Waitlist email from ME committee. If you know you will go elsewhere or reject the offer, please notify them early as it might help people like me :)

3 publications (3x corresponding author). Peer-reviewer. 3x waitlisted by Purdue in 3 year in a row. I have lost hope in them.

Got waitlisted on February 19. They asked me to confirm by March 2 whether I wanted to remain on the waitlist.

Applied with 3.66 after 7 semesters (out of 8), applied as a domestic student with BSc. from outside US. Co-authored 3 Q1 publications, 1 first author conference.

BS GPA-3.59, MS GPA-3.87, Publications-21 (14 published, 7 under review), Job experience (3.5 years as Materials Engineer + 3.5 years as Materials Scientist), IELTS-7.0, No GRE

Got waitlisted in early Feburary, then reject. MS-thesis program.

Rejected from my second choice program. Most application materials were oriented towards MechE which is my first choice program.

Got waitlisted on 3rd Feb but got rejection notification via email that application decision has been updated

Got an email from admission committee on 4th Feb saying that you are waitlisted. But got rejected today.

Got mail from admission committee saying my application is wait listed. But today I got rejection letter in the website