Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mechanical Engineering
RejectedPhDInternational (my highest degree is from USA)
Application Details
- Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Program
- Mechanical Engineering
- Degree Type
- PhD
- Degree's Country of Origin
- International (my highest degree is from USA)
- Decision
- Rejected
- Notification
- on 15/02/2022 via E-mail
- Undergrad GPA
- 0.00
- GRE General
- Not provided
- GRE Verbal
- Not provided
- Analytical Writing
- 0.00
- Notes
- Generic rejection. 2 first author pubs, 1 at a top IEEE journal. Presentation at IROS. 3 more paper under review/preparation. MS from good (R1) university in the US. 3 LoRs, 1 from a prominent faculty with extensive history of cooperation with MIT/Draper. 4.0 grad GPA, 3.8+ undergrad. Note to future international applicants of MIT or Stanford ME: minimize your expectations. You have to compete with Americans with NSF fellowships & many research or internship opportunities during their undergrad (including at MIT/Stanford itself), and with international applicants from the "right" universities or labs. And then IMO you need LORs from people strongly affiliated with MIT/Stanford. And even then you have to get very lucky still. If you look at member s of any lab, it's obvious that it's extremely rare for someone to get accepted without ticking all those boxes which are not really in our control in the end. And don't take their empty talk of "diversity of backgrounds" seriously.
Institution Statistics
Acceptance Rate
22.8%
Avg. Notification Date
February 15
This data is estimated based on applicant submissions at The GradCafe.
Timeline
Received notification of Rejection