MS GPA 4.0/4.0 (US).

No interviews, just an acceptance. Have to figure out who to work with at the graduate recruitment weekend.

Had been interviewed by 2 potential PIs. Received an unofficial acceptance from one of them after the interview.

Thank you, my dear professor!

UG and MS from Pakistan. 3.12 and 3.9 of 4 GPA respectively. 4 first author publications, 6 patents, 2 grants, 1 technology licensing deal, 4 years of research experience. I still think MIT was a reach and my SOP was not good enough. Wish they shared feedback though.

Checked Portal. There was no email.

Got rejected from MIT today. When should I hear back about the professional MS Design program at CU Boulder?

Expected. Pretty hard to win with MIT.

3 years of research. 1x paper, 1x conference presentation, 1x conference poster, and received 3x relatively prestigious research awards, 1x best of conference poster award. MIT was a reach regardless. One of the recommenders went to and worked at MIT for a period of time.

4.0 GPA at a top-5 engineering school, involved in several student orgs, multiple research labs, and several internships at prestigious organizations. Not sure what else they wanted.