sansao

I personally think it would be better to wait until after the notification dates.

magnetic resonance

flesh wound

Unfortunately, it seems like most schools do the opposite.

mind game

Congratulations. Hopefully they give you a nice funding package too.

There's lots of examples in the results section of people finding out they're accepted via post or a website, or from the grad department. Anything is possible.

Fabric paint

Cray. Exactly the word I was thinking.

Tall tale

I so did not mean to vote you down. My phone is a traitor, and I apologize.

Spinning Top

"professional student " I really need to stop hearing that one. -______-

I could see it happening in the case of a brand new department. For example, if you were applying to chemistry with a concentration in cosmochem, and they had just opened a "space science" department or something, then that might make sense. I also saw some options where you could choose to be considered for a semi-related masters. Other than that, I can't imagine what circumstances would cause another department to receive and consider an application beyond extraordinary good luck.

I just plan on sending an update and a thank you message after I know what's going on. There's a possibility that I'll be working with some of them, so I think I'll be as professional as possible.

My plan is to wait for a while (like a week), just for anonymity's sake.

Congratulations. Hope you get in!

Top Hat

Agreed. I am so printing this, keeping a copy in my bag, and putting one on the wall by my computer.

^^This. Plus knowing that things are going to be dramatically different in 6 months no matter the outcome is helpful too. I do wish I could just know what was going to happen, though.

Well, my app made it through the first cut at one school, now I wait on secondary review. Not one the schools I've interviewed at previously, so I'm pretty chipper today.

Vampire Bat

enriched flour

Getting in with a 2.9 is not totally unheard of, so wait and see. In the event that you are not admitted, you should do all that you and e.regina mentioned above. Also, have you looked at engineering graduate certificate programs? Some schools let you start with one of those and then roll it into a terminal masters degree. With a masters, and (presumably) a good GPA in a masters program, along with the ideas in previous posts, you could help yourself significantly towards a PhD admission.

It was good for me in a lot of other ways, but the grad school process was a disaster.