This is a school full of legacy admits and rich kids anyway. Meritocracy is a blatant lie, no matter how hard I work I still have to "pay the price" for being born poor and nonwhite in this miserable excuse for a country. All these prestigious schools are the same -- they admit a handful of working class folks to serve as "inspirational stories" who are given the privilege of pursuing a doctoral degree, and the rest of us rejects have to beg for jobs that refuse to pay us what we're worth; meanwhile Jeff who's never paid for a bill in his life gets hired because his dad knows a guy at the country club. I hope all rich people lose their wealth and learn to live on the street like the rest of us "undesirables".

Emailed to check portal. No interview. No GRE. Three research experience. No publication.

10 years research experience, Masters degree, 3 pubs, 1 pub in progress

heartbreaking, this was my dream, perfect research match. but I think my GPA was just too low.

About damn time. Got interviewed too. Research honestly wasn't the best fit for me.

3 publications, 3 conference presentations

Undergrad in Physics

tier 1 undergrad, no research, stats major

Applied to Statistics and Data Science Department. 3.5 years of professional DS experience, 1 paper, research experience, international certificates (Tensorflow, SAS ML, SAS DL). My bachelor major was Economics, but still had hope:(

Interdisciplinary background with research experience in Computational Humanities, Natural Language Processing, and Computational Literary Analysis; had several research projects and two senior thesis; one publication in unrelated field)

5 research internships (all based in same area) , strong LORs, DAAD and MITACs scholar, first gen