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New Info for Fall 2025 Application Cycle:

• The Grad Admissions Chair for AY25 is Luca Carlone.
• The Graduate Program Staff includes Rachael Draper and Erinn Taylor Barroso.
• (Completed) The early admissions process for the 5-year combined SB/SM program opens on June 1, 2024. Review will run through mid-August, with decisions being sent by September 1, 2024.
• Our current process flowchart can be found here. This is

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• a detailed step-by-step explanation of the graduate admissions review process. Note that the threshold for a candidate to advance to Round 2 is currently set to 2.5, but an increase of this threshold is being discussed as a potential change for this year.
• Starting Fall 2025, all faculty are member of the Graduate Admissions Committee (GAC). 

Useful Information for Reviewers:

• The main application review site is here https://apply.mit.edu/manage/reader/ (SLATE)
• Navigate to "Queue" to view your unread assigned applications for review
• • Tips and tricks to use SLATE
• Overview of the Grad Admissions process and information for new faculty
• Have a look at our suggested Scoring Guidelines here. Feel free to use these guidelines if needed, when you are choosing the numerical score of an applicant you are reviewing.
• Intended meaning of review scores:
  • 4: Definitely Admit
  • 3.5: Admit
  • 3: Admissible
  • 2: Probably Admissible
  • 1: Reject
• All official decisions from the department will not be sent until end of February
• For any difficulties, please mail Luca Carlone (lcarlone@mit.edu) or Rachael Draper (rdraper@mit.edu)
• Further information:
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Admissions
  • Departmental Fellowships
  • USAF and USSF Applicant Data forthcoming
  • Council of Graduate Schools Publication Resource: April 15 Resolution
    (The April 15 resolution is an agreement among the signatory graduate schools to provide applicants until April 15 to consider offers of admission that also include financial support.)

Resources on Rankings:

• US News and Reports (Best Global Universities): https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings
• US News and Reports (Best Engineering Schools): https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings 
• QS World University Rankings: https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings

GAC 2024-2025 Schedule:

• December 1, 2024: Grad applications website closes.
• December 2-8, 2024: Triaging by Graduate Program Staff and GAC Chair.
• December 9, 2024: Round 1 Folder Reviews begin. 
• January 10, 2025: Round 1 completed. All Round 1 folders have two GAC reads.
• February 1, 2025: All Round 2 reviews completed.
• February 5-7, 2025: Sector Admissions Meetings
• All decisions released morning of February 21, 2025.
• March 12-13, 2025: AeroAstro Open House
• April 15, 2025: Reply to Offer deadline
• May 30, 2025: Wait List is released.

General Admissions Information (not updated in AY25):

• GAC Policies.
• History of the GAC.
• Notes for future years.
• Admission to LGO through AeroAstro
• Admission to CSE through AeroAstro
• Why do we survey the faculty for their likely admit numbers?

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