Kyle the Doctor*

Was informed by email this morning that I've been accepted to the JHU BME PhD program!! Anyone else who went to the JHU interview weekends and hasn't heard back quite yet--don't worry, they're apparently sending out official decision letters in the next few days :).

Not yet. There are two interview weekends, one in mid-February and one in late February.

I applied to the PhD program for I believe it was a Dec 1st deadline. Sorry to hear you haven’t been so lucky ? I hope you end up hearing back soon!

I got the same email! Congratulations!

Thanks for the assessment, and sorry for the very late reply. A couple are through mutual connections through my PI, one is from an REU, and a lot of them are from conference networking at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this year. Also, to update, I actually only ended up applying to: Duke - Neurobiology USC - Neuroscience University of Washington - Neuroscience University of Chicago - Computational Neuroscience Stanford - Neuroscience Princeton - Neuroscience UCSD - Bioengineering Johns Hopkins - Biomedical Engineering I have received interview invitations from Duke and USC with no other communication, so I suspect rejections from UW, Chicago, Stanford, and Princeton. Here's hoping my admittedly scattered research will be enough to get noticed by JHU and UCSD!

I'll bite! Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): R3 Liberal Arts University (top 100 engineering for non-doctoral institution) Major(s): Bioengineering (conc. electrical), Applied Mathematics Minor(s): Data science, possibly physics (if I stomach a required course next semester) GPA in Major: 3.98/4.00 / 4.00/4.00 Overall GPA: 3.96/4.00 Demographics/Background: White male, lower-middle class GRE Scores: Q: 169 (96%) V: 159 (83%) W: 4.5 (82%) LOR: 3 strong recommenders from those I have done research with, 5 more potential strong recommenders from courses/advising Research Experience: Bioelectrical Systems Research .....................November 2017 - May 2018, January 2018 - June 2019 Independent Research (Graduate Credit) ............................................June - December 2018 Undergraduate summer research, REU ....................May - August 2017 Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: PUBLICATIONS One second author publication in Neuropsychologia, published 2018 PRESENTATIONS one major conference presentation three minor conference presentations Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Barry Goldwater Scholarship...................................................................2019 [Highest non-application institutional scholarship] ....................................................................... 2015-present Dean’s Honor Roll*..........................................................................2016-present Summer Research Opportunities Program grant..........................................................2017 Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honor Society) ....................................................... 2018 Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)...........................................................2017 Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor Society)..........................................................2017 *=Institutional recognition Fellowships/Funding: Applied to NSF GRFP Applying in the future to DOE CSGF Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Intern doing software engineering/data science at Intel corporation for the past 4 months (co-op) Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: Wrote a fairly lengthy paper (50 pages) on numerical methods for solving differential equations One unpublished, original paper (inconclusive results, haven't had time to finish things up and justify attempting a journal submission) Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.): I have personal faculty connections at (*=mild, **=strong, ***=excellent) Harvard* Duke** USC* UIUC*** University of Chicago** University of Connecticut** Princeton* UC Berkeley** Johns Hopkins University* I have taken several courses not a part of my majors out of interest Computational, thermal, and quantum physics Classical mechanics Neurobiology (Graduate level) numerical methods class Research Interests: I have a great interest in studying mathematical models of neurobiological phenomena and how gleamed understanding may be applied to the creation of brain-computer interfaces. I have wide cross-disciplinary interest in bioengineering, neuroscience, applied mathematics, and biophysics Institutions/Programs: Comments: I have been very serious about pursuing a PhD for the past few years, so I have gone out of my way to do as much research as I can, get good grades, and in general not screw things up as I feel I did in my undergraduate application process. I unfortunately have the attention span of a mouse, and so a lot of my research and interests are in different disciplines, so I feel that my general academic persona may suffer from a lack of coherent direction. I do feel however because of this that I have the potential to be a strong interdisciplinary pplicant in several areas, and I hope that shines through in my applications.