Got an unofficial call two weeks ago. My official offer came with a top off fellowship for 4 years.

No interviews beforehand.

Had only submitted my TOEFL of 100/120. 2.5 years of work experience.

Interview with POI I listed in my SoP and reached out to.

MS CS(AI) admit

2nd interview with non-POI on 1/23 for CV. Heard from nowhere else so far.....

Systems and Architecture. Contacted by POI for interview.

AI Group

CS(AI); International student; 6 months work ex at the time of application; 1 co-author research paper; 1 international research internship; Bachelors GPA 9.66/10; TOEFL 107; Applied on 3rd December; Is there any discord channel for accepted candidates?

POI from SOP reached out for a chat!

Robotics

MSCS(DS) track; applied at 3/12/2022; CGPA: 9.7; TOEFL: 104; 2 research papers; exp: 1.5 years in ML/AI(internships); 4 great open source ML projects; 4 good-great LoRs; pretty good technical SoP focusing on multimodal fusion & geometric deep learning;

MSCS(AI) track; applied at 3/12/2022; CGPA: 9.7; TOEFL: 104; 2 research papers; exp: 1.5 years in ML/AI(internships); 4 great open source ML projects; 4 good-great LoRs; pretty good technical SoP focusing on multimodal fusion & geometric deep learning;

Applied on Dec 15, admitted to the MS in Artificial Intelligence program today. Got an email today saying decision letter is available with link to the portal, letter dated Jan 18. International student, doing my undergrad at a US university. GPA 3.865, TOEFL 118, didn't submit GRE. No previous industry internship but a few undergrad research experiences plus one conference paper, stated in my SoP that I want to pursue research. 2 LoRs from profs who supervised/mentored my research.

connected by a prof not mentioned in the application