Planning Admissions 2022

[oatmilklatte12]

In at Cornell with 28k in funding!

[nush19]

I've been silently following this thread for a while now. Might as well jump in ha 

Age/Gender/Citizenship

24/F/Int'l

Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated 

BArch / Top 20 in my country / 2020

GPA - GRE  - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 

8.45/10 - NA - 117/120

Work Experience:

1+ yr experience in participatory planning and community-led design projects 

6 month internship at the same firm where I work 

Letter of recommendations: (from whom)

Principal of undergrad, Thesis guide and mentor, 2 employers (one is an alumni of Columbia) 

Schools applied to: TU Delft, KTH Sweden, MIT, UPenn, GSD, Berkeley, Columbia MSAUD

In: 

Out: Berkeley

Wait-list:

Awaiting: TU Delft, KTH Sweden, MIT, UPenn, GSD, Columbia MSAUD

Final Result: 

[lz0474]

1 hour ago, oatmilklatte12 said:

In at Cornell with 28k in funding!

Wow, congrats. I guess not everyone in @Cornell received funding. Would you mind sharing your background? Thanks.

[whitebreastednuthatch]

Waitlisted at UNC (mcrp). The earliest to find out now is April 16.

[lazerdunk]

Just got an email that I'm in at the University of Washington MUP program! The email says there should be a separate email sometime in March that will contain funding information (if I get any!)

Still waiting on UIC-- anyone hear anything yet?

[ericplans]

anyone apply to University of Maryland or Virginia Tech?  I'm hoping to hear very soon, but nothing so far...

[atlplanner]

Anyone hear back from MIT or Michigan's Masters in Urban Planning programs yet?

[nacohhhhh]

Just got an email notification of early admission from Penn!!

The email is full of weird question mark typos though so a part of me isn’t convinced it’s real lmao

[GreenCities0311]

Just got the Upenn notice of early admission too!! I was also questioning the format but think its because of the collegenet format!

Congrats!!

Edited February 25, 2022 by GreenCities0311

[raykiddo97]

On 2/12/2022 at 4:10 PM, raykiddo97 said:

Age/Gender/Citizenship

25 / M / International

Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated 

B.Sc in City and Regional Planning / Top Public School in the Country / 2019

GPA - GRE  - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 

3.80 - No GRE - iBT 105; IELTS 8.0

Work Experience:

- 2+ years as project associate, working for 5+ infrastructure-transportation masterplanning projects; 10+ PPP preliminary & feasibility studies for major infrastructure projects; and 1 national-SDGs review project

- 3 years as research associate, exploring social justice, access to basic infrastructure, and topics in informal urbanism

- 4 years as teaching assistant for Quantitative Reasoning, GIS, Infrastructure Planning Studio, and Planning Process Studio

- Internships in a major transportation company in Japan & national authority agency in Turkey

- 1 year as honorary assessor for international accreditation agency 

Letter of recommendations: (from whom)

1 academic advisor-thesis advisor-employer for teaching, research, and project assistanships-dean of the school

1 professor & employer for teaching, research, and project assistanships

1 professor & employer (head of the office)

Schools applied to: MCP UC Berkeley, MCP UPenn, MRP Cornell, MCP MIT

In: UC Berkeley, Cornell, Penn

Out:

Wait-list:

Awaiting: MIT

Results:

In at Penn as well. Only one left for me. Good luck for all of us!!!

[woketaco]

10 hours ago, ericplans said:

anyone apply to University of Maryland or Virginia Tech?  I'm hoping to hear very soon, but nothing so far...

I’m waiting for Virginia Tech too. I applied in the second week of January. Haven’t heard anything so far. 
 

Other universities I’m waiting for: USC, Virginia Tech, ASU, Pratt

The ones I got into: University of Sydney, University of Melbourne and UW Milwaukee (this one’s my safety school) 

I’m so anxiously waiting for the decisions.

[YYY666]

6 hours ago, raykiddo97 said:

In at Penn as well. Only one left for me. Good luck for all of us!!!

Cool!!! Congrats! where are u from?

[TheTreePrince]

Congratulations to everyone who's heard back and gotten in so far! Excited for all of us!

Still waiting to hear back at UofT, UBC, McGill, Dal, and Rutgers. Surprised it seems no one's heard back from any of these programs yet.

[urban_geographer_planner]

For those who applied to UMich - I took a cue from last year's forum and decided to check Wolverine Access to see if my decision was ready, and lo-and-behold, it was!  

