Undergrad in CS from low-tier midwestern R1. Did not submit GRE. No research experience. Rejected from MS but had application transferred to professional masters.

After careful review of your application to the Computer Science Master's degree program, the CSEN Admissions Committee is not able to offer you admissions to the Research Based Master's degree program. This year, the competition for admissions to the research based MS degree option was very high and a very limited number of students were selected for admission to this degree option. Admissions to the research based option is based on applicant's overall application, research experience and most importantly the research match with faculty advisors looking for specific background and skills and the research match. However, we are very impressed with your application/credentials and are interested in reviewing your application for the CSEN-MSCPS, course based degree option, therefore your application is now being moved from CSEN-MS to CSEN-MSCPS review team. You will see this change in your application portal. You will receive a decision after the review for CSEN MSCPS degree is complete by end of March. Students may switch from course based option to the research based option only once during their academic tenure here. In order to switch to the research based option, you will need to locate a CSEN faculty who is willing to serve as your research advisor and then submit a petition to the Graduate Committee. These petitions and reviewed and decided on a case by case basis. During the fall semester, there will be several pre-research advising sessions by faculties looking for research students, which will be your opportunity to learn more about research in the department, if you are interested switching options. You will hear from us regarding decisions by the end of March, 2021.

Applied for the Masters with a research focus and got rejected from that. However I am still being considered for the course based masters degree.

Being considered for course based MS instead

TTPB: No update has been posted to my portal yet. I am not sure what that means at this point.

Is there anyone whose portal has not been updated?

Has anyone received official offer/acceptance? They wrote on the website that “PhD applicants - You will be notified latest by end of February, if you have been admitted.”

[GPA is MA in Literature.]

Rejected for phd, accepted to MS but likely without funding

Got an email from my PI on Wednesday letting me know about my acceptance, got the official email today.

Reached out to dozens of faculty manually; most did not have funding, those that did sought to interview.

Supplement Research area is biophotonics assisted by ultrafast laser sources. Attended the virtual campus visit. Cannot wait to join CU Boulder! POI said they would have strong connection with NIST. Fantastic!!! Wish everybody could get the dream offers as well --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POI emailed me that the official offer would be sent to me by the end of Feb.

TTPB: Congrats. What's your research area? Did you attend the event as well?