emily.b,
CMU
B.S., Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, , Mechanical Engineering
Hi! I'm a freshman at Carnegie Mellon in the College of Engineering.
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Hometown
, New York
GenderFemale
EthnicityWhite Non-Hispanic
AdmissionRegular Decision
Class of2019
English First Language
Yes
Other Language(s) Spoken
Spanish
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Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Applied for in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
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Personal Statement636 WordsCreative personal story, Feeling out of place, Issue of personal significanceThere were plenty of places I thought I’d be by the time I was sixteen. In school? Definitely. Working at my temple? Sure, no problem. But sitting in my bathroom with a box of purple hair dye, watching in the mirror as my mother carefully painted it onto my hair? That hadn’t quite been on the agenda. Somehow, there I was, with the sickly-sweet smell of Splat! Lusty Lavender filling my nose as I tried to rub the...Read more...Supplemental Essay “Why us” school essay732 WordsWhen I was thirteen, I had an idea: I was going to learn to play the guitar. It wasn’t so much the sound of the instrument that attracted me, as the idea that putting my fingers in certain places could change the sound of the strings—I wanted to see how the guitar worked. Since then, I have also taken up the ukulele, the mandolin, and even the banjo, for the most part just to see how they differ...Read more...Additional Essay Details55 WordsFor me, it really helped to have spent a weekend at CMU. They ask for a pretty long essay-- a full page, single spaced, so it was important to have enough to talk about. That's why I worked a little bit of a personal story in there, as well as name-dropping professors and research groups.Read more...General Admissions Advice
What I’d change about my application process126 WordsFor me, as a STEM major-to-be, the most important part of crafting my applications was to make them interdisciplinary. I didn’t want the admissions committee to see me as a science robot, or someone with no emotional...Read more...Most popular extracurricular activities at my college83 WordsI've noticed a lot of people going for Scotch N Soda, the theater group which I'm a part of, but groups like Engineers without Borders...Read more...5 adjectives that describe a typical student at my school (Feel free to elaborate!)8 WordsI'd pick...Read more...My favorite course thus far, and why41 WordsI love my introduction to biomedical engineering course with Professor Chase-- it's...Read more...List of schools I interviewed with and my interview experience137 WordsCMU has an alumni interview program on campus, which I participated in. My interviewer was a computer science graduate, who told me that he "didn't like to talk to people." That made the interview itself pretty hard. He kept telling me...Read more...High School Performance
GPA4.00(no specification of weighting)RankTop 10%
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Highest SAT1560on 1600 scaleHighest SAT2300SAT Score Details
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Details8 classes and scoresSports
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