MIT IDM Fall 2021

[jr_roundumbrella]

@robopoboxBackground?
When did you submit the application?

[robopobox]

On 3/10/2021 at 11:00 PM, pausedtoast95 said:

@wemuns @robopobox How was the interview? What kind of questions did they ask? How would you prepare differently if you could go back in time and do it again?

@pausedtoast95  It was interesting.

No point in going back in time and doing it again, as the outcome will be different every time.

recommend to simply follow the instructions. 

[robopobox]

On 3/11/2021 at 7:51 AM, jr_roundumbrella said:

@robopoboxBackground?
When did you submit the application?

@jr_roundumbrella

Engineering 

one day before the deadline. 

[Hong_66]

On 3/5/2021 at 9:58 PM, wemuns said:

Just curious

Do any of you have experience less than 3 years?

I have 2 years full-time experience and 1.5 years of part-time experience along with an experience of running my own start-up (not too big scale) for 2 years while I was in undergrad. 
Do you think this will count towards their requirement of 3 years experience? To be honest the interview was a bit of a surprise to me as they mentioned in the webinar that I had attended back in November that I should wait for another year to apply.... so keeping my fingers crossed and hoping it goes well! 

Hello there! I have a pretty simillar situation with you. Strictly speacking, my full-time experience does not reach 3 years. Btw, I am also from a design background but I did not recieve the interview invitation. So I believe I do not have possibility to be accepted in this program.

In addition, I am also curious about how they managed this program last year. Did they accept student defer? Or everyone was in Zoom University...What a tough year for everyone... 

[bluetime]

For those who got an interview, congrats!! Do they give you choices to schedule your interview? Or do you have to do it 1-3 days after receiving the invite?

[kweeneytodd]

16 hours ago, bluetime said:

For those who got an interview, congrats!! Do they give you choices to schedule your interview? Or do you have to do it 1-3 days after receiving the invite?

Thanks! They give you a link to select timeslots over a period of the upcoming week after the email comes in. So if the interview invitation comes in on a Friday, the link will show timeslots for the next week. 

Folks who've finished their interviews: any word on when decisions will be out? I tried emailing the program to find out but haven't heard back.

[wemuns]

1 hour ago, kweeneytodd said:

Thanks! They give you a link to select timeslots over a period of the upcoming week after the email comes in. So if the interview invitation comes in on a Friday, the link will show timeslots for the next week. 

Folks who've finished their interviews: any word on when decisions will be out? I tried emailing the program to find out but haven't heard back.

The website and previous years’ stats show that they only release it mid-April ? so we have almost a month more to go! I am under the assumption that interviews are still going on and will go on till early April (again, based on last years’ stats) 

[Wobblyrhino]

@bluetime I had to do mine the next morning because it was the only slot available. T__T

[bluetime]

49 minutes ago, Wobblyrhino said:

@bluetime I had to do mine the next morning because it was the only slot available. T__T

Wow, that's tough! 

[Rishabh Agnihotri]

On 3/17/2021 at 7:30 PM, Hong_66 said:

Hello there! I have a pretty simillar situation with you. Strictly speacking, my full-time experience does not reach 3 years. Btw, I am also from a design background but I did not recieve the interview invitation. So I believe I do not have possibility to be accepted in this program.

In addition, I am also curious about how they managed this program last year. Did they accept student defer? Or everyone was in Zoom University...What a tough year for everyone... 

I would suggest keep the hopes up, may be they are using some batch based system. Or maybe something else. I think we have time till first week of April to get those invites. To be honest, I am also getting nervous day by day, looking at my inbox, spam folder, checking this forum again and again. But I would say, too early to give up on this. 

By the way, anyone out of you from business background has received an interview invite?

[Hong_66]

12 minutes ago, Rishabh Agnihotri said:

I would suggest keep the hopes up, may be they are using some batch based system. Or maybe something else. I think we have time till first week of April to get those invites. To be honest, I am also getting nervous day by day, looking at my inbox, spam folder, checking this forum again and again. But I would say, too early to give up on this. 

