To the poster below. Can you share your profile and supervisor research area etc? or can email me [email protected]

Ttpb: thats what i used to believe, decisions based on merit. May be thats true for all other schools and programs. But if you look into previous years result in gradcafe for penn state ME program you will find that there is no post of "I" or "U" decision in mid January. Not a single one. All accepted posts on mid January are "A". I know everyone doesn't post in gradcafe, but at least few of them should be there in previous years. I am not sure though. But I think thats how it works with psu me program.

There is no such thing as admissions decisions for International students being made seperately or after American students. The only thing is that usually the students who are getting in get their admission decisions first, and then based on their responses other people get offers and finally everyone else is rejected. Has nothing to do with country, everything to do with merit.

To the posts below: That is a relief to know that the international decisions are not out yet. I hope the same is the case with other places too.

ttpb: I'm a domestic student. I didn't contact anyone beforehand. My area of interest is additive manufacturing

Ttpb: inquiring about if the accepted student is domestic or international. I believe penn state me dept has released decision only for domestic students so far. I am an international student still waiting for the decision. I emailed the dept about status and they replied that I am not likely to get decision until February. God! This waiting is killing me checking gradcafe every now and then. Anyway congrats to those who have been accepted and best of luck who are waiting for decision.

TTPB: Congrats! What is your area of specialization? Are you a domestic/international student? Did you contact a PI before applying?

The offer email was in my spam folder. I checked my decision with PSU.

"UofU Mechanical Engineering Grad Expo invite" for Feb 18th

Did anyone hear back from UTA Engineering Mechanics?

You get A chance to discuss your research interests w prospective POI. Your applications a face and your chances then depend on funding availability

TTPB: When mentioning the PhD program, does this refer to solely PhD program or does it include "MS/PhD" program? Because based on my understanding, there is generally no MS program of UCB,

Admitted with College Graduate Scholarship

Hope these notes would help the applicants to UCB ME this year. I was an applicant admitted here before, but didn't accept my offer for some reason. But I would still like to share some of my experience. To answer questions about preview day below, the preview day is just the interview of ME Ph.D. program and during non-pandamic period, it should be a two-day on-campus interview with your chosen profs. According to my knowledge, funding is always the problem for any ME Ph.D. program, which may affect the admission process a lot. My suggestion for this program is that don't overdoubt things. I personally think people in charge of graduate admission at UCB ME are really great and care their applicants, based on my interaction with them. However, it's a fact that it might take longer for any decision to be made here, probably due to funding consideration I guess.

Can someone clarify what preview day invites mean? I was under the impression that there were no interviews as part of the application process.

Preview day invitation. Attempted to contact POI previously but received no reply.