24 Jan 2021

University of California-Berkeley

Mechanical Engineering, PhD (S21)

Other via Other on 24 Jan 2021

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Hope these notes would help the applicants to UCB ME this year. I was an applicant admitted here before, but didn't accept my offer for some reason. But I would still like to share some of my experience. To answer questions about preview day below, the preview day is just the interview of ME Ph.D. program and during non-pandamic period, it should be a two-day on-campus interview with your chosen profs. According to my knowledge, funding is always the problem for any ME Ph.D. program, which may affect the admission process a lot. My suggestion for this program is that don't overdoubt things. I personally think people in charge of graduate admission at UCB ME are really great and care their applicants, based on my interaction with them. However, it's a fact that it might take longer for any decision to be made here, probably due to funding consideration I guess.

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