Not trying to start a drama but this is actually insane wtf and I want to know if anyone else has heard about it from what I heard from a friend, around 7 students from Egypt got accepted into MBZUAI UG during the ED round, around December and like some of them even went to candidate weekend ( CW ) met people, had fun and were basically treated like admitted students who were going to join Now, months later i heard that around 5 out of those 7 Egyptian students were told they cant attend this intake because of post offer government approvals / clearances / visa related issues. thats soooo brutal think that getting accepted, celebrating, possibly making plans around MBZUAI, attending CW, telling your family, maybe turning down other options and mot even applying to other potential university and even ivy league maybe even having gold olympiad or something because you got accepted for early decision in mbzuai , and then months later being told “sorry, we can’t proceed” for reasons that apparently arent even related to your academics i get that universities may have government clearance processes, especially in the UAE, but then why are students being given offers and brought into admitted student events before this is fully resolved? this can literally mess up someone’s entire college plan and its soo wierd im not claiming to know the full story, and i dont want to spread misinformation this is just what I heard and seen in the mail of a student from egypt , so please correct me if there is more context. But if this is true, it really deserves attention because admitted students should not be left in this kind of uncertainty for months Has anyone else heard about this? were students from other countries affected too? submitted by /u/Late-Particular9795
Originally posted by u/Late-Particular9795 on r/ArtificialInteligence