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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.

There is now a "My Unread Files" button on the left of your review interface in the Query menu, to show you your unread folders only.
New GRE Quantitative and Verbal Scoring band, conversations and explanations are here: New GRE
Average AA test scores of admitted students from Fall 2013 are here: 2013 Average Test Scores (also gives TOEFL information).
The 2010 US News and World Report Rankings for Engineering Schools are here: USN&WR Rankings
Peterson's Online Guide! Just type the school you're looking for into the search bar at the top! http://www.petersons.com/
Rankings on Indian engineering schools here
Fulbright Fellowships
Brazilian national Fellowships (MIT specific)
2014 US Air Force Academy Statistics
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 (from Dean Christine Ortiz, 10/13)

You can send mail to the entire GAC via aagac@mit.edu.
Any difficulties, please mail Brian Wardle (wardle@mit.edu) or Beth Marois (bethamar@mit.edu)
The 2013-2014 GAC members are here: Aero Astro Grad Admissions Committee Members
Dec 2011 Faculty News Letter article on Institute Grad Admissions by Christine Ortiz
There is now a "My Unread Files" button on the left of your review interface in the Query menu, to show you your unread folders only.
Letter templates (admissions, waitlist, rejections, etc.) are here
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
- G = GRE
- T = transcript

Intended meaning of scores for GAC:
- 4: Definite Admit
- 3: Admissible
- 2: Possibly admissible (unlikely to be admitted – probably shouldn't be read by sector)
- 1: Probable reject (not worth sending to sector)
- 0: Definite reject (consider summary rejection by GAC chair)
  (The parenthetical interpretation of the scores above is at the GAC level only. The scores at the sector level are purely for ranking candidates.)
As of 2011, we no longer fast-track students.
Send to sector criterion:
- A folder will be sent to the sectors for additional reviews if it receives no more than one score of 2 or lower.
- Under-represented groups will be sent to the sector for additional reviews if it receives two scores of 2 or higher. If a woman or URM gets a 3+ as their first review, they will immediately be sent for faculty review.
- A tiebreaker application will only be sent to the 2nd round with a 3 or better as the tie review
Reject criterion:
- GAC will usually not ask sector for review if it receives 2 or more scores of 2 or lower.
- "0 & 1" policing will be done by GAC chair to facilitate expediting poor applications. Chair Note: via Action pulldown, unassign reader via "Remove assignment" and mark as "Probable Reject" via "Add tag"

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