[How competitive are bioinformatics grad programs?]

1. Georgia Tech has the oldest BINF PhD program in the US. However, it's competitiveness depends on which "home school" you apply to. You can get a BINF degree from school of biology, school of biomedical engineering, cs, etc...

I thought that at least for the Masters Program in Bioinformatics, you can only apply to Georgia Tech from the School of Biology.

 

I got into the Professional Masters Bioinformatics program at Georgia Tech, the Masters of Science Bioengineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Masters of Science Bioinformatics program at UMich. If I were to pursue Bioengineering at RPI, I would go for the computational track, so I consider my choice for RPI to be equivalent to a Bioinformatics program (RPI doesn't have a formal Bioinformatics program yet). Any idea which program I should pick, and what are the strengths/weaknesses of each?