Mechanical Engineering Graduate School Admission Results

3.33 GPA, 2 internships, 2 strong recommenders.

I emailed their GPC asking about the admission decision on Jan 27 and she replied that whether she would put a request to expedite my admission review or not. I told her to expedite my admission review and after 2 weeks I got TA offer and the offer letters were in the spam box. Best of luck to all the candidates!

Math major who took some engineering courses. Good GPA in Math/Physics/Engineering classes definitely helped me, along with strong LOR from my engineering department.

No interviews. Haven't contacted anyone before applying. Received full financial support through teaching assistantship.

Are people hearing back from this program? The delay in results this year seems pretty unusual.

sorry to inform you that you will not be offered admission to the Cornell University's Ph.D. program for Fall 2021. We are able to admit only about 10% of our applicant pool in the combined fields of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. While recognizing that we must deny many qualified applicants, the faculty endeavors to choose applicants they feel are the most appropriate match for our program. We wish you the best with whatever next year brings.

After careful review, I regret to inform you that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is unable to take favorable action on your application to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The number of promising applicants well exceeded the number of offers of admission we can make for the 2021-2022 academic year. I know that this decision comes as a disappointment. Unfortunately, enrollment of new students is limited to a small fraction of those who are qualified for admission. I want to assure you that your application received full consideration by faculty members in the program to which you applied. We appreciate your interest in the Graduate School and wish you success in your future studies.

1 year of undergraduate research exp., 1 first author paper. Standard small school mail.

TTPBs: Only small portion of students are funded (via fellowship) without advisor. Majority of students have to seek their advisor before accepted. However, this is not just the case in TAMU ME or AE. Most of the grad school is same like this.

TTPB I'm the same poster with the acceptance. The funding was a departmental fellowship so I still haven't been in contact with any professors. I don't even have any good research interest matches in the department so I'm declining the offer. Might have been a special case (idk how many fellowships they give out) but it's not impossible to get in without contact.

ttpb: I kinda agree with the first poster. Based on my conversation with the department, TAMU will offer admission if there's any professor who is willing to FINANCIALLY support the student. So contacting professors prior is sort of a must. Maybe in your case, there was a demand and the professor found you as a good match.

Contradicting the post below about TAMU. I applied the day before the deadline (January 15th I think) and got accepted with full funding for 5 years a little over a week later. I never contacted any professors (or any office staff or administrators) at TAMU and have no connection to the university. In my case, they made the entire decision based on my application because that's all they had to go on.

College of engineering graduate scholarship

Had an interview 3 weeks ago and notified by PI, recommended for the RA position.

For those still waiting on Penn state decisions. I received this email message today. I hope it gives you some hope. Graduate program coordinator: The majority of applications for Fall 21 have not yet been decided, and I expect the admissions committee will finalize their decisions within the next week. You will receive an email from me once the committee has reviewed your application and made a decision.

To all my fellow TAMU ME PhD applicants - if you are still expecting decision from TAMU, it is a waste of time. From what I have heard, TAMU doesn't give admission unless a professor commits for funding. For professor to commit, you need to contact professor and he has to like your profile before applying. All of our money is lost in vein. Future applicants make sure you find a professor who agrees to fund you before you apply to the program. Ps:- This information is based on what I have heard from my friends. If you have solid proof that it is not true, respond.

Got a letter in the mail stating I was rejected from their master of engineering in mechanical engineering program. This was my safe choice, but in the end it worked out because I got accepted to my first choice program. Guess you can never know.