Received the unofficial offer on Jan 17 and the official offer on Jan 18.

Chem GRE +90%, TOEFL +100, undergrad from a university ranked around 700, many awards, no pubs.

Canadian undergrad. Interviews happening Jan 20-21.

First acceptance!! Undergrad from top IIT (India), 9+ GPA, 2 papers at moderate venues (first author, 1 under review), 2 DS internships (incl. at MNC), GRE 335 (170Q), good relation with LoR writers. Having good extracurriculars and being able to talk about my industrial internship experience helped a lot in the interview.

Interviewed on 17th Jan. Data Science concentration.

Formal interview invite.

Official interview invites sent from PI. Recruitment day Jan 27-28.

Had interviews with 3 prospective supervisors in cognitive neuroscience in late Dec/early Jan. All invited me to the recruitment event (Jan 27-28).

I had a prelim interview with the supervisor in Jan, 11 and she informed me on Jan, 12 that I have been rejected.

E-mail from potential advisor for the formal interviews

Interviewed by my favour POI today.

Canadian student - invited to two informal interviews, one on the 7th and one on the 10th.

Interviewed on December 30th. The professor said you should hear back in mid-Feburary. 1 CVPR second author, 1 ICLR first author.