Graduate School Admission Results

Interview in Personal Robot group Media Lab MIT, contacted by the PI. Hold a master's from ETH in Robotics. Collaborated with Harvard lab for master's thesis. I worked with phds from Media Lab before. Strong LORs from 2 Harvard Professors and 1 ETH Professor.

I applied for the MAS program at the NCB Lab to begin in Fall 2023. Its website says that the candidates receive assignments right after getting shortlisted. In previous years, shortlisted candidates received their assignments in the first week of December. Has any current applicant received any assignments yet? No assignment till now means a rejection right?

Accepted off the waitlist and I'm accepting the offer

Wow. Finally off the waitlist after 5 rounds of interviews (3*30min + 2* one hours) with 2 presentations, I finally made it. With my mediocre undergrad GPA, been working in industry for 6+ publishing papers in top tech (FAANGMULA) to make it up, finally made it. This is 6 years of making. That 3 % admission rate is not impossible, good luck everyone, never give up, believe in yourself and you can make it. Admitted as Master (all Media accepts are master first then PhD) with funding.

Rejection Email: Thank you for your application to the graduate program in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Fall 2022. We regret that we are not able to offer you admission. We received more than 900 applications and were able to admit less than 3%. In selecting so few from a large and talented group, we must turn down many qualified applicants. We wish you the best for your future plans.

expected

I just know that I am rejected; no interview requests and an email to the PI indicated that they were looking for very few applicants this year and I wasn't the right fit.

I received an email from the PI of my first choice

A ton of research experience and papers at top conferences (1 first author, 3 other papers). Perfect GPA at Top-5 CS school. Great SOP and Rec Letters (professors with whom I conducted research). No extracurriculars really. FAANG internship.

Applied for Lifelong Kindergarten group. Bummer

2 interviews, then rejection

Got 2 interviews on January 13th.

No interview, rejection received through email

Expected

Anyone has any idea what percentage of waitlisted students are offered an admit?