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Hello all, would like your opinion on my chances of admission. Here are my stats:

 

Undergraduate institution: University of Hong Kong

 

Undergraduate major: Medical engineering

 

Undergraduate cGPA: 3.39 (Probably around 3.5-3.6 by the time of graduation)

 

GRE Scores:

165V(95%)

170Q(98%)

5AW(93%)

 

Research experience:

Semester long research paper on lab-on-a-chip systems

year long research project on robotics in Asia (probably gonna be published in 2015)

final year research project on brain computer interfaces

 

Internships:

Two summer internships at National Pharmaceutical companies in India

Summer internship at a robotics startup in Hong Kong

 

Other extracurriculars:

Competent Communicator award at Toastmasters International, a public speaking and leadership organization

Organized an event to get school age girls interested in technology to bridge gender gap in engineering

Started a student consulting group on campus

 

Scholarships:

Academic scholarship for 75% of my tuition fees

Merit based scholarship for study abroad program

 

LORs:

Two from professors under whom I have done research

One from the boss at my robotics internship

 

Applying for Ms/MEng at:

 

Stanford

Johns Hopkins

Georgia Tech

UC Berkeley

UCLA

Drexel

University of Rochester

Arizona State

UMiami

 

Research interests:

Biomedical technology development

Medical electronics and devices

Medical imaging 

Computational modelling and biology

 

PS: If it helps, I am a non-citizen and non-resident of the US

 

Feedback will be appreciated

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

Awesome stats. You have a good chance.

 

It'd help to get responses if you were actually active besides in threads that would greatly benefit only you. Just sayin'. I learned that when I first posted here a few weeks back.

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