Dear X,   Congratulations!  On behalf of the Department of Computer Science it is our pleasure to inform you that we have selected you for admission to the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Iowa State University, contingent upon your admission to the ISU Graduate College.  Admission to our graduate program in the Department of Computer Science is extremely competitive. Each year we are able to accept only a very small portion of applicants.   In addition to admission, we are pleased to offer you support for your first two years (18 months – nine months per academic year) of study1.   Academic year 2017 (August 2017 – May 2018) and Academic Year 2018 (August 2018 – May 2019) TA, $2,000/month stipend (9 months, total of  $18,000) 100% tuition scholarship (fall and spring semesters, estimated total of $23,623.40 for International  Tuition)

Handwritten note: "this is strong work" at the bottom of the form rejection. Don't know if it's better or worse to have apparently come close. Oh well. 2a/0w/6r.

Interview through Skype on Jan. 12th. 2017. The professor told me that I am on the shortlists. But no admission decision till now. Today I made an international phone call to the admission office to check the current status. The officer told me that I am on the wait-list and I will be notified approximately late March to early April. Sad.

I called Admissions last week and she told me that the letters should coming out this week. Some will be acceptances, most will be formal rejections. Good luck!

I've seen several decisions posted from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. On my Admissions Profile, the admission decision still says "in progress." Is anyone else still waiting to hear from Iowa?

Not in the least bit surprised, just figured I'd try/take a chance with this one :) Congrats to those on the waitlist/accepted!

1 Conference, 1 Publication

no word on funding yet!

Email from Sam Chang. "Not a very long" waitlist. It's my top school! I'm so pleased, so anxious, and so very hopeful.