Top choice is University of Tennessee (really interested in their new Advanced Materials facility)
GRE: 151V, 160Q, 4.5W
UG GPA: 3.957
Research experience: NNIN REU at Cornell University (worked in the nanoscale facility), 2 years of research at home institution
Research publications, patents, conferences: APS March Meeting 2015, REU final reports were all published in a book (there were 75 interns total at 14 different universities in the NNIN program and all our reports are put in the book)
PHD intended specialization: Nanomaterials, advanced materials
University list: University of Tennessee Knoxville, Vanderbilt University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Cornell University, Penn State