Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): UConn (T25 public)
Major(s): Biomedical Engineering
Minor(s): French; Physiology and Neurobiology
GPA in Major: 3.510/4.0
Overall GPA: 3.567/4.0
Demographics/Background: White, domestic, female
GRE Scores:
Q: 160 (72nd %ile)
V: 160 (85th %ile)
W: 4.5 (80th %ile)
LOR: 1 from research supervisor, 1 from my hall director (2 years supervising me as a senior RA), 1 from senior design advisor/professor I TA for
Research Experience: Neuropsych lab since January 2019, pharmaceuticals HTS internship summer 2019, canceled stem cell internship summer 2020
Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: no conferences but I did present a poster in our undergrad research expo Fall 2019 on my lab work
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Nu Rho Psi National Honor Society in Neuroscience
Fellowships/Funding: none
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: BMES, SWE, UCSD virtual REU, Phi Sigma Rho National Sorority, 1 year as an RA and 2 years as a senior RA
Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: senior design project in a tissue engineering-adjacent product (used with an engineered graft)
Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.):
Research Interests: tissue engineering, regenerative medicine
Institutions/Programs: UCSD BE PhD, UMich BME PhD, UF BME PhD, UConn BME PhD, VT/Wake Forest BME PhD, Duke BME PhD
Comments: I didn't reach out to any PIs and only submitted GRE to Duke due to costs