Toronto ECE MASc PhD Fall 2015 - Any updates?

[naus]

Hey everyone,

I have applied for admission to UoT's MASc program in the ECE department. I am an international applicant and as of now I haven't heard anything from the grad office apart from a generic housing email with instructions to activate my utorid and select a residency. No PoIs have made contact either. So whenever anxiety kicks in, I check my email inbox but to no avail.

 

Anyone accepted or being interviewed or contacted by a PoI?

[BeeTife]

I also applied to U of T. A different department though - Chemical Engineering. I also haven't heard anything. I read somewhere that their engineering admission process takes a while. I'm also as anxious as you are. Have you tried calling your department?

[naus]

Contacted the grad office. Ah well no professor seems to be interested in my application as of now. Still have time till the mid of June else its a rejection.

[BeeTife]

Have you cintacted any professors?

[BeeTife]

*contacted

[naus]

Yes. They don't bother replying. What about you? did you contact the grad office and professors?

[BeeTife]

Yeah I did. One professor said she would look at my application so I was kinda banking on that. But then she stopped replying my mails. I called the grad office on Thursday and was told no one has shown interest in my application. I called the professor to confirm and she said she has already recruited the students she wanted. Quite disappointing. I then proceeded to call virtually every professor with a close research interest to mine. A lot of them are done recruiting. Those that still have positions available are not keen on taking international students because of the extra cost. At this point, I think U of T is over for me. I'm now banking on Guelph and Mcgill. I would advice that you call your profs. I just realised emails are a waste of time. 90% of those I called picked up. And they were quite polite and nice. Try calling as many profs as you can. You might get lucky. All the best!