Without financial aid, but can contact a faculty to get an RA.

Curt email from head of department. From IIT Delhi, India. Undergrad GPA 6.5/10 First result. Hoping for the best for other results

Depressed.

4 papers in international journals, 2 are first authorship, master GPA 4.0 from an american university. This is my second rejection after the one from UMN. What should I do now?

From Sharif University of Technology. Asked to contact faculty for R.A funding.

One down, five more to go! MIT, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Purdue and Michigan...

Accepted but after speaking with some grad students they told me a horror story in which their professors RA funding ran out sooner than they could complete their required courses to be ranked high enough to get a TA position in the department, nor could the other departments help since they had to take care of their own students, so they had to leave. Moral of the story: don't go to UIUC MechSE unless you get full RA/TA funding for the ENTIRE term you are there.

MS level, but can switch to PhD after 1st semester.

At this time your admission to our graduate program does not include an offer of financial assistance directly from the department

Four years of support as RA/TA

Four years of full support via TA/RA

The Graduate Admissions Committee has reviewed your application for graduate studies in the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Illinois and asked me to convey to you that they are not recommending admission to the program. I am sorry the outcome was not more favorable.

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