engineering_terpie

It's March 31st... I've applied for both the M.S. and M. Eng programs in mechanical engineering - I'm a little anxious because it's basically April and I haven't heard back from either program. I'm assuming that my chances at an M.S. are zero to none, but would like to think I have some hope for M. Eng - I emailed admissions and they told me they hadn't gotten to my application yet since they were reviewing in the order they received. I don't know anything about admissions rate for the M. Eng program - how many admits? what is the acceptance rate? I'm filled with anxiety not knowing, sigh - does anyone think I have a chance? I'm a double minority (which does play some role because UMD does a good job of wanting to accept a diverse applicant pool), have recommendations from UMD professors (I went to UMD for undergrad - and one is a professor for the M. Eng program that I currently do volunteer research for), have a publication and numerous years of research with the department chair, in addition to 4+ years of work experience. The only caveat I'm scared of is my GPA - it's slightly below a 3.1... I effed up the first two years, but the last two years I almost had a 4.0, so improvement, but... consolidated together, not the best. Can someone please soothe my anxiety LOL...