Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering Fall 2022 Admission Results

[Bioenglover]

Hi All!

Me again :) I opened the same thread last year and ended up not applying since I decided to dedicate more time for research. 

Applications season is coming up and I would love to know which programs/schools you're considering and what are your stats. 

 

Here's the template:

 

Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): 

Major(s): 

Minor(s): 

GPA in Major: x.xx/4.00

Overall GPA: x.xx/4.00

Demographics/Background: 

 

GRE Scores:

Q: xxx (xx%)

V: xxx (xx%)

W: x.x (xx%)

 

LOR: 

 

Research Experience: 

 

Publications/Abstracts/Presentations:

 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: 

 

Fellowships/Funding:

 

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 

 

Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments:

 

Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.):

 

Research Interests:

 

Institutions/Programs:

 

Comments:

[Bioenglover]

 

Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): Undergrad: Tel Aviv University, Israel Grad: Columbia University

Major(s): Biomedical Engineering

Minor(s): N/A

GPA in Major: 3.8/4.00

Overall GPA: 3.2/4.00

MS GPA: 3.4/4.00

Demographics/Background: White female, International student, First Gen, Women in Engineering, Mom

 

GRE Scores: Not great, hoping most of the programs will not require

 

LOR: 1 from Columbia University previous PI (vice president bioengineering), 1 from current PI at Mount Sinai, 1 from undergrad PI

 

Research Experience: Undergrad - almost two years. 3 years industry experience (research), grad school thesis in biomaterials

Associate Researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine for one year - Metabolism and diabetes

 

Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: 1 oral presentation, 1 conference, 1 pending review paper, 1 pending first-author paper

 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:  none

 

Fellowships/Funding: none

 

Pertinent Activities or Jobs:  Summer internship, 3 years as a project manager at a biomed startup

 

Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: GRADSWE vice president

 

Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.): reached out to several PI - interviewed with two (positive)

 

Research Interests: Tissue and cell engineering

 

Institutions/Programs: so far considering: (all biomed)

Rockefeller University

UCLA

MIT

Harvard

UMich

NYU

Columbia University 

Edited July 9, 2021 by Bioenglover

[SpikeytheCactus]

HiiII, Thank you for creating the thread.  I am also international, so definitely wish to start early as well. Honest (brutal) feedbacks are appreciated! 

Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): Top5 Engineering in the USA 

Major(s): Bioengineering

Minor(s): N/A

GPA in Major: 3.85/4.00

Overall GPA: 3.85/4.00

MS GPA:N/A

Demographics/Background: Asian/Female

GRE Scores: good enough

LOR: 2 from undergraduate research PIs, and 1 from industry research boss (who has previously been a faculty at one of the schools I wish to apply) 

Research Experience: Undergrad - almost 3 years at two different labs: studies cancer and the other microbial metabolic engineering.  6 months industry experience in clinical sciences, currently working on individual honors thesis.  

Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: 1 publication (4th author), and 1 oral presentation 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:  Nothing major

Fellowships/Funding: none

Pertinent Activities or Jobs:  2 summer internship at a mid-cap biotech company in research position 

Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: Honor societies etc 

Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.): Recommenders are well-connected and know some of the PIs that I am interested in working with. But does it really help? ?

Research Interests: Synthetic biology

Institutions/Programs: so far considering: (all BioE) MIT, Harvard, Berkeley-UCSF, Caltech, Stanford, UPenn, BU, UW, UChicago, Johns Hopkins

Am I being too ambitious/optimistic? Thanks! 

[Bernt]

Posting this on behalf of a friend in my program; if you're interested in applying to MIT BE definitely check it out!

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[pls_take_me]

Also an international student

Undergrad Institution: Univ Wisconsin Madison

Major(s): Chemical Engineering

Minor(s): Biology

GPA in Major: 3.5/4.00

Overall GPA: 3.6/4.00

Grad Institution (masters): Top BME program

Grad Major: BME

MS GPA: 3.91

Demographics/Background: Indian/Male

LOR: 1 from undergrad PI, 1 from grad PI, one from internship boss, 2 others from from professors I have done research projects with

Research Experience: Undergrad - 2 years at wet-lab.  3 month data science research internship, 1.5 years computational biology research during masters

Publications/Abstracts/Presentations: 1 publication (middle author), 1 preprint (first author), 1 first author in prog, 2 middle author in prog. 1 national conference presentation, many in house presentations  

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:  Nothing

Fellowships/Funding: none

Pertinent Activities or Jobs:  1 summer internship at a biotech startup

Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: 

Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.):  

Research Interests: cancer sys bio

Institutions/Programs: so far considering:  MIT, Harvard, Stanford, MEMP 

 

Edited December 5, 2021 by pls_take_me

[sincerely_anxious]

Anyone heard back from Caltech? I think we are supposed to be getting emails about interviews around this time.

[xksk]

 

On 12/23/2021 at 5:11 PM, sincerely_anxious said:

Anyone heard back from Caltech? I think we are supposed to be getting emails about interviews around this time.

Yeah I heard back from caltech bioengineering around 12/21 ish for a virtual interview

[sincerely_anxious]

10 hours ago, xksk said:

 

Yeah I heard back from caltech bioengineering around 12/21 ish for a virtual interview

? congratulations!

[cilantrosauce]

I just heard back from the Georgia Tech/Emory Biomedical Engineering PhD program for their hybrid recruitment event!

