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I have been accepted to GT pending graduate school approval, it came in an email and a letter from the department. But my status has not been updated on buzzport. I was contacted by a professor to have a phone interview for UIUC, but have not heard anything officially from the department yet. I submitted my application mid-November, and my final LOR was submitted mid-December.

I got accepted to Purdue with no funding as well. I am pretty sure that the graduate school approval is just a formality, and you are accepted.

After I have gotten 2/5 acceptances, "So do you know where you are going to go?" Oh yes because I am going to choose before I hear back from over half of the schools and before I visit any of them.

There aren't many details about my acceptance to Purdue, they basically just said I was accepted. But, I got an email from Georgia Tech the next day saying that I am accepted pending graduate school approval, told me who my POI would be (I have been talking to him since October so no surprise there) and said that my tuition would be paid and I have a TA position for my first year to allow time for my POI to find funding for me. Then the POI responded to that email within 5 minutes to congratulate me on being accepted and that he really hopes I choose to go there!

I am in senior design and three other classes. I got two acceptances last week and ever since I am having a hard time caring about homework. All I want is to look more into the schools and my options. Now that I am finally accepted, senioritis is kicking in... And senior design is so much work.

I got two acceptances in the past two days and I really want to celebrate. I think I'm and just gonna get some drinks with friends for now, but this summer I'm buying a new laptop. I really like the idea of a hoodie from the school I choose. I am also planning a cross-country road trip with my boyfriend in June, but that is mostly to celebrate graduation. Also, after having lived in Texas for the past 9 years, chances are I will need real winter clothes...

I know that Georgia Tech and Purdue both have rolling admissions (at least in my field) and someone posted on the results page that they were accepted to Purdue in December in my program. I got my acceptance from Purdue yesterday. There is no need to worry, it is still early in the process.

The funny thing is that I had a recruiter ask me "Why aren't you going to grad school?" when he was looking at my resume DURING the interview. Granted it was at a research lab that hires BS, but have a pretty high rate of MS and PhDs.

Thank you guys so much for starting this thread! I have been trying to figure out what to give mine. My biggest problem is that one of them I worked for last summer, so he lives in another state and works on an Air Force base and I only have his work address. I think I might just send him a handwritten card, and give my other recommenders homemade fudge or brownies with a card.

Sugarmilk, I think you are missing the point. Don't think about it so scientifically. It is a play off of the saying "Shoot for the Moon" to mean when your goal is something unattainable. So it is saying that if you dream big and work towards attaining that goal, even if you mess up and don't reach it, you will still end up somewhere better than if you hadn't tried at all. One of the reasons I like it so much is that I am an aerospace engineer, and I like the moon and stars and space. Plus every time I tell people my major, they get really intimidated.

You know the acceptance process goes both ways, even if he accepts you, you still have to choose to go there so he can't be definite about things to come. I agree with everyone else that this is a great sign!

I was invited to a campus visit, but I am aerospace, not materials science.

Luckily, I am a women in engineering, so I was able to talk about being in the minority gender-wise for my Purdue diversity essay.

Actually, I have heard the exact opposite about a Masters. The increased salary you will be making once you get the masters will make up for the time and money spent earning it. The PhD is a different story though.

Thanks, Amal! cjh, did you report your recruitment weekend invite to the submit results page here?

I got one of those today, and I think interviews are not as common in engineering as they are in "fuzzier" majors

I want to specialize in structural design or materials research, with a focus on space flight. I really like deployable structures on satellites and spacecraft.

I applied to Maryland and never got those reminders after I submitted it.

I currently go to UT Austin as an undergrad and did not apply as a grad student. But, applying as an undergrad the Texas Common App was awesome because I could just copy my application to UT Austin and submit it to Texas A&M. So many people in Texas can't understand leaving Texas, so it kinda makes sense that they don't realize people outside of Texas don't care about applying to multiple schools here. That said, the Maryland College Park application didn't let me submit my recommenders until I finished the initial application and paid the fee either. Then I was free to upload my SOP. Georgia Tech didn't let me skip pages either, which was a pain. Why the hell does MIT care what books you used in every single class you have taken ever? And Purdue, they really expect you to say everything that you need to say in your SOP in 500 words, REALLY? Come on.

I agree with PhDebbie. What school is it, do you mind me asking? I currently go to UT Austin as an undergrad, and I was talking to two current grad students today and they told me that they were both invited to the recruitment weekend without being officially told they were accepted. Then in one of their first meetings with all of the prospective student and the chairman of the department, the chairman asked them, "You all know that you are accepted, right?." So you are most likely in. I would agree with the don't be an asshat though. It is never bad to leave a good impression.

I just noticed that your profile says spring 2013, are you trying to start this semester? I want to start in the fall.

I am not sure, but I applied for the aerospace programs at all of the same schools and we have similar stats. Good luck, I hope we both get in. What do you want to specialize in?

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." I find that one especially appropriate because I am focusing on satellite design. This was a good idea

Undergrad: UT Austin, Aerospace Engineering (Top ten for my degree) GPA:3.8 GRE: 166Q/165V/4AR Internships: 2 summers at NASA JSC, 6 months at NASA JPL, 2 summers at Air Force Research Labs, 5 months at SpaceX Research: 3 semesters in a satellite design lab working on two satellites (one of which just won an Air Force Competition for a launch) LOR: three solid letters, two from professors, one from my boss at AFRL this past sumer Applied: (All top 10 in my field) Georgia Tech (I have been talking to a professor for the past few months) MIT (One of my LOR wrote personal letters to the Provost and President about me because they went to MIT together) Maryland Purdue Illinois at UC