Graduate School Admission Results

TTPB: Well if they send a mail saying there is an update in the portal, you go check. And if the poral takes 48 hours to reflect the goddamn change, you check MULTIPLE times in those 48 hours because you're anxious. Which is f***g torture.

TTPB : what the fuck do you mean by mistreatment. They didn't tell you to keep checking the portal. Update pending means it's an internal process and they need to update it, not you. If you guys keep checking the portal every 5 mins, it is not they who mistreated you! Also, you get a notification email from them a few hours later. So, if you check after you get the mail, you could see the results right when you are supposed. Wtf is with the rant!

3.94 GPA in Mathematics Undergrad from top 10 uni. 170/160/6 for Q/V/A in GRE. Two research placements during undergraduate and no prior internships. No publications. Focussed on causal inference in my SOP and Instructor of DL at NVIDIA. Stoked.

Generic reject message

TTPB who got accepted: Congrats! If you don't mind, could you please share PI initials? Also, did you have an interview?

I did it. I sent an email with the link below and my personal rant to gradadm@grad.umass.edu. You guys should do it too. NOBODY should get away with mistreatment. These guys don't deserve applicants.

Is there a group chat for admitted students?

Ignore Waitlist. What is the CS Grad Admissions upto? My application is still under review. Applied in December. This is how they treat their applicants. Also, wtf are they doing at 2 AM on a Monday morning, handing out rejects?

I am a MS/PhD Intl. applicant. I completely support all the RANTS going on here. This is simply ignorant, discourteous at several levels to all the applicants who have given out efforts , money to the university to face SHIT like this. I mean, Its the LAST DAY( i still don't feel it is though) , and No updates since ages. Application Under review. I have a moderate profile i feel , 3.9/4, 3 pubs, 1 Intl. tier 1 conf paper, 1 co author in A* conf , 1.5+ exp as ML eng at a major MNC, 2 research internships...and FML I still think I am rejected at this point. Maybe MS/PHD admits are not out for everyone, but the process is a honeslty a torture.

Their results process is literally the worst among all the universities that I applied to. **RANT BEGIN**. First of all, their portal is straight out of the 1990s/2000s and contains many UI dark patterns. Then the completely stupid process of "update pending" status in their application portal - why not simply send the result (even if it's a reject) via email - is it too difficult for the graduate committee to follow simple procedures. They made us wait for two whole days just to give a rejection - just send a mail instead - is it really that difficult? And finally, I have no idea of the basis on which they admit candidates. I am from a tier-1 institute with a high GRE/TOEFL score, multiple A* publications, and a high GPA. Certainly a better "profile" than many others that got admitted. Will be going to a top 8 university from which I have an admit. Am I salty and angry - yes, I absolutely am. **RANT END**

here goes my profile: Tier-1 university in India GRE 323 TOEFL 112 GPA 8.37/10 1 A* publication 6 Research projects with 2 being with international professors from esteemed universities. I'm not even fucking pissed, just goddamn confused

After checking for the 182nd time and after being on Update Pending for 48 hours, I am 'Denied' admission. Did not expect this - had a better profile than many who got admitted this year, last year and the year before that. Totally heartbroken. Moreover, the way they give out decisions is totally backwards - no email on denial of admission, hung on update pending, quite stressful. I think I am not going to recommend applying to UMass to anyone.

To those who got rejected from UIUC, did your status on the application portal change from "Awaiting Decision" to "Rejected"?

[ignore wailist] My status changed to Update pending today. Most likely a rejection since today is the last day of results. Anyways, fingers crossed. Anybody, whose status also changed?

I was one of the posters asking if they would tell me if I was on the waiting list before Jeff replied. but reading Jeff's explanation closely it sounds like we can assume we are rejected if we havent heard back but they havent sent rejections because some "late" faculty did not do anything yet. I appreciate he came here to reply to us and Jeff even said he does not do admissions. either way it's not okay to post racist garbage here and thankfully that post was deleted

To the comments below; I also don't really like the way that Brown is doing it, but it seems to be a pretty standard thing at a lot of schools. From my non-acceptances this year, less than half were prompt rejections - in my case, UT, UW, Stanford, and (if mid-March is prompt) Cornell. The pool of "undecided" schools was of a similar caliber mix as above, so it's hard to be mad at Brown for applying a common practice. Also, I can appreciate Jeff for explaining the situation for those who were just going off of hunches. Antagonizing him would be like killing the well-intended messenger.

Get ready for the pain train and the trail of red. Lel

I guess Stanford is planning to reject us all next week after the weekend huh. Those bastards. Just give me a quick death.

TTPB: I received it at 12:50 pm PDT