LonelyPoet1

The interview day starts off with a night of food and drinks and just getting to meet the other applicants and current BME students. The next day is reserved for tours of campus and labs and interviews with grad students and professors, which depending on which lab you are interviewing for could be 7 hours of 5 hours total. That night, they have drinks and dinner again and you get to drink with all the people that you interviewed with. I think that the most exciting thing really was hearing all of the amazing benefits and awesome things there are at Duke. I really liked it, so I've already made my mind up that I will be attending there next year. Good luck!

Just got accepted to Duke!!!!!!!!

Has anyone been accepted at Duke? I interviewed there last weekend but I just want to know when people are hearing back?

I called Janice at GaTech and she said all of the acceptances would be sent out by the end of this month. I'm not sure whether this means they have all been sent out by now or they are just waiting, but I too am anxious for GaTech!

I think that when you get to that caliber of school, then either one realistically is going to be seen as a high quality degree. If I were you, I would visit each campus/PI and see what you think will truly fit your interests better because you will most likely get very different experiences from each school, but you would benefit greatly from either school

I think that the general ranking of a school also matters to employers, mostly because they might know the name over other schools that are good only in a certain area. An example is in plant and animal sciences, where a school like Oregon State University is higher ranked than Yale, but overall, Yale is a more recognizable school, so it might be better to go to Yale.

Does anyone know how Gatech admissions work? I applied to the bioengineering program through ChBE and I am starting to worry since it's getting late into the admission cycle

While I'm nervously waiting alongside all of you guys, I might as well share my profile too... Undergrad Institution: State University (Not super well ranked (~140 in undergraduate institutions), but the engineering department is decent. #78 in engineering grad schools according to US News....) Major(s): Bioengineering Minor(s): Chemistry GPA in Major: 3.97/4.00 Overall GPA: 3.98/4.00 Demographics/Background: Asian, Male GRE Scores: Q: 168 (94%) V: 158(80%) W: 5.0 (93%) LOR: 1. Thesis Mentor, should be very good. 2. Professor I've taken 5 classes with, really good. 3. Professor I worked for and took a class for, should also be very good. Research Experience: 3 years in a biomaterials lab research studying surface chemistry and genetic engineering for protein immobilization, 1 year NSF funded REU at a small start up business studying electrochemical deposition, 6 month co-op at large biotech company studying fluorescent scatter and high speed imaging of red blood cells in a cytometer Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: 2 publications in preparation (2nd author), and 1 publication in ECTS (not super relevant, but still published right?). 1 Poster at a national conference and 1 poster at a regional conference. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Presidential Scholarship from my school, Engineering scholarship, Orchestra scholarship, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, received a competitive internship at my school for first year research Fellowships/Funding: N/A Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Reserach assistant, Co-op intern, orchestra member Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: N/A Research Interests: Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Therapeutic Protein Engineering Institutions/Programs: Duke BME PhD, UCSF-UCB BIOE PhD, GaTech BIOE PhD through ChE/Biomolecular, UWashington BIOE PhD, Imperial College London BME MSc, EPFL BIOE MS, ETHZ BME MS Comments: I'm really nervous about the fact that I only applied to top schools, and I am considering applying to Rice, Brown and WUSTL for BME M.S later if I don't hear back by March 1st.