zerozero1
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16 hours ago, Learnerbio said:
I got accepted to Cornell BME this morning !
Congrats!!! Was it an official letter?
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11 hours ago, ohboyherewegoagain said:
Hi I had my interview (it turns out it was THE interview) and just wanted to provide a lil information to anyone interested in Harvard's interview process!
So this year there are ~5000 applications for the SEAS graduate program, so really only the 3 people you list in your application will have the time to thoroughly review your materials. I was asked to give an overview of my research and then I asked some questions about the PI's research and their future directions. I was asked why Harvard in particular, and what I want to focus my graduate school research on. In late Jan the greater committee will convene to decide on your application (the council will decide your fate...) and if they like you and the PI you interviewed with likes you then you're p good! The PI said that my background for their lab's future directions so I am feeling pretty good about the status of my application, but also I realized that one of my letter writers has yet to submit their letter so I need to email them and remind them, and hopefully this doesn't hurt my chances with the committee.
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Also here are my stats and such:Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): well-regarded Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program
Major(s): Biomedical Engineering, an arts and humanities subject
Minor(s): None
GPA in Major: 3.97/4.00 (undergraduate)
Overall GPA: 3.93/4.00 (undergraduate)
Demographics/Background: Mixed-race, female
GRE Scores: 169 V | 166 Q | 5.5 W (only submitted to my freebie schools because no one cares about GRE)
LOR: 2 research mentors and one professor + department chair that I did an extended finite element analysis project with and biofluidic coursework
Research Experience: nanomaterials and biomaterials characterization, microfabrication. Also a ton of translatable academic projects in cell culturing, FEM, VICON, etc. Cancelled internship at national lab summer 2020 that I will hopefully do this summer, leading to a little more than 8 months of research before entering grad school.
Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: 3 posters at BMES, oral presentation at REU Convocation. No publications!
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Goldwater, honor societies, several awards in my arts and humanities field
Fellowships/Funding: Applied for NSF
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA for 3 courses, STEM tutor, volunteer K-5 STEM tutor,
Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: BMES executive board, president of prosthetics club, lots of STEM teaching experience and STEM outreach. Senior project in RF ablation probe design
Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.): I reached out and received replies + video calls from Harvard and Columbia PIs. Short reply from Johns Hopkins PI. Did REU at UPENN. My humanities degree will set me apart, probably? Also intensive coursework to finish double major in 4 years because I was not going to spend extra money on tuition...
Research Interests: microfabrication, organoids, neural interfaces.
Institutions/Programs:
1. Harvard
2. MIT - Biological Engineering
3. Harvard-MIT - Health Science and Technology (I am kind of a history nerd and would love to live around Boston oKAY)
4. University of Pennsylvania
5. Columbia
6. Johns Hopkins
7. Cornell
8. Vanderbilt
9. UCSF/UCBerkeley
10. Georgia Tech
Wow it sounds pretty promising based on the responses you've got! This is always a good sign. Was it J Liu that you contacted at Harvard? (Just curious, based your research interest haha; btw I am not an applicant for Harvard) Wish you luck!!!!
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2 minutes ago, Cece333 said:
Hi! Are you sure about JHU?
I saw someone posted else where (same one said about yale bme interviews). Idk (im on edge right now lol
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On 1/16/2020 at 5:50 AM, Cece333 said:
Thank you for this!!! I wanted to add a few schools. Also, do you know if all USC invitations have been sent out already?
Harvard: skype interview, unknown recruitment date
UCLA: recruitment date: 2/6-2/7
USC: skype interview
UCSD: who knows
UCB: Don’t know too much about this, rejected shit ton of applicants last year
UW: Last year notified Jan19th
Cornell: I don’t think they do interviews
Yale: nothing yet
MIT: interviews
Upenn: Jan 24th 3.7-3.9 (last year’s post)
Stanford: MID-MARCH Sent out the decision by April.
UCI
Johns Hopkins: website says interviews will be out next Monday the latest
Purdue:
Boston University:
sharing some hearsay
Harvard: skype interview, unknown recruitment date
UCLA: recruitment date: 2/6-2/7
USC: skype interview
UCSD: who knows
UCB: Don’t know too much about this, rejected shit ton of applicants last year
UW: interviews (Last year notified Jan19th)
Cornell: I don’t think they do interviews
Yale: interviews
MIT: interviews
Upenn: Jan 24th 3.7-3.9 (last year’s post)
Stanford: MID-MARCH Sent out the decision by April.
UCI
Johns Hopkins: interviews (heard someone got 2 rounds of interviews) (website says interviews will be out next Monday the latest)
Purdue:
Boston University: acceptance w/ fellowship on the results page
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6 hours ago, Cece333 said:
I received admission to BU BME today, and I am an international student.
could you reveal whether you have a US degree or not? thank you!
Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering Fall 2021 Admission Results
in Engineering
Posted · Edited by zerozero1
Congratulations! Wow you are really a strong candidate! I also see else where that someone got the MIT BE interview (not the same undergrad as yours) with interests in syn bio as well.