Saddened to hear On behalf of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Admissions Committee at the University of Michigan, I regret to inform you that your application has not been selected for admission to our graduate program. Many factors are considered in our admission process. These include academic potential and scholarship, as well as the number of research openings within our faculty laboratories, and achieving a balance among areas of interest in the graduate student cohort. The University of Michigan is committed to recruiting a diverse, talented student body; please note that this admission decision was not impacted by changes to national immigration policy.

Shocked!!! Was a GPA 4.0 master student in Mechanical Engineering at Umich (Also undergrad from top USA engineering program, full-time work experience in top-notch company, several pubs and patents). Key takeaways from this application (advice for future Umich admits): 1. Do not trust the downgraded master offer (admit into master instead of phd) from the umich! The master admission offer may mention you can "transfer" (change of program) into the phd program during your master, but trust me, the "transfer" process would be identical in terms of difficulty as directly application. The selectivity for the master is around 20% so the school just wanna attract the CASH from the master admits's tuitions (tuition is extremely high considering Umich is a public school). The financial assistantship are very limited for master students. 2. You must contact and secure some POI (rich POI with funding) or high chance you will be rejected (the POI makes most decisions while admission committee makes very few). I will take phd offers from other top (higher ranking) engineering school. VERY disappointment in Michigan ! ! !

Well...it's been a while. Has anyone else heard back from the phd department for meam?

I attended GEARRS. Accepted with TA funding! So excited!!!

Applied to PhD and rejected, admitted to Master's

Received an e-mail with UIN and activated the AIS account on April 1st, no decision at that time. Login back today and find the rejection.

GRE - 324, GPA- 8.84/10 Tech lead in student team, intern in company in US, 1.5 years job exp in relevant field

TTPB: Congrats for admission. Can you please share your profile and funding details? Do you have interview with a faculty or not? Thank you.

TTPB: Congratulations. Can you please share your research area and name of the professor? Did you ask prof about current situation and chances of joining fall 20 semester as international student?

Had some publication, 2 good recommendation, and a great talk with the future Prof.

MS/PhD too, didn't heard anything from the ME department yet, but i would assume a rejection since they were prefer direct PhD students in past couple years

Has anyone received any updates about the MS/PhD program? Until when will they be offering admits? I have mailed them multiple times but have not received any response.

TTPB: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/Graduate/COVID19 this might help

TTPB: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/Graduate/COVID19 this might help

To the poster below who said: "I am just writing to inform you that Purdue will defer all international students from coming this Fall 2020 unless you are already in USA." Where did you get this info from? Will they be handong out international admits at all?

I am just writing to inform you that Purdue will defer all international students from coming this Fall 2020 unless you are already in USA.

Applied late November, accepted late Jan. I think as in most unis offers have been made and now they wait out the clock until their current offer holders reply to see where they stand with their waitlists.