AWood316

I can't see them sending blatant lies even if your individual application was still being processed. I'm assuming you both got the email today from the DMSE Dept. Head. If not, I'll paste it below; Answered all of my questions. I am writing to you to offer my personal apology and an apology on behalf of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for a recent email you received in error from the graduate admissions committee in the Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). I also writing to provide you with some more information. This year DMSE is using a new software package for its graduate application process. On Tuesday, January 14, around 9 pm, an email was sent to you and all other applicants awaiting a decision on their application to the graduate program, notifying each of you that you had been accepted to DMSE’s graduate program. This email, sent to all applicants awaiting a decision, was sent in error. Staff from the admissions committee discovered the software error almost immediately and within minutes of sending the original email, sent another email to inform you and others of the error. To be clear, a decision on your application has not been made yet. The decision on your application is presently being reviewed and we expect you will learn of the Department’s decision no later than the first week in February. I now understand the email was sent as a result of a software error. I want to assure you that we are working to better understand what happened so that it does not happen again. I know you may be upset about getting the initial email and I am sorry this happened. I hope that your interest and enthusiasm for MIT and our graduate program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering will remain strong in spite of this incident. I am available to talk to you about any questions or concerns you may have. Yours, Chris Schuh Department Head, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Guess I'll resort to checking my mailbox every five minutes instead of my email

Zorkiv, I also got the email. The admissions office and admission administrator informed me over the phone that no decision have been made yet so I am confused with the definite acceptances posted on the results page. Out of curiosity, did your email read this same way: We are very pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) for PhD-track graduate studies starting Fall 2014. Congratulations! The official admissions letter will be mailed to you, and further email correspondence will follow. However, we wanted to offer our congratulations immediately, and bring to your attention our DMSE visitation weekend dates: February 27-March 2, 2014 or March 13-16, 2014. On each of these weekends, you and other newly admitted students visit MIT DMSE to meet with faculty and students and learn firsthand about our research and education opportunities. We look forward to meeting you then. Your email address will be added to the mailing list mse-pregrads@mit.edu . We will follow up so that you can provide us with information regarding your plans and the DMSE faculty members with whom you would like to meet during your visit. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Elissa Haverty or me at dmse-hosting@mit.edu .

It sucks. School is a reach but it still sucked to get an acceptance followed five minutes later by oops...

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Generally anything by Jack White but this Raconteurs song, spot on:

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