Undergrad Institution: #1 Undergrad BME Program
Major(s): Biomedical Engineering Minor(s): Research Option (required 9+ credits of research and proposal/thesis writing classes) Overall GPA: 3.14/4.00 Demographics/Background: female
GRE Scores: Q: 168 (94%) V: 153 (61%) W: 4.5 (82%) LOR:
1. Very strong letter from PI for 3 years, who publishes in science and nature regularly and is very well known in his field
2. Director of Undergraduate Research at GaTech
3. Director of Undergraduate Studies, GaTech BME department
Research Experience:
1 summer at Winship Cancer Institute (poster presentation and verbal presentation)
3 years at Emory studying Biomolecular nano engineering
Publications/Abstracts/Presentations:
1 4th author paper in editing (JACS)
1 textbook chapter coauthor on bio-sensing in editing
1 school poster presentation on my research
1 poster presentation at school Cancer Poster Festival (idea expansion on someone else's research)
Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
Georgia Engineering Foundation Scholarship
MENSA Member
Fellowships/Funding:
applied for NSF
Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments:
Run a middle and high school robotics competition in GA for minority and low income schools
Head engineering mentor for high school robotics that has advanced to the world championships for past 3 years
Very active robotics volunteer at local, state, and world levels
Local science fair and Governor's Honors Program judge
Research Interests:
Biomaterials, nanoengineering, drug delivery, DNA
Institutions/Programs:
GaTech
MIT
BU
Vanderbilt
UCSD
UCLA
UCI
UC Berkeley
UT Austin
Rice
Comments:
Super worried about my GPA being so low but hoping I at least get into a few schools. I have already reached out and connected with faculty at all of the schools I am applying to so I hope that helps some.