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Yeah, you are right. Have you seen these charts by any chance? Some guy has collected data from gradcafe over 5 years to make these plots https://imgur.com/a/UIYnF

Yeah...I feel like in ME especially there're a lot of students who want to go into industry (e.g. me)

I wish these weeks go by fast (even though a lot to do in the meantime)!

Before reading this thread, I was checking the portals only every few days, now I will be doing that few times a day! Dammit >_<

Haha I will quote you if I don't get in - "I wasn't admitted because they rarely admit students with SM as a terminal degree objective" is a good excuse that won't hurt my self-esteem too much. I guess it means we weren't outright rejected? Or he just wants to make you feel better

I am international too, actually. My undergrad is from the US, though. So not sure if there is any advantage in that!

Could you post the reddit link?

My final degree objective is Masters, so I didn't think much about it. I feel like it's only really important if your final degree objective makes sense with the rest of your SOP? It's a good question and I wonder if there is any data that shows that a degree objective affects the admission outcome. One could argue, however, that PhD-oriented people might have a stronger profile in general thus skewing the statistic.

I know that some universities offer fee waivers for submitting applications. I am not sure what the qualification criteria are, or if an international student can even apply for one, but you should definitely check it out! Also, in my humble opinion, you are a strong candidate, I wish you the best of luck!

Thank you for the link! But from what I understand, that number includes PhD applicants, right? PhD is usually more competitive than Masters...from what I know.

I wonder if the 10% who don't think that way actually gets in! Does anybody know any statistics on how many people actually get in? I know that US News says that about 22% of Masters applicants for ALL engineering majors at MIT get in, but I don't know how up to date that information is and how ME differs from that number (more or less competitive?).

I just don't believe myself to be the strongest applicant, I guess. Part of might be true, some part of it might be an impostor syndrome! It's going to be what it's going to be

Lol, rejection is very likely (at least for me!). It does seem like they are a bit behind this year, at least with PhD acceptances. I heard some people saying that the government shutdown could have affected PhD offers due to uncertainty with funding (not specific to MIT, just in general). And historically it seems like they give PhD offers before SM, so it might take us a while to get our decisions. At any case, don't lose hope! Last year they sent out acceptances for SM in March too. Anyway...I promise I will post my rejection/acceptance on the results page as soon as I get it.

In fact, according to the MIT MechE website: "Decisions will be done on a rolling basis beginning the end of February and continuing until the end of March."

That's according to the poster, though. It seemed like last year there were at least 2 waves - one around now, and another at the beginning of March. So we will see!

Yeah, what is going on? What that person really accepted or was it a lie?