Also, has anyone heard anything from these programs?
- UW BioE
- Stanford BioE
- UC Davis Biomedical Eng
- Berkeley/UCSF BioE
- Pitt BioE
- Northwestern Biomedical Eng

[JoelShaw]

I got an interview from UW madison, and the prof said it's rolling 1 and then rolling 2

Have any information about

- U Washington Seattle
- Yale U
- Ohio state
- U Maryland
- Rice U

[mothgirl]

Has anyone heard from the UCSB BMSE (biomolecular science and engineering) program? Deadline was Dec 15th but haven't heard anything since then and they didn't respond to my email asking if interview invitations had been sent out. 

 

Undergrad Institution (approx. rank/reputation in STEM): Oxford

Major(s): Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular)

Minor(s): NA

GPA in Major: 3.5/4.00 approx

Overall GPA: same ^

Demographics/Background:  international, asian, lgbt etc 

 

GRE Scores: Did not take

 

LOR: 1 from Masters project PI, 1 from a short undergrad summer internship

 

Research Experience: Um... see above. Very little

 

Publications/Abstracts/Presentations/Awards/Honors/Recognitions/Fellowships/Funding: Basically none, except some funding from my college (St Hilda's) for part of my undergrad/grad projects (see above)

 

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Also none, to be honest - none directly related to hands-on research 

 

Other Miscellaneous Accomplishments: Literally irrelevant

 

Anything else in your application that might matter (faculty connections, etc.): PI for my masters project is a famous biophysicist, but I have no connections within specific US university faculties. 

 

Research Interests: Bioengineering, biomolecular/cell biology (kind of straddling both)

 

Institutions/Programs: UCSB, UCSD + SDSU joint program, USC 

 

Comments:

[fionaapplebottomjeans]

I just heard back from UC Berkeley-UCSF's joint BioE PhD program! The virtual visit days are 2/10-2/11 and 2/24-2/25. 

Has anyone heard back from Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard, BU, Northeastern, UCSD, UVA, or UW yet?

Edited January 12, 2022 by fionaapplebottomjeans

[sincerely_anxious]

Anyone know what the post interview acceptance rate is like for JHU BME?

[qq2]

3 hours ago, sincerely_anxious said:

Anyone know what the post interview acceptance rate is like for JHU BME?

Apparently it varies by year according to this: https://bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu/?page_id=158. Also apparently the interview is kinda challenging ?

On 1/12/2022 at 5:21 PM, fionaapplebottomjeans said:

I just heard back from UC Berkeley-UCSF's joint BioE PhD program! The virtual visit days are 2/10-2/11 and 2/24-2/25. 

Has anyone heard back from Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard, BU, Northeastern, UCSD, UVA, or UW yet?

Hopkins sent out interview invites earlier today, they have 3 interviews from faculty they choose based on your research interests who you schedule with separately, virtual visit days are 1/20 and 1/22 and interviews have to be completed by the 2/4.

[sincerely_anxious]

1 hour ago, qq2 said:

Apparently it varies by year according to this: https://bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu/?page_id=158. Also apparently the interview is kinda challenging ?

Hopkins sent out interview invites earlier today, they have 3 interviews from faculty they choose based on your research interests who you schedule with separately, virtual visit days are 1/20 and 1/22 and interviews have to be completed by the 2/4.

Thanks for letting me know ? btw, were all the profs who are interviewing you relevant to your research interests/background? Only one of mine is. The other two seem totally random which is weirding me out. 

[qq2]

26 minutes ago, sincerely_anxious said:

Thanks for letting me know ? btw, were all the profs who are interviewing you relevant to your research interests/background? Only one of mine is. The other two seem totally random which is weirding me out. 

Just messaged you!

[pls_take_me]

just got a Stanford interview. anyone else? anyone know how to prepare?

[fionaapplebottomjeans]

7 hours ago, sincerely_anxious said:

Thanks for letting me know ? btw, were all the profs who are interviewing you relevant to your research interests/background? Only one of mine is. The other two seem totally random which is weirding me out. 

Got the JHU interview as well, and one of my interviewers is also totally random! 2/3 were listed in my SOP, but my last interviewer has nothing to do with my specialization. Maybe they are trying to get a more balanced perspective by introducing reviewers unrelated to our research interests?

[cilantrosauce]

8 hours ago, pls_take_me said:

just got a Stanford interview. anyone else? anyone know how to prepare?

Yeah I did as well. Do you know how many people they interview/accept? 

Edited January 20, 2022 by cilantrosauce

[pls_take_me]

no idea. trying to find out

[sincerely_anxious]

10 hours ago, fionaapplebottomjeans said:

Got the JHU interview as well, and one of my interviewers is also totally random! 2/3 were listed in my SOP, but my last interviewer has nothing to do with my specialization. Maybe they are trying to get a more balanced perspective by introducing reviewers unrelated to our research interests?

I was wondering the same! Seems like many people are getting interviewers unrelated to their background. Thanks for letting me know, and good luck!

[sincerely_anxious]

anyone heard from MIT BE?

[chemicalbiology]

13 hours ago, sincerely_anxious said:

anyone heard from MIT BE?

no, website says decisions are sent out late january/early february 

[sincerely_anxious]

2 hours ago, chemicalbiology said:

no, website says decisions are sent out late january/early february 

so presumably no formal interviews before decisions?

[mt_etna]

Any updates from MIT BE? Should someone call a welfare check on the admissions committee?

Edited January 27, 2022 by mt_etna