First gen college student, GPA 3.98/4.0, 2 publications, 2 SE internships, multiple international scholarships and programs

Area: machine learning & optimization

They explicitly mentioned not all acceptance letters have been sent out yet and want us to keep this in mind when sharing status on social media. Fingers crossed for everyone who's waiting!

5 pubs all top conference in GNN/Recommendation System. 2 first author; 3 second author.

Notice from poi that formal acceptance email coming out this week

Systems and Architecture. Contacted by POI for interview.

Interview with PI not mentioned in CV

POI, theory

Interview, contacted by the PI. Hold a master's from ETH in Robotics. Collaborated with Harvard lab for master's thesis. Strong LORs from 2 Harvard Professors and 1 ETH Professor.

M.Eng Program

Recommended admission to M.Eng 1 year CS at Ithaca campus, formal offer to follow within 5 days. British CS undergraduate at Edinburgh, high First Class average. Lots of relevant extracurriculars, FAANG/HFT/startup SWE internships. Separately offered a Fulbright award that could be used to fund it. Other offer from UPenn MSE. Did no GRE, but it wasn't required for this program

No GRE, 3+ years teaching experience, 5+ publications includng 2 Q1 journals