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

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.