Computer Science Graduate School Admission Results

TTPB: Got email from committee, saying formal notification will be sent later

Continuing to PhD from a combined BS/MS program. Have 1 publication. Interviewed two weeks ago.

TTPB: Did you get an official letter from the department or just an unofficial letter?

TTPB: Would you mind sharing the initials of which HCI professor reached out to you? Thanks in advance!

Interview from HCI group. Very surprised.

TTPB: My interviewer told me the results will be out this week.

area: PL

TTPB: I thought/heard Stanford doesn't really do interviews for Computer Science. Only some departments do, maybe, but the vast amount of candidates don't get an interview. Can anyone confirm?

TTPB: I agree with you, that is a possibility. I was even expecting an interview from Stanford but now I'm living on the edge. IMO, interview turnout should about 50-70%. Did the POI tell you about the result data? Past years trend shows that it should in the second week of Feb.

TTPB, I agree with most of the points, just want to add that people might not report their rejection as much as admissions. So maybe many people who got interviewed but got rejected later during the past years didn't really post the rejections, given the anonymity here. Just a thought :)

Email from PI on 1/27 and from another on 2/1.

If they screened people out can they just send out the rejections? This is killing all of us. Just in case they accept someone in the rejection pile I bet no one will complain about that.

CS undergrad. 3.5 years full-time engineering experience.

TTPB: Thanks for the information. I wonder how will they select 'k' candidates? If they had already ranked candidates then why bothering taking interviews for candidates, not in top 'k'? I checked gradcafe for the rejection after the interview post from 2017-2020, seems like only a couple of people get rejected after the interview. I am just speculating, we have to wait for one more week. My interview was taken by POI mentioned in SoP, but he hasn't read my SoP for sure. Maybe the committee screened the candidates and forwarded them to POI for their further comments.

TTPB: To the MILA post - when did you get the interview invite? What was the interview like and please share your POI initials.

TTPB: have contacted some people who either worked at Stanford as an intern or are doing a PhD there. Basically, they send out twice the amount of interview invites as those they can admit. The interviewers are on the behalf of the committee, but judging from the posts here it seems that most candidates are interviewed by their POI for some reason. My guess is that getting an interview only means a profile is in the top 2k (k = admits), so interview results are only supplementary.

Does getting an interview implies that we are close to being accepted? I heard most of the interviews were informal, was it just a sanity check?

Invited to online interview

UIUC

Area: Security; wondering if NCSU CSC has sent all results today?