Mechanical Engineering Graduate School Admission Results

TTPB: congrats! Just curious, did your POI tell when the second wave of decisions will be sent out from the grad office?

ttpb: what was your area of concentration if I may ask?

Email from POI. Attended Preview Days

Received an acceptance Email with full funding and stipend. Applied directly after undergrad so wasn't expecting this. (0 pubs, 1 year research, 3 strong LORs, couple of internships, Interest Area - Controls and Robotics)

Received an acceptance Email with full funding and stipend. Applied directly after undergrad so wasn't expecting this. (0 pubs, 1 year research, 3 strong LORs, couple of internships, Interest Area - Controls and Robotics)

Prior contact is required for international students. I didn't make any contact with the faculty, which is the major reason for rejection.

TTPB: Congrats for your acceptance. Could you share your profile, if it is possible?

I had my midterms today. I should have known that the virtual event was a pure waste of time before spending 2 hours for it. What a waste! Penn could have done better! All they wanted was publicity. To future applicants, DO NOT ENTER THE VIRTUAL EVENT! IT IS A PUBLICITY STUNT

To the person waitlisted for Arizona State Univ asking for my profile- Hi! Gpa 7.94/10, GRE Q159 V152 AWA 3.5, TOEFL 102 One international paper- another one on its way! Moderate to high extracurricular involvement, three strong LoRs. All the best!

TTPB: They did say 13 new PhD admits. Wasn't clear if it was for Fall '20 or '21. Either way it wasn't helpful and an absolute waste of time. Basically info anyone could get from looking at the webpage you should be happy you didn't attend. They did say you should assume you are still in the running till April 15th or you get a rejection which is just BS.

Missed the event today, can anyone let me know what happened during the event? I saw someone posted 'New MEAM Ph.D. students: 13', is this real? They only admitted 13 new PhD students this year??

This was a horrible thing to do to the applicants. Shame UPenn!

TTPB which said: 'Ttpb: There's no way that they would do that... would they? Seriously, would they have a meeting to just show the attendees what they're going to miss? If so, why not hold this earlier before any admits were announced?' Sorry to say that's exactly what they did!

I feel bad for the people who dressed up and wore suits for this thing. Such a waste of time. i couldn't stop laughing when i say 300+ attendees. Definitely makes Penn not look as good now just getting people's hopes up for nothing.

As expected, today's virtual invitation was a total waste of time. - seconded on that!

As expected, today's virtual invitation was a total waste of time.

Got the acceptance mail in the Ph.D. program, but need to reach out to the professors for funding opportunities.