Biological vs. Biomedical vs. Chemical Engineering

cotopaxi
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 23:23:26 +0000

@wannabeBlueDevil Nice nickname by the way. Did you apply ED at Duke? Any results yet? I applied ED biomedical at Cornell, or lets call it BME from now on. Your assertion that it is new is not true. Only the undergrad program is new, but the graduate level BME has been around a long time and is listed as the #3 or #4 program, depending on the publication, only behind Johns Hopkins and Duke. I don’t think it really matters which one you chose because you don’t really start focusing on a specialty until second semester sophomore year. But, I’ll be honest, if you are unsure at this point then I think that might become obvious in your supplemental essay. They will sniff out that you are unsure of your fit and that might work against you. With it being so tough to get in, you have to convince them you know all about Cornell and what you want to do to make the world a better place as a Cornell grad. A generic essay will become obvious to them. Maybe you should chose chemical engineering and focus on a story of how you’d like to work on low cost pharmaceutical solutions for the underdeveloped world or something like that. My cousin did that and got into Columbia. Good luck.