2 years research, 1 REU in Thailand, 3 great LORs

Email stating my application has been accepted by the admissions committee and now I need to reach out to faculty to find funding

E-mail from admin. Interview on Feb 5 with informal gathering evening prior.

Phone call from POI. January 22

IIT Kanpur CSE no papers, 1 yr work experience, no fin aid.

Phone call from POI for interview on Jan 22.

I have 63% from University of Pune and 3+ years of work experience.

Anyone got it?

after 4.5 months!!!

To the Purdue poster below, I had applied for Masters and not PhD, and I still got the same e-mail saying there was no financial support available at this time and hence I should consider moving my application to spring. But it is not mandatory for Masters students to secure funding before being admitted, unlike PhD. So, I think it is a bit contradictory. To the Purdue poster on June 27, I don't think that the climate will be an issue but I totally agree with the rest of the points. I have also withdrawn my application. Spring decisions are out in Dec so there is a strong possibility that we can also miss out on deadline for Fall 16 (after looking at the delay for Fall 15) application as well, which is Dec 15 this year. So no point waiting for a decision for Spring on the same carried over application that they rejected this time. So, I have withdrawn mine.

Received email to move application to Spring 16. Sent them the following email: I would like to move my application to Spring 2016. However, I would want to inquire the following about the admission procedure : 1. Was my application was at all reviewed at any stage Or it remained oblivious to all faculty members? If it was not at all reviewed then there might be a chance that my application is not strong( although your previous mail states that -Although you were a strong applicant to our graduate program ).. 2. If I move my application to Spring 2016, will I able to add some more recommendation letters to my application. Following reply came : We have moved your application to Spring 2016. Your file is complete, so there is nothing else for you to submit. Our e-mail to you was a little misleading. As soon as you submitted your online application, it was loaded onto our database for all faculty to review, so yes, your file was reviewed. That is the reason we are reaching out to you to move your application to Spring 2016. Since you have applied for the Direct PhD, we do not admit PhD applicants without firm funding from our ME faculty. So, the Graduate Committee felt you have a strong application, but funding was not available. We highly encourage our PhD applicants to contact our ME faculty which best parallels your research interests. Unfortunately, once you submit your application online, you cannot go back into it and make changes or add items. We cannot update your file for you electronically either. My advice to you is if you contact faculty, you might want to attach any updated resume, recommendation letter, etc.

Got an email from Purdue about moving my application to Spring. Replied to them the following: I would like to move my application to Spring 2016. However, I would want to inquire the following about the admission procedure : 1. Was my application was at all reviewed at any stage Or it remained oblivious to all faculty members? If it was not at all reviewed then there might be a chance that my application is not strong( although your previous mail states that -Although you were a strong applicant to our graduate program ).. 2. If I move my application to Spring 2016, will I able to add some more recommendation letters to my application. Following reply came: We have moved your application to Spring 2016. Your file is complete, so there is nothing else for you to submit. Our e-mail to you was a little misleading. As soon as you submitted your online application, it was loaded onto our database for all faculty to review, so yes, your file was reviewed. That is the reason we are reaching out to you to move your application to Spring 2016. Since you have applied for the Direct PhD, we do not admit PhD applicants without firm funding from our ME faculty. So, the Graduate Committee felt you have a strong application, but funding was not available. We highly encourage our PhD applicants to contact our ME faculty which best parallels your research interests. Here is the link: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/Areas. Unfortunately, once you submit your application online, you cannot go back into it and make changes or add items. We cannot update your file for you electronically either. My advice to you is if you contact faculty, you might want to attach any updated resume, recommendation letter, etc.

I got a similar e-mail. After considering all the factors, I told them that I would like to withdraw my application. In my view atleast, there is no point in joining in spring as there are restrictions on the courses available for spring since most of the courses offered in spring need some pre-requisite courses which are available in fall. The funding opportunities are limited and you cannot apply for an internship in summer of 2016 since you must have completed 2 semesters at Purdue. Moreover, joining Purdue in spring will be difficult to cope with since we shift from 20deg celcius here to -20deg celcius there. Also, the intake for spring is very less and looking at the number of people posting about this mail (4 of my friends got a similar mail), looks like many have received the same generic mail, further reducing the probability of an admit along with a number of people who would be applying specially for spring semester. So, I withdrew my application. Any suggestions are welcome!

To the poster below, I have received a similar mail. Are you graduating in 2015? If yes, even I am graduating in 2015, but I have not been asked to submit any degree certificate.