

First UW Bioengineering rejection is up, but it looks like that one might be circumstance-specific.

Congrats to everyone who got interviews! Another quick question for y'all: around what time of day have you been getting notifications, or has it been scattered?

Has anyone replying here been accepted to Boston University's BME program? The deadline for domestic applicants was last night, so are y'all international students? Or does BU have rolling admissions?

I'm jealous of you micro and cellular biology people. I'm ready to start hearing from bioengineering and BME folks so I know if I need to start job-hunting...

Ask the second university that invited you for an interview if you can reschedule. If you make the point that the other university asked you first, you won't tip your hand as to any preference.

Out of curiosity, did you outline your research interests much in your SOP?

What do you mean pre-interview screening? I emailed a professor at Duke myself, and he said he'd email me back after reviewing my application if he had any questions.

Has anyone heard from University of Washington, Stanford, Duke, Harvard, or the joint UCB/UCSF bioengineering programs, whether that be rejection, interviews, or acceptances? Not a peep for me.

Hey guys, so I heard (though I don't remember from whom) that Dr. Collins at Boston University was transitioning to an all-postdoc structure. His lab's personnel page does in fact have 4x as many postdocs as graduate students. So can anyone confirm? Thanks!