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• Slate application will open on September 15th (unless we decide otherwise) and closes on January 15th 
• If January 15th falls on or near a weekend, consider extending to the following Monday.
• Late January-set the day for the application committee meeting-sometime the first week of March.
• Also set the date of the Accepted Student Open House.
• Have fellowship committee meeting as soon as possible after the admissions committee meeting.
• By March 15th, have all letters updated and scheduled to be released.
• Responses due on 4/15

The following items are now handled directly through Slate:

• Applicants enter their request for English Language Testing (ELT) Waiver 
•  Fellowship Appications are entered via the Slate Application. 
•  Admitted students indicate their offer of acceptance via Slate as well as pay their deposit.
  • All deposits should be automatically go into the 1561600 account.

ELT WAIVER

• For the ELT Waiver, the Grad Admin/MSRED Admissions will receive an email of a submitted waiver. 
• Note that waivers are due on 12/15 even though the application itself is due on 1/15. 
• Applicants can submit waiver materials even if they are not ready to submit their final application
• Once the waiver has been reviewed, a decision is entered into Slate directly and automatically notifies the applicant. 
• If they are waived, there is not further action. If they are not, their application will be incomplete until they load ELT

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Link to the English Language Testing Waiver

Letters of Reference

• Students must enter the names/emails of their references. 
• The people listed will get an email with instructions on how to upload the reference. If there are issues, a referral can send an email directly to the CRE and it can be uploaded by the grad admin team. 
• Discourage anyone who is reapplying from recycling older letters.
• The system will only allow 3 letters.

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You can label the material (i.e., LOR, Transcripts, etc.) and write in a note as well

BINS

• All applications are sorted into BINS and in some cased, automatically move from one bin to another based on certain rules.
• All work is done from the bins. 
• At the level of accepting/rejecting applicants, there might be some assigning to certain bins.
• When letters are completed, you can set time for letters to be released to all applicants.

Helpful Queries

The Slate Team built a series of queries on the CRE/SLATE home page of quick searches

• You can access the English Language Test Waiver from this location.
• To edit these queries, reach out to gradslatehelp@mit.edu

Reviewing Applications

• Applications are sorted into BINS depending on the status of the application (i.e., awaiting submission, awaiting materials, etc)
• Access BIN view fro top menu, called SLATE READER

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• Click on the CRE Application Tab and then on the next screen, select BROWSE from the menu on the left
• You will see all the BINS

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• If you click in a BIN, you will have list of names. If you click on a name, it will highlight and show you an icon of a piece of paper to the far right of the screen
• Click on that to see the application
• You can tab through the various parts of the application

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BEST PRACTICES

• Do not download the application. 
• For privacy purposes, you should review all items online
• Comment on an applicant need to be professional. There are circumstances under which an applicant can view their application.
• While reviewing an application, hit SAVE if you want to continue to work on it or are not ready to submit it.
• Hit SEND when you are ready to submit. Once you do so, you will not longer be able to see the application.

GradApply (Archive)

The CRE uses Slate as the graduate application software for graduate admisisons. Grad Apply is no longer active but can be accessed.
Dorothy Curtis is the main contact person dcurtis@mit.edu. for Grad Apply

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