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The Grad Admissions Chair for AY22 is Jaime Peraire.
Have a look at our current Scoring Guidelines here.
Our current process flowchart can be found here.
The early admissions process for the 5-year combined SB/SM program is underway. Review will run through mid-August, with decisions being sent by September 1.
Slides from the GAC Kick Off Meeting on Nov 8, 2021 can be found here.
When recommending readers, please avoid the following faculty who will be on leave and not reviewing this cycle: Kerri Cahoy, Dave Darmofal, Carmen Guerra Garcia, and of course Dave Miller.

Information for new faculty
How to review
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Admissions
Departmental Fellowships
The main application review site is here https://gradapply.mit.edu/aeroastro/review/
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.
Fulbright Fellowships
2022 US Air Force Academy Statistics: Provided by USAFA liaison Helen Meisenhelder (Director of Graduate Studies Program), helen.meisenhelder@afacademy.af.edu
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.

You can send mail to the entire GAC via aa-gac@mit.edu.
Any difficulties, please mail Jaime Peraire (peraire@mit.edu) or Beata Shuster (bshuster@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 2022-2023 GAC members are here: AeroAstro Grad Admissions Committee Members
Dec 2011 Faculty News Letter article on Institute Grad Admissions by Christine Ortiz
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
- T = transcript

Intended meaning of review scores:
- 4: Definitely Admit
- 3.5. Admit
- 3: Admissible
- 2: Probably Admissible
- 1: Reject
Scoring Guidelines - please use these guidelines if needed, when you are choosing the numerical score of an applicant you are reviewing.
Process Flowchart - this is a detailed step-by-step explanation of the graduate admissions review process, implemented December 2020

GAC will only ask sector for review if it receives an average score of >2.5
"Score of 1 Triaging" will be done by GAC Chair to facilitate efficient review of applications. Chair Note: via Action pulldown, unassign GAC Reader via "Remove assignment". Beth officially marks later as "Probable Reject" via "Add tag"
DI&I reviewer will be assigned as an additional read for self-identified women and URM candidates.

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