 - the site says "an official admissions letter is being processed and will be emailed shortly"

[atlplanner]

@urban_geographer_planner congrats! do you mind sharing where on the site you were able to access the decision? they may not have made a decisions for me yet, but I don't see anything.

[atlplanner]

On 2/23/2022 at 11:36 AM, atlplanner said:

Age/Gender/Citizenship

27/F/USA

Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated 

BS in Business / top STEM public school / 2018

GPA - GRE  - TOEFL 

3.81 GPA, no GRE

Work Experience:

2.5 years working in analytics at 2 Fortune 500 companies and 1 non-profit

Letter of recommendations: (from whom)

2 - undergrad profs

1 - boss from my non-profit experience

1 - senior colleague from my non-profit experience

Schools applied to: Master in Planning at MIT, Penn, Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill, GT

In: GT (awaiting funding), UNC Chapel Hill (TA assistantship w/ stipend), Penn (awaiting funding), Michigan (awaiting funding)

Out:

Wait-list:

Awaiting: MIT

Results:

jk @urban_geographer_planner- I figured out how to view it. thanks for the tip!

[eastcoastplanner]

Looks like someone reported receiving a text message of admission from Harvard today - did anyone else get this? Just checked the portal and I don't see any update.

[purpleoven78]

Anyone else get into Penn? Based on history, they send out acceptances end of Feb and rejections in March so I'm guessing I'm out

[nush19]

On 2/25/2022 at 12:26 PM, nush19 said:

I've been silently following this thread for a while now. Might as well jump in ha 

Age/Gender/Citizenship

24/F/Int'l

Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated 

BArch / Top 20 in my country / 2020

GPA - GRE  - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 

8.45/10 - NA - 117/120

Work Experience:

1+ yr experience in participatory planning and community-led design projects 

6 month internship at the same firm where I work 

Letter of recommendations: (from whom)

Principal of undergrad, Thesis guide and mentor, 2 employers (one is an alumni of Columbia) 

Schools applied to: TU Delft, KTH Sweden, MIT, UPenn, GSD, Berkeley, Columbia MSAUD

In: UPenn

Out: Berkeley

Wait-list:

Awaiting: TU Delft, KTH Sweden, MIT, GSD, Columbia MSAUD

Final Result: 

Received an early notification from Penn a few days ago too. I got the same weirdly punctuated email. I feel so relieved considering how sad I was after Berkeley. The anxiety for GSD and MIT is killing me. Congratulations to everyone!

[oatmilklatte12]

In:

UPenn

Michigan

UC-Berkeley

Cornell

UNC

Tufts

Waiting:

Harvard

MIT

Georgia Tech

UVA

Out:

[jade888]

Just heard from GA tech! Anyone know how funding works for them (if it would have been in the admissions offer or if you hear later on) ?

Edited February 28, 2022 by jade888

[stop making sense]

Looks like someone has heard back from Harvard already, and given that last year’s decisions came out during the first week of March it seems like this week will be the week. I’m not expecting an acceptance but it would sure be really nice! 

[atlplanner]

3 hours ago, jade888 said:

Just heard from GA tech! Anyone know how funding works for them (if it would have been in the admissions offer or if you hear later on) ?

I didn't get any funding info either. I'm assuming we'll hear later on. They also didn't give me a date that I need to decide by. The email I got just said "Let us know ASAP", which I thought was not very helpful lol.

[ericplans]

ok, so I'm going nuts. Nothing much at all coming out of the two schools I applied to.  Anyone have any sources besides TGC that you recommend checking for signs or signals of movement from specific schools? Applying for PhD here.

[plannerboi]

On 2/20/2022 at 5:55 PM, plannerboi said:

Just discovered this site/thread this week, and wanted to post as I am an applicant with an unusually low GPA, as a result of personal struggles in undergrad

Age/Gender/Citizenship

28/M/USA

Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated 

BS in Environmental Planning / mediocre mid-Atlantic state-school / 2016

GPA - GRE  - TOEFL 

<2.6 GPA, no GRE

Work Experience:

1 year college planning internship @ a local nonprofit  
6 years government planning work, 3 in lead/project management roles

Letter of recommendations: (from whom)

1 - undergrad advisor/prof in 3 classes

1 - boss, mentor throughout govt career

1 - senior colleague

1 - agency director

Schools applied to: MIT, Harvard GSD, Cal Berkeley 

In: Cal, MIT

Out:

Wait-list:

Awaiting: Harvard GSD

Results:

just got a call from MIT - accepted! 2/2, just waiting for my last reply //  still shaking in disbelief