After careful review, I regret to inform you that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is unable to take favorable action on your application to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The number of promising applicants well exceeded the number of offers of admission we can make for the 2021-2022 academic year. I know that this decision comes as a disappointment. Unfortunately, enrollment of new students is limited to a small fraction of those who are qualified for admission. I want to assure you that your application received full consideration by faculty members in the program to which you applied. We appreciate your interest in the Graduate School and wish you success in your future studies.

1 year of undergraduate research exp., 1 first author paper. Standard small school mail.

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TTPBs: Only small portion of students are funded (via fellowship) without advisor. Majority of students have to seek their advisor before accepted. However, this is not just the case in TAMU ME or AE. Most of the grad school is same like this.

sad notice but I expected as my research interests do not perfectly fit with the department research. "Thank you for your application to the graduate program at the California Institute of Technology. After carefully reviewing your application, the faculty has decided that they are unable to grant you admission. As you know, Caltech is a small school and as such we are able to admit only a small percentage of the applicants who apply each year. In many cases we are unable to offer admission to highly qualified candidates because of limited space and facilities, or because interests don't perfectly fit with the needs and research focus of our faculty. Your record and qualifications are very good, and we have no doubt of your ability to earn an advanced degree and that you will have a successful career. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors."

TTPB I'm the same poster with the acceptance. The funding was a departmental fellowship so I still haven't been in contact with any professors. I don't even have any good research interest matches in the department so I'm declining the offer. Might have been a special case (idk how many fellowships they give out) but it's not impossible to get in without contact.

ttpb: I kinda agree with the first poster. Based on my conversation with the department, TAMU will offer admission if there's any professor who is willing to FINANCIALLY support the student. So contacting professors prior is sort of a must. Maybe in your case, there was a demand and the professor found you as a good match.

Contradicting the post below about TAMU. I applied the day before the deadline (January 15th I think) and got accepted with full funding for 5 years a little over a week later. I never contacted any professors (or any office staff or administrators) at TAMU and have no connection to the university. In my case, they made the entire decision based on my application because that's all they had to go on.

College of engineering graduate scholarship

Had an interview 3 weeks ago and notified by PI, recommended for the RA position.

For those still waiting on Penn state decisions. I received this email message today. I hope it gives you some hope. Graduate program coordinator: The majority of applications for Fall 21 have not yet been decided, and I expect the admissions committee will finalize their decisions within the next week. You will receive an email from me once the committee has reviewed your application and made a decision.

To all my fellow TAMU ME PhD applicants - if you are still expecting decision from TAMU, it is a waste of time. From what I have heard, TAMU doesn't give admission unless a professor commits for funding. For professor to commit, you need to contact professor and he has to like your profile before applying. All of our money is lost in vein. Future applicants make sure you find a professor who agrees to fund you before you apply to the program. Ps:- This information is based on what I have heard from my friends. If you have solid proof that it is not true, respond.

Got a letter in the mail stating I was rejected from their master of engineering in mechanical engineering program. This was my safe choice, but in the end it worked out because I got accepted to my first choice program. Guess you can never know.

Declined acceptance.

Got admitted to their MSME professional masters program. I'm assuming its easy to get accepted because they made a decision within 3 weeks and it was over the holiday break as well.

Invited to the virtual event

1 full year of work experience as engineer after graduating with degrees in physics and economics