Graduate School Admission Results

Interviewed with POI I listed in my SoP.

POI in ML contacted me today via email scheduling an interview

Had an informal chat with POI 01/20

Computer Vision

Generic rejection email received at 3:31pm PT. Graduated undergrad a year ago and currently working as a software engineer at a prestigious tech company in the Bay Area. Two prior internships at this same company, no research experience, no GRE. One academic reference from a professor, two work references from a senior engineer and a tech lead.

yikes

To the MF who is spamming the results, get the f away. There are students whose mental health depends on this too. So get lost you useless clown

3rd gen IIT (8.5+ CGPA), 324 in GRE. Decent to strong LoRs. Quite personalized SoP mentioning groups with whom I would like to work. No pubs but 9 months of part-time research experience in ML applications. 5 months of ongoing work exp at an MNC at the time of applying. Congrats to all the admits! Rejects: dont worry, theres another door of opportunity waiting!

Can't believe I got in, so happy! This is to everyone who said I couldn't make it because I'm a female minority applicant. Sorry waitlisters, but this spot is taken!

Took Stanford courses NDO, got a 4.2 GPA (only As and A+s), worked in a Stanford lab for a year, won project awards in my Stanford courses. A bunch of other stuff as well, but if I mention them it will be very easy to identify me. Good SOP, extremely strong LORs written by an impressive group that included Stanford professors. There are people out there saying that if you get a graduate certificate at Stanford you are basically guaranteed admission. This is NOT the case; I know of 3-4 people in similar shape to me that got rejected this cycle.

Indian student, Old IIT, GPA 9.7+ Exp: 2 research internships (Univs) + 1 industry internship, and some research done under UG Thesis Total 5 papers (but none of them is in a top A* venue and I'm the first author for only one of them). Graduated last year and am currently in an AI residency role at a FAANG company.

Top 5 IIT B.Tech. in CS. 1 publication and 1 under review. Had a top HFT internship and an university internship.

IR2 from a mid tier IIT. 2 research internships in universities with one of them being international. 1.5 years of work experience ~FAANG. 1 conference paper (A) and 2 journals under submission, all first author. Systems and Networking background. Congrats to all other admits, looks like they only take a couple of Old IITans and an exceptional candidate from normal college in India.