JotCast | Applied Graduate Student Chat, February 14, 2019

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:01

Good day, all. My name is Will Fenton and I'm the Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions at Penn Engineering. I'm here to answer questions you may have about our Graduate Programs, life as a graduate student at Penn and living in Philadelphia.

Changrui

10:01

Hello?

Feng Chen

10:01

Is the cheat begin?

Mingquan Ye

10:01

Hi, Professor

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:02

hello all, and good day!

Mingquan Ye

10:02

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:02

All PhD Decisions are made on a rolling basis and are sent out when the dept notifies the admissions office.

Huiyang Ding

10:02

Guest

10:02

Hey

Feng Chen

10:02

Hi, Professor, nice to meet you.

Gunendra

10:02

hello

Chengzhe Wang

10:02

Morning! Really glad to join in this chat for the first time.

Guest

10:02

Hello, since a little more than 8 weeks have passed since the CIS PhD application deadline, is it safe to assume that all the offers have been sent?

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:03

Guest, offers are still being made and every applicant will receive a decision.

Subhamoy

10:03

Hello and good day to you too.

Guest

10:03

Hello, good morning.

Ikenna

10:03

Hello

Kalyan

10:03

HI, WIll

Archit Saxena

10:03

Hi Will

Jiawei Liu

10:03

Hannah

10:03

Hi!

Feng,Taoxing

10:03

Hello

Jianjin Xu

10:03

Hi, Professor. And happy Valentine's day everyone!

Ikenna

10:03

Approximately when will decisions be made for Masters programs?

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:04

Ikenna, master's decisions are sent out either on April 5th or May 15th, depending on the program to which you applied. You can find the specifics here: https://gradadm.seas.upenn.edu/how-to-apply/

River

10:04

Likewise

Kalyan

10:04

Nice to meet you.

Wentao

10:04

Hello Will

Changrui

10:04

Sorry for missing so many chat before, my Thursday lecture ended finally

Ameya Chaudhari

10:04

When are the M.Eng results out?

Archit Saxena

10:04

I wanted to ask when results will be declared for cs program as it's been a month since I applied

Feng Chen

10:04

Hi, Professor, would we receive our application result from email or from the application web page of UPenn?

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:04

All, the decisions for master's programs are released on set dates, you can find them here: https://gradadm.seas.upenn.edu/how-to-apply/

10:05

You will receive an email that you have a decision and you will be able to see the decision by logging into your application account.

Ikenna

10:05

Thank you!

Sashimi

10:05

Hi Will, Can I know the admission statistics of MSE Embedded System in previous year ?

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:07

Sashimi, yes, we had 158 applications last year and admitted 14.8%

Archit Saxena

10:07

Same question as Feng

Chengzhe Wang

10:07

So it means that I cannot receive my decision before April 5th?

Will Fenton, Asst Dir

10:07

Chengzhe, yes.

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