Computer Science PhD Graduate School Admission Results

Area: Robotics/ML

I interviewed three weeks ago. Does anyone know when the deposit deadline? the website is really confusing

3 Publications in A* ML confs. Intern at FAAMG. Undergrad from tier 1 university in India.

TTPB: Compare to the people who get into these schools? At least this year your profile 'is' average (not the whole pool but the pool that got accepted). There are so many applicants with more than 3+ publications in top conferences, whether that is a good phenomenon I don't know but it is what it is at the current stage. I know one person who got into Stanford has 5 publications in Neurips, ICML, and ICRL... don't even know why that person even needs a Ph.D.

TTPB: Unrelated to the question. I had a couple of interviews too, though not all went well. Could you please describe what they asked you in your formal interview?

TTPB. I think I would be the best judge for my profile, in MY field and trust me I have enough indicators from other good schools for the same. Although I didn't mention that this is one of the top profile, but I would certain not call it average. Even if it is average, how does that justify a professor willing to take you on but can't because of the strong hold of a committee who is infamous for their weird criteria of rejection. I have also heard that the dropout rate for CMU is very high. This definitely makes me wonder that the randomness factor is extremely high for CMU.

Applied to ML and LTI. Interviewed by profs in LTI mid Jan (thought it went well—they were definitely nice). Rejected by LTI a few days ago and ML today. 3.97gpa dual degree math and CS in top 20 US university. GRE 169Q, 166V, 5.0A. Research, papers, posters, Google/Microsoft internships, national research scholarships. What can I say—crazy year for AI/ML admissions. Congrats to those who got in and good luck to the rest to find a good fit somewhere else.

I had my interviews (1 formal interview and 1 small chat about my grades) in the last week which means some decisions are yet to come.

Evaluation score: 7.5. To the candidates that got an interview, what was your evaluation score?

Has anyone been accepted and received an invitation to a virtual visit day? Does anyone know when? I have not heard back from NYU, should I assume that I have been rejected?

TTPB: Dude, honestly with the current situation of AI/ML your profile is average in the pool (good in other fields). So don't bash CMU, from what I know CMU is one of the few top schools that actually even give students with fewer publications a chance and read your SOP closely while Stanford just weeds out based on your profile. Don't really know about MIT...

TTPB: I am the one who posted that I got accepted below your post. Don't get discouraged! The acceptance email comes with an invitation to visit day on 23rd Feb. I believe anyone who will be accepted should get a notice before 23rd.

(ML Department). Background: MS CS from a top university for AI in the US. 1 first author publication in a top ML theory conference. Undergrad from a tier 1 engineering institute in India. Low undergraduate GPA (7.6/10), but that was in 5 years ago. Masters GPA 3.95. I had only heard that CMU metrics were weird, and now I have seen them. I had spoken with a professor who would have admitted me had I passed the first round. If this is their way of selecting candidates, is CMU even a dream school? I am sure MIT, Stanford have a more clear criteria of selecting candidates. CMU isn't so great in TCS anyway! P.S. By top I mean ranked within top 15 of US news and top 10 engineering schools in India.

MLD department, more than 1000 applicants

Official email (MLD)

Bachelor only from young Russian uni GPA 3.53/4.0; 1.5 years research experience; 5 articles published. Overall score: 6/10. 2 rejections left in this season.

Profile Evaluation score 6