Fully Funded Fellowship Offer.

Generic email; "I'm sorry to inform you that you will not be offered admission to the Cornell University's Ph.D. program for Fall 2022. We are able to admit only about 10% of our applicant pool in the combined fields of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. While recognizing that we must deny many qualified applicants, the faculty endeavors to choose applicants they feel are the most appropriate match for our program."

What a great day! .. Got email today at 10.26 AM EST.. BS in mechanical (ranked top 2%) have two Master's degrees from an engineering school ranked top 15 in the US (with 4/4 gpa) 2 years - TA experience — More than 1.5 years - research experience — 2 years - industry experience 2 publications (one submitted to Q1 journal) have done tons of extracurricular activities

1 Publication, 3 internships

Invited to set up interviews with three professors in the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. All three professors I had previously reached out two via email before applying on January 15th. My GPA for 3rd and 4th year (the number UTIAS cares about) is 4.0.

Received the official offer yesterday. First received an unofficial email about a week ago. Prior contact with PI, no interview

Invited to a visit day that will be on March 4th

Email from my POI to schedule an interview.

Discussed my undergrad background and the current research being performed at the professor's lab. He said that he'll be recommending the department to accept my application.