By the way, anyone out of you from business background has received an interview invite?

Thanks Bro! Waiting for good news from everyone!

[kweeneytodd]

9 hours ago, wemuns said:

The website and previous years’ stats show that they only release it mid-April ? so we have almost a month more to go! I am under the assumption that interviews are still going on and will go on till early April (again, based on last years’ stats) 

Aw man. I just checked their FAQ page, you're right it says April. Guess I'll stop refreshing my inbox then. Thanks for the brief moment of peace

[kweeneytodd]

4 hours ago, Rishabh Agnihotri said:

I would suggest keep the hopes up, may be they are using some batch based system. Or maybe something else. I think we have time till first week of April to get those invites. To be honest, I am also getting nervous day by day, looking at my inbox, spam folder, checking this forum again and again. But I would say, too early to give up on this. 

By the way, anyone out of you from business background has received an interview invite?

Yup!

[desginengineeringmasters]

Anyone have any thoughts on MIT IDM vs Harvard MDE vs Berkeley MDes? 

[jr_roundumbrella]

@kweeneytodd
When did you receive the interview invite? Are you done with it?
When did you submit the application?
And did you receive that "We wanted to let you know we are in the process of carefully reviewing your application...." email on 3rd March?

Just trying to see check a random hypothesis i.e. if people who have received this email are out of the interview list!!

[chlobop]

I heard from my colleague that had an interview on Friday they said 1.5 weeks out from release of decisions.

Edited March 21, 2021 by chlobop

[dqbui]

3 hours ago, chlobop said:

I heard from my colleague that had an interview on Friday they said 1.5 weeks out from release of decisions.

That's pretty early for this year 

Edited March 22, 2021 by dqbui

[leeps]

Got my acceptance today ☺️ good luck everyone ❤️

[bluetime]

Wow congrats! Did you do an interview before?

Did anyone else get accepted? 

From the amount of people on the group it seems 5-6 people got interviewed and 1 accept so far?

[Azman]

3 hours ago, leeps said:

Got my acceptance today ☺️ good luck everyone ❤️

Hi! Congratulations! When was your interview and did you get an email?

[Rishabh Agnihotri]

5 hours ago, leeps said:

Got my acceptance today ☺️ good luck everyone ❤️

Oh Congrats! Great news, when did you apply? I believe you applied in business background?

[kweeneytodd]

16 hours ago, jr_roundumbrella said:

@kweeneytodd
When did you receive the interview invite? Are you done with it?
When did you submit the application?
And did you receive that "We wanted to let you know we are in the process of carefully reviewing your application...." email on 3rd March?

Just trying to see check a random hypothesis i.e. if people who have received this email are out of the interview list!!

Got the invite on Feb 26, had the interview the following week after that. Submitted app the day of the deadline. Did not receive that March 3rd email. 

Interesting hypothesis! I wonder what their plan for rolling out decisions is, haven't heard anything since the interview so freaking out a bit.

[jr_roundumbrella]

35 minutes ago, kweeneytodd said:

Got the invite on Feb 26, had the interview the following week after that. Submitted app the day of the deadline. Did not receive that March 3rd email. 

Interesting hypothesis! I wonder what their plan for rolling out decisions is, haven't heard anything since the interview so freaking out a bit.

Someone in this forum got an accept.. So that is also on a rolling basis 
Check @leepspost on page 3

[kweeneytodd]

3 minutes ago, jr_roundumbrella said:

Someone in this forum got an accept.. So that is also on a rolling basis 
Check @leepspost on page 3

Yup saw it! Fingers crossed, F5 key slamming begins. All the best peeps.

 

Btw congratulations @leeps! It's such a cool program, hope you enjoy your experiences with them over the next two years  

 

 

[jr_roundumbrella]

10 minutes ago, kweeneytodd said:

Yup saw it! Fingers crossed, F5 key slamming begins. All the best peeps.

 

Btw congratulations @leeps! It's such a cool program, hope you enjoy your experiences with them over the next two years  

 

 

Best of luck @kweeneytodd

@leeps Congratulations