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I applied to UC Davis, U Iowa and UMN as safety. What abt you? hug: are you an international applicant? Good luck with the interview

that is amazing! congratulations!!!

hey i was just reading through these posts and was surprised to know that UW has already begun sending out rejections. I mean they have recruitment weekend on the 31st and it appears strange to me that they would send out rejection letters without even meeting these so called top applicants. what if some of them are total losers? Or what if some of them never accept the admission offer? Does that spot just go empty for the entire yr?

ive always been a bio person as far as i can rem. i have a biochem enggg degree as well. i'd like to think of Che as the advanced plumber's life! No attachments what so ever! what bme field are you interested in hug? btw i did get some i'm really not interested in you email replies as well. I guess u learn to live! one of them wanted to speak to me in person, without an admission decision - ( at my own expense?) what do u think I should do?

wow!!! it almost sounds plausible! I'm pretty sure thats how it functions, but my prof told me that it also depends on the person. he is in the admission committee for grad school and he said he begins reading the SOP. WHen he gets a feel for who the candidate is, he looks at the numbers (GRE/GPA). If for some reason they dont match up, (interesting SOP, not so great scores), he tells the committe that they should interview the person and find out more. However he did warn me, not everyone does it the same way. i personally think its a big BAD gamble!!

surprise surprise. he did email me back. dont know what to make of it, it was mostly neutral: we usually take ME or BME undergrads ( i'm ChE) blh blh. He wasnt totally discouraging, infact said if my interests matched it could be a 'good fit'? what do i make of that? oh btw anyone interested to know that BU will not be sending invites until mid Feb. so the waiting continues

Duke/Stanford/BU/Pitt/UMN/Purdue dunno where i'll get in!!!! what sorta BME are u in for? mine weremostly biomechanics

hmmm no i think otherwise. remember when we applied they asked us to list faculty we want to study under? We'll if you really like their research and email them,you have planted a seed in their minds!! i mean they are human after all. so when they sit down and review applications and see ure file and like u : VIOLA! of course all that is wishful thinking. but as hug said, i dont think it would hurt. even if it might improve chances by .1% why not take the risk of an invite!! where all have u applied bme_dude?

when do engineering majors begin to hear back? Do PhD ppl hereback sooner?

have u heard back from purdue yet? I applied to their BME program as well and only got an email saying they would send out invitations at the end of this month ( only 10 more days!!!) where else did u apply?

hmm thanks. I'll keep u posted on the good news ( an optimists view) where did u move to after US?

hey hug so i did send my second prof email today. quick question though - do u just bluntly ask: would u look at my application personally? I mean all i really wanna say to to them is : DUDE GO SEE MY PROFILE: I LOVE URE LAB/WORK, LOVE ME BACK!!! but really is there a more round about way of saying that? I had sent Duke on the Nov 15 deadline and they are taking forever. oh and no Im from good old MN ( brrr)

hey hug30, so u heard back frm UCberk? Are u a biomed person too? Where all did u apply? (if u dont mind my asking!) I am beginning to loose faith. This whole process is so long. I was thinking of emailing the profs, but then I thought- dont they get a zillion similar emails? Whats the point? I applied to Pitt/ Duke/UMN/Purdue/UC Davis/Stanford/BU. I dont know if they conduct interviews, seems like they do have recruitment weekends though. good luck with ures..

thanks from a fellow minnesotan.. PS: i beg to differ, but BME is very little LIFE SCIENCE and still VERY much engineering:) hope its not as cold in your side of the world as it is here..

ouch that hurt! i'm biomedical engineering.. and uptil now had considered belonging to the engineering cult LOL..

As of right now, i hate my life!!! Diagnosed with senioritis, infused with immese insecurity and plaged with the worst form of restlessness - i cant even curl any more:( ive read so many posts on this site, but still havent found a niche for Fall 08 BME prospective applicants. any of you out there? Its about that time of the year, that we get together and discuss who's called whom! It will most def suck, but might as well know right? I applied to 9 schools, a lot of them amongst the top tier, but am not really sure when these people begin making calls or sending emails. It doesnt help that I check my own inbox almost every 10 minutes. Any one out there, whose heard from BU/Pitt/Duke/Stanford/ and all those wonderful biomedical schools! I wish I knew more of how their system worked. How do they decide, I mean really - do professors just pick who ever seems to fit their interests? I was told once that if you said you wanted to work with some big shot in the department, with really hi - fi research, you probably have zero to no chances of getting in, cuz if he doesnt like you - u missed your chance at that school! Sucks eh! Anyhow.. just wanted to know whether fellow BMEs were the in the boat as I. We should paddle together... sigh*

I think it depends on the type of school. I submitted all my applications by Dec 20, even though I had some later deadlines. The schools sent me an email after chritsmas saying that the department had begun reviewing my application. (Does reviewing mean - begun looking at it?). Well in that case, yes I think it did matter that my application was in before the Jan 15 deadline.

Does 'science' entail engineering? I'm curious and nervous at the same time. I have a couple of friends who are pure science majors and they have heard back from schools. This really made me nervous. I had a couple of Nov deadlines and I STILL havent heard from any school as yet. Same boat as described above, I check my email almost every 10 minutes. Does anyone here know of engineering majors who have heard back? I wonder if it matters if you applied for a masters or PhD. I mean would they first want to get in all the doctrate kids and then think about the masters?