To the poster below: I received an email from POI

To the USC AME admit below, how did they contact you?

Expected

Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that you have been recommended for admission to the PhD degree program in Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University. The Graduate Admissions Office will be providing you with an official notification of admission in the coming days as well as information about what you should do next if you plan on attending Ohio State. In regards to funding, we are currently reviewing applicants for funding consideration. Typically if you are being awarded funding we will make those announcements in early March. In the mean time, you are welcome (and encouraged) to contact po­tential faculty members with whom you’d like to work.

No financial support at this moment.

Dear ***, We have been getting quite a few emails on when decisions will be made for admission into the PhD program in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego. Typically, we expect to have most decisions made by mid to late February. Thank you.

Admitted with no funding! Toooo late a decision!!

Anybody got AD or Offer from this Unisversity?

MSc GPA: 3.7. No cantact with professors. iBT:101-GRE:1240. Director of the admissions committee told me no prof has agreed to work with me. He said, "it does not make sense to apply again without having a prof agreed to work wwith you."

free tuition + RA

First acceptance, though no decision on funding till now.