Undergrad institution: UC Berkeley
Major: Bioengineering
Upperdivision major gpa: 3.7
overall gpa: 3.2.... chilled too much during my 1st two years sigh...
GRE: 770Q 530V 4.5W (verbal and writing kinda suck but I only started cramming vocabs for 1 month before taking it)
Research exp: 1+ year in a tissue engineering lab, 1 year in a biomolecular/nanotechnology lab (w/ 1 publication review article)
job experience: summer intern (soph summer) at Crown Bioscience Inc. and part-time job at Wanger biotech (~2months) during freshman summer
Awards: some grants but nothing spectacular
LOR: 1 from lab prof, 1 from nanotech lab director, 1 from dept chair
Applied to: harvard duke stanford ucla ucsd columbia mit usc (all MS BME) UCB(phd Bioe) USC PIBBS(PhD)
Accepted to: Duke usc, ucla, ucsd, usc Pibbs(fully funded)
Denied by: harvard, mit, UCB, stanfurd (the way we UCB kids call them )
Pending: columbia (but probably not gonna go there at this point anyways)