Profile Evaluation: Looking for Masters in Biomed. Engineering at ETH Zurich pr TUM

[andrass11]

Undergraduate Major and College: Rising 4th year Biomedical Engineering, for privacy sake will just say it's an American college, and consistently a renowned, top 4 program in the world for my major.

G.P.A: 3.1 / 4 (Got an extremely high upward trend but probably the aspect I'm most worried about)

GRE: Verbal (161) Math (166)

Letters:

• One from my PI, very good relationship.

• One from a clinician who sponsors/consults for a medical device start-up I co-founded, very good relationship and is renowned in their field.

• One is from a professor whose course I've taken, and who has collaborated with my research lab and can vouch for my academics which might help the GPA(teaches an extremely challenging engineering grad-level course on campus, recently got an A in it), relationship isn't as strong as previous two but still strong.

Research experience: 1 year of research in mechanical engineering lab. COVID cut alot of my projects short since undergraduate students haven't been allowed in labs since early spring.

Work experience: 3-Month Paid internship for a European Medical Device company in designing/engineering catheter mechanisms and urological devices. Company is well-known in Europe. Considering possibly getting my supervisor here to write a letter.

Publications: Co-Author of two published papers (one for my research lab, and one is independent but related to my start-up.) Will try to get more but COVID might make it tough lol

Recognition/awards:

• Winner of over 6000$ in grants and business awards for start-up, featured by University Program.

• Deans list

Misc activities that might be relevant:

• Organizer of mentoring program for engineers.

• TA for fluids class and a programming class.

Research interest: Medical device design (would love something similar to my work internship), or microfluidics. ETH Zürich has a lab I'd love to work in and takes Master's students, and I will likely contact this lab and reference it in my application.

I will likely apply to other masters programs in Europe and in the US as well

 

mainly concerned about the GPA, but will it automatically count me out even if I show upward improvement?

[Gaatha Bhatia]

Hey, did you end up applying to ETH and TUM? I'm applying to both the universities for MSc Biomedical Engineering this year, would love to know your experience. Your profile looks incredible btw!