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Undergrad Institution: State school - Top 5 for overall engineering and biomedical engineering Major(s): Biomedical Engineering Minor(s): none GPA in Major: 4.00 Overall GPA: 3.98 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: top 5 for sure... don't know a number Type of Student: female, american, minority GRE Scores: Q: not great (didn't finish) V: 620 W: 5.0 Research Experience: >1 year in a lab at my school; 4 conference abstracts (1 of which was an oral presentation at an international conference) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: none Pertinent Activities or Jobs: no jobs, a couple honor societies / clubs Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: really strong LOR's Applied for PhD at: Johns Hopkins - BME - Accepted <- My Choice! Georgia Tech - BME - Accepted U Penn - BioE - Accepted Rice - BioE - Accepted Duke - BME - Rejected (not a good faculty match)

detonn: Which interview weekend did you go to for JHU? I was at the 2nd one (also got accepted, and have since accepted their offer).

turtleturd: Post-interview? No, I haven't.

andgc: I'll be at the second JHU interview (Mar 13). You should let me know what it's like afterwards! I'll be at the Georgia Tech one this weekend too.

waiting_it_out / the_student / rbme: I'm pretty sure Georgia Tech ACCEPTED 50-55 students last year, and then 28 enrolled. And from what I've heard, some labs here are tight on money right now... sooo... yeah. I'm assuming all 3 of you will be at the recruitment weekend? I'm going too. See you all there.

dabears: I was accepted to Rice for BME and got the same email. I think the online rec letter system must be new and they sent that email to everyone by default. My letters were sent thru snail mail (because their website said this was the only option at the time), so I just disregarded that email.

I'm pretty sure that's the only one, based on what the invite email said.

waiting_it_out: I go to GT too, so I can answer your question. The committee meets on Fridays, and I know that they were hurrying to finish things up last week. So I'm assuming that all of the decisions have been made by now. There's a possibility that they might meet one more time this week, but I'm not sure.

I went to GT for undergrad too. Maybe we know each other. Applied (BME / BioE): Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, Duke, UPenn, Rice, WashU Interviews: Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, UPenn Acceptances: UPenn, Rice Waiting: Duke I heard from JHU on Thurs (2/5), from GT on Fri (2/6), and from UPenn and Rice a little over a week ago (to give you an idea of the time frame). Does anyone know what the interviews at these schools are like (what types of questions)? And does Johns Hopkins cut back on a lot of students after the interview?