<p>My daughter was all for EECS but after doing research in Bioinformatics during the junior year and now got an internship in a Bioinformatics lab over the summer; so she would like to explore options for doing major in Bio informatics at the undergrad level which will mean major in Computer Science with Genetics or Health Science etc instead of Computer Science with Electrical Engineering.
Does it fall under Biomedical Engineering?</p>
<p>Class: 2009
School: Private prep
Rank: Doesn’t rank
GPA: 4.2W
Course Load: One of the toughest at school
APs: 4 in 10th grade all 5; 12 in total by senior year
10th: Chem, Euro history, Calc BC, Comp Science AB
11th: Bio, Physics C, US History, Statistics, English Language
12th: Art History, English Lit
SAT1: 2210 (770M,700CR,740W) 1st try, will retake June to increase CR
SAT2: 770 Math2c, 780 Chemistry, 730 Literature
PSAT: 226(80M,73CR,73W)
Awards:
Should be NMSF, AP Scholars (Should be AP National Scholar), JETS, Model UN, Speech, Community Service, NHS, Peer Tutoring.
Research and technical paper in Bio informatics in 11th grade. Will be doing 8 week paid internship at a Bioinformatic lab in the coming summer.</p>
<p>RPI is the place for your daughter, or maybe UC San Diego.</p>
<p>UnitID, Institution Name, SAT Critical Reading 75th percentile score, SAT Math 75th percentile score</p>
<p>195003 Rochester Institute of Technology 630 670
110680 University of California-San Diego 660 700
110714 University of California-Santa Cruz 630 630
163268 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 640 660
171128 Michigan Technological University 630 670
181394 University of Nebraska at Omaha 560 525
186201 Ramapo College of New Jersey 620 630
194824 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 690 730
196088 SUNY at Buffalo 610 650
209612 Pacific University 600 600
215132 University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 600 650
223232 Baylor University 650 660
227845 Saint Edward’s University 620 600
230038 Brigham Young University 670 680
234030 Virginia Commonwealth University 580 580</p>
<p>I think Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics are different. Biomedical Engineering does not need much Computer Science.</p>
<p>[Biomedical</a> engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_engineering]Biomedical”>Biomedical engineering - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[Bioinformatics</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics]Bioinformatics”>Bioinformatics - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Bioinformatics is a branch of computer science. It definitely does not fall under engineering.</p>
<p>I think Bioinformatics is really a grad-level major. I know a few Ph.D. level folks in this field and they all majored in CS in undergrad. And Rice has a strong CS program and great opportunities to perform research in bioinformatics with some professors/clinicians at Texas Medical Center facilities (the largest medical complex in the world right next door to campus with over 13 hospitals and 2 med schools).</p>
<p>MidwestMom – many universities have CS as part of their engineering school.</p>
<p>I would check out the biometry and statistics program in the Life Sciences college at Cornell. Your daughter has very good numbers, and Cornell offers a very nice interdisciplinary environment. She could, for instance, double major in biometry and biological engineering, or biometry and biology, or biometry and information science. </p>
<p>[Cornell</a> University - Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology](<a href=“http://www.bscb.cornell.edu/major.php]Cornell”>http://www.bscb.cornell.edu/major.php)</p>
<p>[Department</a> of Biological and Environmental Engineering](<a href=“http://www.bee.cornell.edu/]Department”>http://www.bee.cornell.edu/)</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Information Science](<a href=“http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/ugrad/index.html]Cornell”>http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/ugrad/index.html)</p>
<p>I would also check out Carnegie Mellon and the University of Rochester. SUNY Buffalo and RPI also offer good programs.</p>
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<p>It’s not quite that way. It depends on each college. At UCSD, the major belongs to Bioengineering Department. Bioinformatics involves more with computation and discovery. Probably it’s easier to differentiate the two majors by looking at the course catalog of both undergraduate and graduate programs:</p>
<p>[Bioengineering</a> Courses](<a href=“http://infopath-1.ucsd.edu/catalog/courses/BENG.html]Bioengineering”>Bioengineering)</p>
<p>[Bioinformatics</a> Graduate Program](<a href=“http://infopath-1.ucsd.edu/catalog/curric/BIOI.html]Bioinformatics”>http://infopath-1.ucsd.edu/catalog/curric/BIOI.html)</p>
<p>[Courses</a>, Curricula, and Programs](<a href=“http://infopath-1.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/courses.html]Courses”>Courses, Curricula, and Faculty)</p>
<p>When I was searching for schools with undergrad programs in “bioinformatics” I did notice that there were schools with majors knkown as biometrics, biostatistics, biomathematics. You may not be confined to schools that have a specific major called “bioinformatics”. You might be able to get the same education under a major with a different name. Worth looking into if it opens up more possibilities.</p>
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There are probably better schools than those that she can get into that has a program she wants…</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies.
How about Duke, JHU, U chicago and Northwestern? Any of these offering good program in Bioinformatics.</p>
<p>This is her updated list
MIT (Best CS as per school seniors)
Stanford (Her top choice)
Princeton (Her research teacher recommendation)
Harvard (my, her mom’s, dream)
Caltech
Yale (it was her dream prior to narrowing the major to EECS)
UCB
CMU
Columbia Fu (Recommended by Dad)
U. Penn (School’s Favorite Ivy)
Cornell (Recommended by School College counseling)
Brown (computer science) (Will Apply for PLME)
JHU
Duke
Northwestern (Will apply for HPME)
University of Chicago (Computer Science) (Another School College Counseling)
UCLA
UCSD (Will apply for direct medicine)
USC (Will apply for direct medicine)</p>
<p>If Yale was her dream then let her apply there. There is plenty of bioinformatics she can do there.</p>