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New Info for Fall 2024 Application Cycle

• The Grad Admissions Chair for AY24 is Jaime Peraire.
• The early admissions process for the 5-year combined SB/SM program opens on June 1. Review will run through mid-August, with decisions being sent by September 1.
• Have a look at our current Scoring Guidelines here. Please use these guidelines if needed, when you are choosing the numerical score of an applicant you are reviewing.
• Our current process flowchart can be found here. This is a detailed step-by-step explanation of the graduate admissions review process.
• Slides from the GAC Kick Off Meeting on Wednesday, November 29th can be found  
• Aero Astro is now on Slate

Useful information for All Reviewers

• Information for new faculty
• How to review
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Admissions
• Departmental Fellowships
• The main application review site is here https://apply.mit.edu/manage/reader/
• Navigate to "queue" to view your unread assigned applications for review
• Fulbright Fellowships
• 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: 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-specific information

• You can send mail to the entire GAC via aa-gac@mit.edu.
• Any difficulties, please mail Jaime Peraire (peraire@mit.edu) or Rachael Draper (rdraper@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 
• Intended meaning of review scores:
  • 4: Definitely Admit
  • 3.5. Admit
  • 3: Admissible
  • 2: Probably Admissible
  • 1: Reject
    
    

• 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. Additional reviews may be removed and rather conducted by GAC Chair and removed to the probable deny bin.
  
  

GAC 2023-2024 Schedule 

• • December 1, 2023: Grad applications website closes.
  • November 15, 2023 - January 3, 2024 - GAC Folder Reading begins (faculty review begins as soon as possible after this, as GAC reads are completed and I’m able to assign and pass along folders). Applications will have either one or two reviewers. Round 1 applications are due by January 5, 2024.
  • January 5, 2024: Round 1 completed by this date. All folders have two GAC reads (plus additional DI&I reading where necessary). Applications with either have no further review or one reviewer.
  • Mid-January: GAC Review Meeting
  • February 1, 2024: All faculty reviews completed
  • February 5-9, 2024: Sector Admissions Meetings
  • Beginning week of Feb 21, 2024: Students notified of admissions decisions - all decisions sent by March 1, 2024.
  • March 13-14, 2024: AeroAstro Open house
  • April 15, 2024: Graduate Reply Deadline
  • May 30, 2024: Wait List is released.

General Admissions Information

• 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?