The ME department accepted me 3 weeks ago. Still haven't received the official letter. They said all international applications go through "an audit" and it hasn't been completed yet in my case. Does anyone know how long this "audit" takes?

I guess my SOP is the reason for my rejection. No gre

One suggestion to the prospective international student is that do not apply here without GRE

No GRE

Had an interview with a professor on 3/25. Received an offer of a research assistantship . Got recommended by prof for d-PhD, waiting for grad dept's formal admission now.

Interviewed.

2 first author publication with one in Chemical Engineering Journal (CEJ) (IF:16) 1 second author 1 first author under review in CEJ 1 patent 10 conference papers

Got rejection with an offer for master degree (without funding of course). I'm from Koc University. Had two first author(Q1), and two second author article submissions. Presented my recent research at the APS DFD which is the largest organization in my field. One of my reference was strong. Have a 2.5 years research experience at the same lab, and three months at MPI for Intelligence Systems. No interview.

Got into an IVY and some top 20 uni for mech. Still got rejected from UCSB which being my safe uni. I dont know why they rejected me. Doesnt matter anyway got into the uni I wanted.