Admitted with funding, $30,995.32.

Nominated for admission, First-year fellowship stipend 30,995.32$ :)

GPA is masters; undergrad GPA 3.5. 4 years research experience, 1 first author paper with 1 more in preparation, 2 conference presentations. Research internship at national laboratory. No prior contact with PI. Emailed the grad office who said first round of acceptances are done.

MEng Program Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Energy systems Concentration. Applied on Dec 9th

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