I had my midterms today. I should have known that the virtual event was a pure waste of time before spending 2 hours for it. What a waste! Penn could have done better! All they wanted was publicity. To future applicants, DO NOT ENTER THE VIRTUAL EVENT! IT IS A PUBLICITY STUNT

TTPB: They did say 13 new PhD admits. Wasn't clear if it was for Fall '20 or '21. Either way it wasn't helpful and an absolute waste of time. Basically info anyone could get from looking at the webpage you should be happy you didn't attend. They did say you should assume you are still in the running till April 15th or you get a rejection which is just BS.

Missed the event today, can anyone let me know what happened during the event? I saw someone posted 'New MEAM Ph.D. students: 13', is this real? They only admitted 13 new PhD students this year??

This was a horrible thing to do to the applicants. Shame UPenn!

TTPB which said: 'Ttpb: There's no way that they would do that... would they? Seriously, would they have a meeting to just show the attendees what they're going to miss? If so, why not hold this earlier before any admits were announced?' Sorry to say that's exactly what they did!

I feel bad for the people who dressed up and wore suits for this thing. Such a waste of time. i couldn't stop laughing when i say 300+ attendees. Definitely makes Penn not look as good now just getting people's hopes up for nothing.

It seems that all the acceptance decisions have been made.....(New MEAM Ph.D. students: 13)

As expected, today's virtual invitation was a total waste of time. - seconded on that!

As expected, today's virtual invitation was a total waste of time.

Has everyone here who applied for Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. heard back from the department about a decision? Are they done notifying everyone?

Got the acceptance mail in the Ph.D. program, but need to reach out to the professors for funding opportunities.

Any NEWS?

any news on admissions?

TTPB: I also haven't received an admissions result. I was interviewed over a month ago, and I reached out to my POI/interviewer to ask if they are still accepting students, and they said yes.

Any news? Any ideas when they are going to release the second wave of decisions. I haven't heard back from them for 1 month now. So, anxious.

Can anyone confirm the Michigan is still alive? Anyone heard anything from them?

Ttpb: There's no way that they would do that... would they? Seriously, would they have a meeting to just show the attendees what they're going to miss? If so, why not hold this earlier before any admits were announced?

For those that got accepted to ME PhD (F21), did you get interviewed?

Ttpb: I believe they have invited everyone who applied at Upenn in F21 regardless of admission status. Nothing else other than a business policy.