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I'm not sure what the "admission status page" is. If you're talking about the "Review Your Activity" page, then no, I don't see any changes.

Sure...and no, I'm not the guy on the Results page Oh, and to give an idea of a general timeline to expect, the deadline to RSVP for Stanford's "DiscoverEE Days" (March 10-11) is February 23. Undergrad Institution: top 5 in US Major(s): EE GPA in Major: 3.85 (at time of application...I think it's a bit higher now) Overall GPA: 3.94 Length of Degree: 4 yrs Position in Class: Top 10% (school doesn't rank) Type of Student: Domestic GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 630 W: 5.5 Research Experience: 2.5 years of undergraduate research, several publications, a few conference presentations Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Goldwater scholar, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, a couple of prizes in my university Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 1 summer at research institute - resulted in 2 publications Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: quite a few leadership positions? not sure if that helped, though... I applied to MIT, Stanford, UIUC, Santa Barbara, and Cornell. I was officially accepted into MIT, Stanford, UIUC, and Santa Barbara. I heard back unofficially from Cornell (e-mail from a professor).

Sorry if I add to anxiety, but I just wanted to note that I finally got an official acceptance letter (with official notice of an SGF) about an hour ago via e-mail (the e-mail also says that there will be no hard copy or "package" sent). Good luck to everyone who applied.

No, I think that each department decides its visiting day separately (at least friends in other departments say that their MIT visiting dates are not March 4-5...and some haven't even heard back yet either), so the dates that I gave are only confirmed for EECS.

As far as I know, Stanford EE has only sent unofficial acceptances. I know this because I have been in contact with a professor who contacted me via phone in late January saying that I would probably be admitted with some kind of fellowship. He's followed up through e-mail twice since then, most recently with a "congratulations" e-mail that said that I would be accepted with a departmental fellowship and that I was nominated for a Stanford Graduate Fellowship with a "good chance of receiving it" (results determined in "mid-February"...so whoever claims to have already received it by this point is probably being presumptuous). This e-mail was dated 02/06, and the professor claims that formal letters of admission will go out in ~ 1 week (i.e. this week); I say "claims" because another e-mail the week before said a similar thing in terms of timing. I guess they just have a ton of applications to work through.

I am a U.S. citizen studying in the U.S. (not at MIT). I got a congratulations e-mail ~10:30 pm (Eastern time) from MIT on Wednesday, 02/09. I received a letter+booklet in the mail the next day (the letter was dated February 07). The envelope was marked IV, so I'm assuming this was the area that my interests were determined to fall under. In short, to confirm, yes, the timing of this wave of admissions seems to not be location-dependent. Some more info that you all might find useful and/or interesting: - The letter said that information about financial support (including fellowships) will come in March - Visiting days are March 4-5. The RSVP deadline is Wednesday, February 16, so I assume that they plan to send out all (or almost all) admissions by this date. - My application website hasn't been updated (it still says check back in March for a decision...), so as far as I know, if you're anxious, there's no point in obsessively refreshing that website.