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3 minutes ago, knows_nothing_gen said:

It feels so weird though given there are so few admission results posted on Gradcafe compared to last year. Guess it is not our time!

Do not put yourself down just yet, where else have you applied to? Have you heard back from any other institutes? 

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3 minutes ago, knows_nothing_gen said:

Done and dusted!

I sent a mail to the admissions committee, I got this reply.

"Our admissions committee has made the majority of offers. If there are additional offers, they will be released in March."

 

That's too bad..... I was hoping they would give out more offers today and tomorrow. 

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3 minutes ago, knows_nothing_gen said:

Is the recent post in admission results hers?

I don't think so, I think they give out most of the offers today, we still got a chance, just not high 

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6 minutes ago, knows_nothing_gen said:

Hi

Have you heard from Berkeley materials?

Nope, but my Imperial course-mate just got her offer which is really worrying hahahaha, I am expecting a rejection I guess. 

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6 minutes ago, hectorlopez3100 said:

Thank you! 

Yikes, sorry for not being admitted but who knows how the admission process is. I'm pretty sure you will get an invite from Caltech, they usually admit high achieving people. 

I will continue posting my results in this discussion. I hope you will too. By the way, who would you like to with in Northwestern? 

Chad Mirkin if possible, he is a legend, if not, I will go with Jiaxing Huang, but neither of them replied my emails

 

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2 minutes ago, hectorlopez3100 said:

UChicago IME (sorry for not specifying beforehand) and I think we should receive a decision from MIT in the following days. 

Good luck on your cocky selection.

Congratulations! Haha, thanks, hope I do not get only rejections. That would be really sad. I just got rejected from MIT chemistry. 

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6 hours ago, hectorlopez3100 said:

I received an offer on last Friday (12 January) and I know as a fact that decisions at Northwestern have been made but are just waiting to be uploaded in the near future. 

May I ask which Uni was that?

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My friend got an offer last week from Chicago but it was for organic chemistry, not materials Science. 

[Materials Science and Engineering Fall 2018 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Undergrad Institution: Imperial College London (UK), Master in University of Cambridge (UK)
Major: Materials Sci. and Eng.
Overall GPA: first-class, we do not do GPA in UK
Position in Class: top 5%, ranked no. 2 in my cohort of 44 people 
Type of Student: International, male

GRE Scores :
Q: 170
V: 160
W: 3.5 

Research Experience: 4 full-time research experiences, in total 18 month. In Imperial (Electrochemistry and nano, 3 months), Cambridge (Steel and Hydrogen 12 months) and two other institutes in China (relatively useless since too short, nano and opto, 3 months), 1 paper, 2nd author, just submitted  

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's lists and 1 scholarship 

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: N/A

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: N/A

Special Bonus Points:  I am quite lucky that two of my recommenders are quite big in the UK, my Imperial adviser is the dean of Engineering faculty, FREng, and my Cambridge adviser is a Knight, FREng, FRS. Both are famous researcher with really high h-index. 

Applying to Where

MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Northwestern, Berkeley, Stanford.

(I only apply to the top ones not because I am cocky, I already got accepted to Imperial and Cambridge, so I am only apply for the better ones and the ones provide more funding)