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 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:
Current Status
- 12/1/10: 100 submitted, 31 complete, 4 reviewed
Useful information
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- The main application review site is here here https://gradapplyapply.mit.edu/aeroastro/review/
- The 2010-2011 GAC members are here: Aero Astro Grad Admissions Committee Members
- Average AA test scores of admitted students from Fall 2010 are here: 2010 Average Test Scores (also gives TOEFL information).
- The 2010 US News and World Report Rankings for Engineering Schools are here: USN&WR Rankings
- You can send mail to the entire GAC via aa-gac@mit.edu.
GAC Schedule
- Nov 10: 2:30-3:30 Kick-off Meeting
- Dec 1: Initial assignment of folders
- Dec 15: Admissions deadline. Try to get folders of all early applicants read.
- Jan 10: All folders read with 2 reviews.
- Jan 24: All folders with at least 1 score of 3 or higher AND at least one score with 2 or lower read by 3rd reviewer
- Jan 28: All folders read, sent to sectors.
General Admissions Information
- manage/reader/ (SLATE)
- Navigate to "Queue" to view your unread assigned applications for review
- 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.