04-07-2015, 02:52 PM
Depends on the area which you would like to work on. If you got interest in chemical engineering or computational sciences (systems biology, bio informatics etc), I would suggest you to go for Penn state. Otherwise if you are more inclined to core biological field then go for NYU. If you got in NYU and penn state then I think you better go for one of them than waiting for UC Irvine. All the best