New Info for Fall
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2021 Application Cycle
- The Grad Admissions Chair for AY20 is Brian Wardle.
- AeroAstro Admissions/Diversity Efforts can be found here.
- Zack Cordero (Materials and Structures) and ChuChu Fan (Autonomy, Controls, ACE) WILL be participating in admissions during this cycle, so please DO recommend.
- AY21 is Jaime Peraire.
- As you begin to review grad admissions folders and make reader recommendations for admissible files, please DO NOT RECOMMEND the following readers, as they will be away on leave in the Spring:-Ed Crawley-Dave Miller-Richard Linares-Steven Barrett (instead you may recommend Ray Speth, who is now PRS and may advise SM students - he and Steven have arranged that he will review files)Coming Soon!
Useful information for All Reviewers
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- There is a "My Unread Files" button on the left of your review interface in the Query menu, to show you your unread folders only.
- Average AA test scores of admitted students from Fall 2019 are here: 2019 Average Test Scores (also gives TOEFL information).
- The 2017 US News and World Report Rankings for Engineering Schools are here: USN&WR Rankings
- Peterson's Online Guide! Just type the school you're looking for into the search bar at the top! http://www.petersons.com/
- QS World University Rankings (2018)
- Rankings on Indian engineering schools here
- Fulbright Fellowships
- Brazilian national Fellowships (MIT specific)
- 2020 US Air Force Academy Statistics (sorted by GPA) (Note: in the spreadsheet columns, OM_GPA is their Cum GPA class ranking. OM stands for order of merit. OPA is their Overall Performance Average which includes their Cum GPA, Military Performance Average (MPA) and their Athletic Performance Average (APA).) *Provided by USAFA liaison Helen Meisenhelder
- Council of Graduate Schools Publication Resource
- Dealing with Application Fraud (confidentiality, privacy, etc.)
- Spring 2013 Grad Admissions Transition Update (from Dean Christine Ortiz)
- Fall 2014 deadlines for Competitor Programs
- Admissions Update from Christine Ortiz (2013)
- Misrepresentation of Information in Graduate Admissions Memo and spreadsheet (from Dean Christine Ortiz, 7/10/14)
- GE Applicants: Please take extra care in reviewing applicants who are working full time for GE - we currently have 3 cases where students from GE are performing poorly mostly due to the time constraints imposed by GE, and HQ asks for careful review before they can be admitted to our program, going forward.
- AeroAstro Admissions/Diversity Efforts can be found here.
GAC-specific information
- You can send mail to the entire GAC via aagac@mit.edu.
- Any difficulties, please mail Brian Wardle (wardle@mit.edu) or Beth Marois (bethamar@mit.edu)
- For GAC Chair/Grad Admin: To give new faculty members or AA admissions staff access to this wiki please add them to aa-reviewers in WebMoira.
- The 2019-2020 GAC members are here: Aero Astro Grad Admissions Committee Members
- Dec 2011 Faculty News Letter article on Institute Grad Admissions by Christine Ortiz
- There is a "My Unread Files" button on the left of your review interface in the Query menu, to show you your unread folders only.
- Letter templates (admissions, waitlist, rejections, etc.) are here
- Tag meaning: They are tagged as such when these items are missing. Complete with Tag in () means the unofficial copy is here so we're going forward with the review, but a favorable decision would be held until receipt of the actual document. They are all cleaned up before we send out decisions.
- E = IELTS or TOEFL
- G = GRE
- T = transcript
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