Hey everyone! Bioengineering/BME applicant here:
Student Type: US Resident
Undergrad: US T20
Major: BS Bioengineering
GPA: ~3.5
Test scores: None
Research: 4 years synthetic biology lab research in undergrad, one very high impact and one low impact publication (co-author for both), NSF REU, multiple posters/presentations.
Other Experience: 2 years industry research in big pharma, internal posters and presentations, mainly oncology research with mix of assay development, computational biology, omics, and machine learning computer vision.
Letters of Recommendation: Undergrad PI mentor and my two most recent industry managers/mentors (both senior level scientists in pharma).
Schools I am applying to: UC Berkeley/UCSF (Bioengineering), California Institute of Technology (Bioengineering), Stanford University (Bioengineering), Harvard University (SSQBio), MIT (Biological Engineering), University of Pennsylvania (Bioengineering), Boston University (Biomedical Engineering).
Main concern is GPA and school selection, nervous but optimistic!
