It was a long wait, finally recommended for admission!

TTPD who haven't received any funding letter. when did you submit your application? can you share your profile?

*no wait listed* Has anyone heard back from the uni ? Only PhD admits/rejects are out I suppose !

I did not get a funding letter yet from the mechanical department

TTPB: hey that means you're accepted. Congrats! envy you

Finally, the generic rejection letter is here. I thought I did a good job on writing my SOP, but it obviously didn't matter. I probably shouldn't have chosen the most popular Prof. as my interested faculty - maybe that added to the difficulty of getting in. Congratulations to who got in!

I regret to inform you that your application for admission to the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Mechanical Engineering for Fall 2021 has been denied

MEng program in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design. Originally applied for the MS but it looks like they aren't accepting terminal MS candidates this year, so I switched consideration to MEng

Hey y'all! I made a forum for us to connect, probably easier than here! It's called "UC Berkeley MS/PhD or PhD Mechanical Engineering Program 2021." Hope to see you there! :)

(Ignore the waitlist) Did anyone apply to the MS/PhD program? There is no update on my application page. I believe that's a rejection.

Thought I had a good chance after getting into the programs at USC and Columbia, but its all good. Good luck to everyone!

TTPB: Is there anyone who knows what "recommended for admission" means? What is the difference between that and just normal admission?

TTPB: (I think we'd better move our discussion to the forum) My guess is: works in universities are just not that well managed as we thought. The director of admission might have told the person to "send those rejection next week plz", and he/she might just decided to take another 2 days off and pretend haven't seen that. Or, a professor who was asked to make a decision was just busy writing papers and keeps forgetting about it. In short conclusion, it's really the least important thing for them to send a rejection letter to a already rejected student...

TTPB: I agree with you, we are competing for a small number of spots. However I'm a bit confused because I was neither rejected nor waitlisted yet, whereas some people were already rejected or informed of waitlist. Why do you think some students weren't put on a waitlist even though it's likely we are competing for the spots that other students deny?

TTPB: Still waiting here. Well I think we need to have a reasonable expectation. At this point the thing is pretty obvious: we are basically waiting for admitted students' rejection to get into. Who will reject a PhD offer from Berkeley? Most likely it's someone who has better offer at schools like MIT or Caltech. Since those schools are more selective than Berkeley, it's natural that only a very small portion of the admitted students will do that decision - plus, there are tons of people like you and I are competing for this small opening. Anyway... good luck to all people out there still waiting!

Anyone still waiting on decisions?

I still did not hear anything from TAMU. Neither did I have an interview. Are there any acceptances yet to come or is it too late now?

Got interviewed at early January. I have already accepted another school. I was going to reject CMU anyways.

Looks like a lot of waitlisted results are out. Most probably it will be a rejection for me.