tuckbro

This was my apprach as well.

I found the results page very helpful as you begin to see the pattern of GPA and GRE scores. Aside from scores your experience and goals need to be a fit in their lab this season. If their Tissue Engineering lab is full then they won't take anyone with that expertise and goals etc...so it's kind of a toss up. Shp9n0108, I did get into JHU and Rice and am in your field. I was rejected from Michigan receiving a letter inferring loss of funding in tissue eng field. So I think your chances are excellent. Falcon, I think your GPA is lower than most I have seen acceoted by top schools but your research and publications may pueh you over. Good luck!!!

I have heard this too, particularly in the early stages. Once you have an interview it becomes more about fit, but you need minimum scores to make it to that point.

Just as a word of caution, check the results page to make sure you are in line with who has gotten admitted into these programs in the past. At least in my area (BME), these schools pretty much require 95% plus quant and 3.9 + GPA. I would recommend considering applications to some schools who have a lower threshold for GREs and GPA.

Just a suggestion that may help you decide if a retake is needed - I recommend using the results search tab on this site and looking at who gets interviewed at the schools you in which you are interested and who gets accepted. You will see a pretty clear pattern. For instance, at my schools, the pattern was over 95th percentile in Quant scores and 3.9 GPA.

Hi, I hope that you don't mind a word of caution. It is extremely difficult and rare to obtain a research position in Boston with only an undergraduate degree. Do you have contacts in the area that could help you? My humble opinion is that you should add a few safer schools particularly as your GRE and GPA scores are lower that those who are historically admitted at the schools to which you have applied. But of course, it is absolutely your choice! Best of luck to you!

Best of luck to the 2015 candidates!

I had similar stats and got into most of my schools so I think you will do well. Warning. I never heard anything back from Wake Forest nor did others so not sure you want to waste the app fee there. Possibly funding issues there. Also there is a thread every year under engineering for PhD in a Biomedical Engineering and you can get great info there. Best of luck!!!!

Good mix and good number. Best of luck!

Once again I must caution that it was my experience that GPA and GRE are in fact used to make first cuts so I believe it is good advice to add some schools with lower expectations in that area. If you get into higher ones, great, but it is very risky to apply to all top tier schools even if you have top scores.

Agree. At the schools I applied to there was most definitely a selet group of scores that led to interview invitations.

I think it is important to understand that top schools DO have cutoffs - GRE, GPA, years of research. If your scores are not competitive it is unlikely your SOP will be read. Sorry but that is what I have seen. To determine if you are competitive score-wise I would take a close look at the Results page. You will quickly see a pattern of those accepted/rejected. You can certianly apply if you really want to go there, however, if your scores are not in line with who they interviewed and accepted last year, it would be wise to include some safer schools, numbers-wise. Yes, in the final round, post interview, it does come down to fit, but I would not recommend discounting a first round numbers cut. Just my observation.

NO.

I think GREs can eliminate you but cannot get you in alone. In my field if you want to go to a top program you need a quant of 95% or better. Just look at the results page and you'll see the pattern for your schools.

3.96 92% verbal 98% math. Recs are not a deal breaker, no one component is. It's a wholistic thing.

Quite a few of the students in my incoming BE PHD program at MIT are coming from state schools.

Agreed, if you have great stats, recs, research etc. you do not need to be published. I was not at time of application and got into top schools.

By Cornell Graduate School, do you mean Cornell Biomedical Engineering PhD program? If so, it looks like the admits went out in Feb and rejections around April 1st for the most part. You can search by Cornell Biomedical in the results search tab. If that is the program you are asking about, then I am afraid your only recourse is to call or email Cornell to find out what happened to your application.

Has anyone heard back from the Virginia Tech/Wake Forest BME program? IT was one of my safety schools, so I don't really care, but it is kind of unprofessional not to respond at all to someone who has applied, paid the fee etc... Just wondering if it's just me or if they did not respond to anyone.

Yeah! Congrats on making your decision!

With decision day approaching, where is everyone going ?

Committed to MIT BE yesterday! Very happy!

Still waiting on some results, hope to decide this week!

Good luck with your decisions everyone! For those who did not receive offers, it will work out! Happened to a good friend last year, so she worked for a year at a Medical Center doing research and re applied, getting into several excellent schools. Keep the faith!

Alternate at JHU, but likely to admit - I think that means towards the top of the waitlist....