behnam1

As my signature indicates I have received three admissions but I have received no funding. So, I may be forced to apply for fall 2014. Now, I have a question: how can I increase my chances for receiving a financial assistant package? Should I contact the faculty before or after submitting my applications? Should I email faculty members and try to convince them to invest on me?

If there is no "Grad Decision" tab I think they will create this when there is a decision. Yes my application was for PhD . . .

No! Decision has another tab named as "Grad Decision" right beside the "Grad Application" lacated above the page. They also update "Current Application Status", the box you may found through "Self Service" in Bozzport.

Hi, Have you heard of UT Austin funding decisions? I have three acceptances and no funding from any of them !

Thank you friend! I am still waiting for better offers specially for something like an offer from Georgia Tech. Anyway Austin is not a bad place to go . . . I hope you success in Berkeley . . .

After a long line of rejections I received an offer from Austin. What is the quality of this program? If anyone knows something about the department, I will appreciate the sharing of information . . .

It looks like that my resume was too weak that I have received my rejection earlier than others. Good Luck to all of you . . .

Well this was the Stanford turn to reject me ! not very surprising . . .

Yes ! I received an email on friday . . .

Thank you all for your comments on my applications . . .

As you can see, I have received enough rejections to run a festival. Now I am well familiar with all the forms and wordings of rejection letters. When I submitted applications I could never think about these decisions. Granted, My AW is low (3) but except that, I thought the other parts of my story were acceptable. Also, some applicants had received acceptance from these schools with low AWs like 3 or 3.5 The above quotation shows my resume and the below signiture indicates rejected programs. Among them, there is an acceptance without funding from NCSU which I have no choice but to forget about it. For the possible future applications, what do you see as my greatest weaknes? I will elevate my AW at least to 4.5 or 5 for fall 2014 applications. . .

That is really an achievement. Congratulations shiraziaseel!

Many share this feeling, like me . . .

Congrats on the Austin acceptance, efh0888!! It is about a week that my status has changed to "in review" for Austin. When did you get notified abour your acceptance there?

Someone has posted acceptance from Minnesota and another one has posted acceptance from Gatech. It seems that Georgia tech has started to send acceptance notifications . . .

I am wondering, why you have not applied for better schools, like: Berekely, columbia, virginia tech, georgia tech, or USC. I believe that you could have been admitted to at least one of these programs . . .

Not receiving an interview means rejection? In the other words can someone be admitted without being interviewed?

I applied for Advanced Manufacturing as my Areas of Concentration (First Choice) and for Supply Chain and Logistics as the Second Choice. I checked these again.

Hello, Manufacturing was my first choice.

Thank you for your reply. But I saw 4 applicants that had received their acceptance via postal service ! In the other words, these applicants first had seen a notification in the status checking as "Decision Completed" like me and after that had received their decision later via postal service. As a matter of fact I had seen before the link you provided but I wanted to see if someone has any direct experience.

Hello friends In my status checking for Georgia Tech I saw this notification: "Decision Complete". Two days ago I sent this email to the graduate school: Dear receiver You are indicating in my status checking "Decision Completed". You have posted in the FAQ section that "You must wait to receive a letter". But regarding the distance of my country from USA and some other problems , could I ask you to let me know my decision by email? If I wait for the letter, I may receive it too late (for example 2 months from now which is late for me to pursue the required tasks to attend Gatech in fall 2013) or even not receive it at all. Behnam I have received no answer. Does anyone knows what all these mean?

Thank you my friend! I will consider your suggestions. By the way, what do you think about my low AW score? Will this affect my applications negatively or my papers and TOEFL can compensate for it?

Hello guys, I have applied for PhD in Industrial Engineering fall 2013 and I want one of you to tell me my chances for acceptance: Undergraduate GPA: 3.85 (University of Tehran) Graduate GPA: 3.66 (University of Tehran) GRE: V163 Q167 AW3 TOEFL: 653/677 Two published ISI papers I have applied for these schools: stanford, columbia, berkeley, georgia tech, illinois, michigan ann arbor Has anyone any experience or insight? Please tell me my chances. I am under pressure as the time passes . . .