[Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering - PhD Application Profiles for Fall 2018 Admittance]

Undergrad Institution: Univ. of Georgia

Major(s): BioEngineering, Biomedical Emphasis, Biomechanics Track

Overall GPA: 3.52/4.00 (once grades are submitted for the current semester next week
Demographics/Background: female, Asian
GRE Scores:
Q: 160 (76%) on the low end but not horrible
V: 159 (83%)
W: 5.0 (93%)

LOR: 

1.) PI at NIH

2.) Dean of Engineering College here

3.) Asst. Prof
Research Experience: 

1 year in computational lab (lung biomechanics), 1 summer in computational lab (lung biomechanics) & biomaterials lab, Summer intern at NIH (wet/dry systems neuroscience lab), all of this year in computational lab (cardiac mathematical modeling)

Publications/Abstracts/Presentations:

1 publication under review (4th author), 1 conference proceeding (2nd author), 1 abstract under review (first author)

a few abstracts just for research presented on campus, first author

writing Honors Thesis this year

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: 

NIH Summer Intern, offer for Air force Research lab that I declined

Fellowships/Funding:

Applied for NSF and DoD 

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 

Tutored Math for a Year

Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments:

President of Biomedical Engineering Society at UGA for a year

Research Interests:

systems modeling and simulations, mechanobiology

Institutions/Programs:

GATech, Rochester, Rensselaer, UConn, Brown, UPitt (applied for pHD in computational modeling here, but looking at profs in BioE dept), Clemson, UGA, U Wisconsin Madison, VTech/Wake Forest Joint Program, Northeastern U

 

Comments:

I already submitted by apps, but my grades for this semester are out in a couple weeks and they will bring my GPA up, should I try to send them to admissions offices? 

Or should I wait for that journal article I'm a co-author on to go through the pipeline first before reaching out to schools?

When do we hear about interviews?

 

What are my chances? I am worried that my GRE and GPA are on the lower end, but I know I have good research XP (esp at NIH), but I wish that journal article had been published sooner