<p>Ok, I have a couple questions. I am going to sound really dumb, but do engineering schools (all or any) do interviews after accepting an application for graduate school? All the things I have submitted have not mentioned that at all, but I have never heard anything to say definitively that no one does interviews.</p>
<p>Secondly, when you get a response from a school, is it usually an email or snail mail or do you have to go look at your application (such as on applyweb) and notice that it says something like "admitted" instead of the current "under review"?</p>
<p>Lastly, if anyone in here has gotten into Purdue engineering (if you are mechanical that is even better), can you comment on how long it took them to review your file after all of your materials were received?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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Secondly, when you get a response from a school, is it usually an email or snail mail or do you have to go look at your application (such as on applyweb) and notice that it says something like "admitted" instead of the current "under review"?
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<p>All of my things were done online. Most schools sent me an e-mail with a notification of their decision (one of the schools that rejected me never even sent me a snail-mail letter), though I think Northwestern used a website that I had to keep checking to see if my status had changed.</p>
<p>The only school I was involved with that did interviews towards admissions was Caltech. They flew around 20 of us out for interviews, and I think they gave most of us acceptances. It was mostly to make sure there was a lab we'd all be happy working in and that sort of stuff. All of my other schools accepted me, then flew me out to interview with professors so I could get an idea of if I'd like to attend there or not.</p>
<p>UT-Austin, Berkeley and Princeton were the only ones that notified me online. Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Columbia were all through snail mail (strange as everything was submitted online). It was reminiscent of undergrad as they were usually big packages that signaled acceptance immediately. If the school likes you, they will offer to fly you out for interviews to decide who gets funding. This was for structural engineering, but its similar for a lot of other engineering programs from what I hear.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your help guys. With the interviews, that is kind of what I thought but I wanted to make sure.</p>