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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    I feel the exact same way. Penn and Columbia were my top picks going into the application process. They ghosted me for ages, and I still haven't even received a rejection from Columbia yet. I love their locations and think my research fit was spot on, but in the end I'm grateful for what happened.
    Once you're in the top 20 or so, there's not much of a difference. There are amazing resources at all of these institutions. And when it comes down to it, if you don't have a supportive advisor or the willpower to be productive during the PhD, then rank alone won't get you very far.
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    GoatMom19 reacted to extramaniac in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    lol just "received" my "rejection" from penn after being "invited" to a "chat" yesterday despite the deadline to choose a school on monday. worst graduate admissions office of any school I applied to. wait till after the deadline to "give" a decision and be completely unreceptive to any sort of emails. fuck them
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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Wow. At this rate they might have all of this cycle's decisions out by the deadline for fall 2020 apps...
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    GoatMom19 reacted to Teaching Faculty Wannabe in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    I just got my funding letter from them today and I accepted my offer from them in March. You could contact the department and see when you might receive the letter. You will more than likely not pay tuition. You get a tuition waiver when you get a graduate assistantship. The only thing you will have to pay is student fees and health care, but since the grad students at UConn have a union, things are cheaper for grad students than most other schools. So, the fees would be about $600 per semester, I think, and the healthcare will be about $400 per school year, I remember correctly. It's not too bad and you can have the school automatically take that out of your stipend before you receive the money.
    I think it should be fine. I know it may be hard to trust his word, but I feel grad school will require us to do a lot of trusting. You could always email your PI about the funding letter as well.
    Good luck and I can't believe we will be in the same cohort! So excited! Go Huskies!
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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Congratulations! So glad it's worked out for you, and it sounds like they want you there for sure.
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    GoatMom19 reacted to StHoly in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Thank you very much! I'm honestly glad that I am moving forward! I have not been in a right place before the acceptance! Congratulation on your WashU BME as well! I wish you all the best and everyone here!
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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Lol Columbia just invited me to interview for their master's program ?
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    GoatMom19 reacted to drfigue in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Extremely happy to share with you all that I will be accepting my offer of admission to the University of Pennsylvania!
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    GoatMom19 reacted to girlbui in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    WashU is a super great school tbh. Although I didn’t apply
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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    If anyone reading this has an offer at Rice they'd be willing to pass up, I would appreciate. But needless to say, unless there's a miracle, I will be accepting my one and only offer from WashU on Monday.
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    GoatMom19 reacted to Teaching Faculty Wannabe in Advice for Future Engineering Applicants   
    Hi everyone!
    I have seen this sort of forum for other disciplines, so I thought it might be nice to have this for engineering students wanting to applying to graduate school at some point. My advice would be this:
    1. Don't undervalue for GRE scores, especially your quant scores. I hate the GRE with a passion because I suck at standardized tests that are there to trick you and steal your money, but it is a part of the application process, so it is important to schools somewhat. I think my average quant score did not make me standout, but I also had other things going for me, so I don't think it is as simple as my GRE scores being kind of crappy. You just got figure out if your score is "good enough" compared to the other parts of your application.
    2. LORs are really important. Make sure they all don't say the same thing and they give details about who you are versus giving a generalized view. You can give your letter writers pointers if necessary.
    Good luck, future applicants! Recent or past applicants, please provide any advice you have!
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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Thanks for this tidbit. I'm sure I will, but I hope I adopt a similar attitude as you. It will likely become clearer since my undergraduate research has not been in my area of interest. I think I'm being picky at this point, but I'm very grateful for my one acceptance so far and would happily attend if I don't get off the waitlist at Rice. I still like to hold onto hope though...
    And I think there's something to be said about the excitement of being accepted somewhere. I think our perspectives are warped by this forum, because in reality an extremely small number of people earn a PhD. And for a place to genuinely want you to come to their school to do that is pretty cool.
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    GoatMom19 reacted to XVIIA in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    I applied last year, and I got a lot more rejections than I was expecting. It definitely stung. Even in my first year, though, I've started to realize the ways that the program I'm attending and (from a more limited perspective) the only other one that gave me an offer are more suited to me as a researcher than some of the programs that rejected me. For example, I knew what I wanted to research, but I've started to learn the nuances of that research area enough to see how I probably wouldn't have been as good of a fit for at least half of my rejections. I'm almost grateful to have been rejected, to be honest!
    A few of my past rejections still sting a bit. One program is seemingly very similar to where I am now but lower ranked/less prestigious, and my pride is still a bit wounded by that rejection. I now find myself rooting against their sports teams on principle. ? But overall, my perspective has made me realize that some of my rejections were probably mutually beneficial. Obviously everyone's experience is different. I just wanted to throw my perspective in there in case it helps someone get less discouraged about some rejections in favor of being more excited for the programs that chose them!
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    GoatMom19 reacted to sgaw10 in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    I was also pretty close to not getting in anywhere, so I'm also grateful I'm wanted at one place. And yes, we must always remind ourselves that what we do in grad school is often more important than the school itself. Maybe we'll stumble across each other at a conference or something someday. 
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    GoatMom19 reacted to WaliaIbex in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Applicant Profiles for 2019 Admission   
    Congrats on the GEM Fellowship! 
     
    Same here. I'm really happy about the school I will be attending, but it was so scary with all of that silence when I thought I wasn't going to get in anywhere this cycle.
     
    Let's make the best of it, though. We have a whole 5 (or 6) years of science to do and prove our excellence, and based on your profiles here, I'm sure we'll all do some great stuff! May all of our experiments go perfectly the first time, and all of our papers be accepted to Nature. ? 
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    GoatMom19 reacted to TheDarkOne in Favorite Rejection Quotes from the Results Page   
    Wow, bro...congratufcknglations!
     

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