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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.
• 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.
• Our current process flowchart can be found here. This is a detailed step-by-step explanation of the graduate admissions review process.
• All faculty are member of the graduate admissions committee. 

Useful information for All Reviewers

• The main application review site is here https://apply.mit.edu/manage/reader/
• Navigate to "queue" to view your unread assigned applications for review
• Tips and tricks to use SLATE
• Information for new faculty
• How to review
• 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-specific information

• For any difficulties, please mail Luca Carlone (lcarlone@mit.edu) or Rachael Draper (rdraper@mit.edu)
• As of the 2025 cycle, all faculty are now members of the Graduate Admissions Committee (GAC)
• Intended meaning of review scores:
  • 4: Definitely Admit
  • 3.5: Admit
  • 3: Admissible
  • 2: Probably Admissible
  • 1: Reject

• GAC will only ask sectors to perform Round 2 reviews if a candidate receives an average score of >2.5 during Round 1
• Triaging will be done by GAC Chair and Student Services to facilitate efficient review of applications. Additional reviews may be removed and rather conducted by GAC Chair and removed to the pending deny bin.
• All official decisions from the department will not be sent until end of February.

GAC 2024-2025 Schedule 

• December 1, 2024: Grad applications website closes.
• December 9, 2024 - January 10, 2025 - 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 10, 2025: Round 1 completed by this date. All folders have two GAC reads. Applications with either have no further review or one reviewer.
• February 1, 2025: All faculty 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

• 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?