A little late to this party, but after seeing the interview invites go out for Berkeley and MIT (congrats y'all!!) I decided to torture myself further by reading and joining gradcafe :))
Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): (likely) unknown state school
Major(s): BME
Minor(s): math, bioinstrumentation
GPA in Major: 3.96/4.00
Overall GPA: 3.96/4.00
Demographics/Background: US applicant, female, Asian
GRE Scores: (only sent these to one school lol)
Q: 161
V: 160
W: 4.5
LOR:
- 1 from PI whose lab I worked in fresh-soph year, took an upper-level class w/, and TA-ed for
- 1 from director/co-PI of lab I've been working in since junior year
- 1 from industry (remote) internship mentor from this summer
Research Experience:
~2 (almost full) years in optics/tissue eng lab
~1 full year HCI/autonomous vehicle
Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: no conference presentations or pubs, presented at internship virtual symposium
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: full academic scholarship, several departmental scholarships, no fellowships/grants/outside scholarships :///
Fellowships/Funding: applied to NSF GRFP, might apply to TBP or SWE ones if they're still open
Pertinent Activities or Jobs:
- clinical engineering internship during fall of my junior year
- remote internship at ~top 5 pharma company last summer
- leadership positions in SWE (president this year) and Bioengineering Club on campus, done lots of STEM outreach with them
- undergrad TA last semester for upper-level BME class
Research Interests: drug delivery and biomaterials
Institutions/Programs:
University of Utah, University of Minnesota, MIT, Berkeley-UCSF, UW, and Purdue
Comments:
Got accepted to Utah, got invited to interview with Minnesota, haven't heard from the rest :,)