Hope and Dreams

Can't speak too much for other disciplines, but it isn't really common in chemical engineering. For engineering in general, departments look for technical problem solving skills and intuition, which you don't really need interviews to determine; transcripts, GRE scores, and CVs should already reflect those skills pretty well. I think interviews tend to be more common for biomedical sciences/engineering.

How much contact have you had with their department/the professors there? Was the waiver given directly by the department or the graduate school there? I can't say for sure, but I think the department would handle it more directly if they were specifically interested in you.

Delaware has two visit weekends: February 7-9 and March 21-23. They're asking admitted students to RSVP for one or the other. The RSVP deadline for the February weekend is January 20th, so a big chunk of the offers will probably be out by then. I wouldn't count yourself out until February 18th though. That's the RSVP deadline to attend the March visit weekend. I'm guessing it isn't super common for programs to send out offers after their visit weekends, but I think it's possible they might send out one or two. Columbia's visit weekend is March 28-30 and they're asking students to RSVP by February 18th, so that's when I would expect most offers to come out by. If anyone else is willing to share details on programs they've been admitted to, that'd be great. I'm still waiting to hear back from five other chemical engineering programs. I'll share a profile once I hear back from most of them or decide where I want to enroll. Delaware is one of my top choices, but I'd like to hear back from a couple more before I commit. I'm a US Citizen by the way.