UNC Chapel Hill, NLP track, one paper at ICML, one submitted to ACL, no interview, this hurts

Rejection from UNC Chapel Hill. Non CSE B.Tech. from IIT. 1.5 yrs work exp. as SDE. No publications.

This is MSCS rejection.

Applied on December 12, 2022 Here's my profile: BE Computer from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, India (2020) GPA: 8.6 / 10 GRE: 163 Q, 160 V, 4 AW TOEFL: 112 / 120 No research experience 1 project internship during final year (same was used as the capstone project) 2 years of experience as a test automation engineer in an MNC

Applied on November 11, 2022 Here's my profile: BE Computer from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, India (2020) GPA: 8.6 / 10 GRE: 163 Q, 160 V, 4 AW TOEFL: 112 / 120 No research experience 1 project internship during final year (same was used as the capstone project) 2 years of experience as a test automation engineer in an MNC

Bridge program. Applied on 18 Feb. 5k scholarship for the entire program...

International student with undergrad degree from the US. 2 publications (one outside of CS, one for a data science workshop), 2 years of undergrad AI research, 2.5 years of work experience as a software/machine learning engineer. Received results in the email itself.

It's not fair to get rejection just 4 days before the April 15th deadline, risking another offer. Same with Johns Hopkins University. Why do they keep us waitting, when they already have made their decisions. No waitlist, no rejection. In my country the application fee is the quarter of a monthly stipend. Not mentioning the time and energy... Being ghosted this way it's just not fair.