Excellent LORs, publication record in CVPR/KDD/etc, prior work experience

@below Your friend got into the EECS PhD Program today?

TTPB: I applied to the 2-year Masters's program as well. Haven't heard back anything yet.

Anyone who applied to 2-year MS only program at UCB, heard back something? Will there be interviews for MS as well?

TTPB: To the international student from India, could you kindly let me know what track/research stream did you opt for and your undergrad institution? Seems like UCSD is rolling their decisions out this year. Thank you :)

My first admit! I'm super excited since it's one of my top choices and I'm an international student from India. Let's gooo!!

Interviewed today with a professor (applied ML). Went well until the theory questions, which I may have messed up by trying to go too fast, saying the wrong answer, and then being told I was wrong and then talking it out slowly. IDK if that's actually bad though.

TTLPB: I agree with you. Applying to grad school, especially top ones, could be very frustrating. I am grateful to have such a place where we can see results in live-action as well as those from previous years. Certainly better than waiting for responses blindly. Grad Admission Committees sometimes hold rejection letters to the very last minute and it does not feel great from the perspective of applicants. The least we could do, as applicants, is to try to work together and provide accurate information for each other.

@below, because posting that you got rejected on a day when you haven't yet (and perhaps will be placed on a waitlist) defeats the purpose of posting in the first place. This website exists for anonymous posters to give information to future applicants (including the day that said rejections/acceptances/waitlists/interview requests actually come out!) not for individuals like yourself to show everyone that you have "given up hope" - no one even knows who you are... this site is anonymous! (I didn't apply to Berkeley and have no "false hope", it just sort of bugs me when people do this. I hope this does not come off as angry, just trying to voice my opinion)

@below If someone hasn't gotten an email the 3rd-5th they are rejected as noted by several others on here. Why hold false hope?

Posting rejected before officially finding out is rather silly @below, even if nearly certain

I agree with the last guy, if we haven't received anything we were rejected.

I am sad. Everyone is holding out to get admitted. But they probably already sent out all of the admits so there is no point to clinging to hope. We were rejected. Had an interview too. :(

Email from the committee. Area: AI / Theory. One informal interview.

TTPB who asked the question: I submitted all my applications about 5 days within the deadlines. My "Application Proof" says that I signed on December 14, so that's probably when I submitted. (I applied to RL/Theory, btw, so possibly that helped me a bit by not being as competitive as ML)

AI/ML. Received e-mail to check portal on 05-Feb-2021.

Area: AI/ML. Received e-mail to check portal on 5th Feb 2021.