Graduate School Admission Results

Americanist - Phone call from department congratulating me and inviting me to visit March 16-17.

Phone call by professor. Comparativist. Funded, not sure about details, info to follow.

Phone call from a professor. My top choice!

This was expected.

the letter says ~50 candidates are on the wait list and there\'s been no openings for the wait list in the last several years. maybe i should give up on this.....

To the one who received acceptance on 19th of Feb, is it to inform you the visitation weekend on 26-28 Feb or next month 12-14 March? I just know these two visitation weekends from friends, still don't know about my result.

My dream college :-( . But it looks as though they didn't plan to take undergrads from my country.

Informal Email on Visitation Weekend, Details and Package in one week's time

First reject!

First reject!

Disappointed... My first reject this year...

To the 4 pointer below. Dont lose hope. MIT Grad Admissions are the most random things on earth. There are other good colleges, which are not so random. Apply there. Its MIT's loss, not yours.

Emailed them today.

I also graduated at the top of my class, with first author publications. Rejection always hurts, regardless of how much you prepare for it. My advice to my fellow rejects is to get your masters somewhere else then re-apply later with a stronger portfolio, and don't lose heart!

I had emailed the grad app dept regarding my result. They emailed and said that a "letter" was sent last week and will reach me later this week.

5 rejections

I'm strongly suspicious my application package is not reviewed by any professor. 3 IEEE trans. and 5 conference paper (not NIPS/ICML, but still good conference), GPA: 4.0, rank: 1/121, one best student paper award, Meritorious Winner of MCM, ...... still rejected...... What are they looking for??? MIT is downgrade itself. I will go to Cambridge anyway. Good luck guys, go another good place and produce excellent work to prove you are better than MIT students. Bless all rejected students from MIT.

I'm strongly suspicious my application package is not reviewed by any professor. 3 IEEE trans. and 5 conference paper (not NIPS/ICML, but still good conference), GPA: 4.0, rank: 1/121, one best student paper award, Meritorious Winner of MCM, ...... still rejected...... What are they looking for??? MIT is downgrade itself. I will go to Cambridge anyway. Good luck guys, go another good place and produce excellent work to prove you are better than MIT students. Bless all rejected students from MIT.