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Hey all, Today I need you guys help. It is really hard to choose one from these schools. I mostly interested in tissue engineering. Duke has prestigious professors. However, Dunham doesn't look exciting. University of Washington also has great professors. I guess Seatle is good. UC Berkeley & San Francisco are the schools have awesome reputation almost every field of science, engineering, medicine. City is great in terms of weather and biopharmaceutical industry. Upenn is not yet deicied. Can you guys give me some advices? I hope you have a great day.

Hi, guys Nowadays, I am quite confused. I got several offers of admission and interview from universities. Because of time conflict, I want to focus on just a few interview offers. Anyway, when I check US News and NRC ranking, it looks strange. UC Berkeley is number 2 in NRC but not in top 10 in US News. (My major is bioengineering.) Other universities also has quite different positions. (Maybe NRC and US News have different perspective reviewing grad schools) What can be another good ways to evaluate universities? Because I am an international student, it is hard to visit. I am specially interested in Duke, University of Washington, UC berkeley, MIT, Stanford (I have good news from some of these universities) Thanks for your Advice

I appreciate your kind reply. I understand your point. I will go for PhD option. Owing to your reply, I add my skills to show how I am equipped with professonal research experiences. Thanks again!

Hi, I'm an international student to want to pursue PhD degree in the states. I'm interested in bioengineering and I'm about to apply many great schools such as MIT, Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins, University of Washington, UCB+UCSF, Stanford, GT... Because I don't have master's degree, I'm actually not competitive enough to get admission from those top schools. (even though I have research experience and good GPA) Therefore, I am also considering applying master's degree of those university. So, I am trying to find out which universities are highly competitive. If harvard is too competitive, it maybe better to apply master instead of PhD. Do you guys have any information or know any website containing information? Thanks!

Thanks you so much!! I think you are right. professors can say more than my personality.

Hi, I'm an asian applicant. I have three professors who are going to write LORs for me. Moreover, I have a US army colonel who is willing to write LORs for me. Usually letters from professors are better, but I heard that professors do not 100 percent believe the LORs from asian professors. (I am not sure about it. I just heard.) Because a colonel is my supervisor and we spent one and half years together, he is going to describe personality. However, he may not comment my potential research ability. Can you advise me? Thank you for replying