Had one paper as an 2nd author in ICRA

No interviews.

QIS-ex, no GRE

a little bit unexpected but nothing is impossible. stats given by the professor during the virtual tour suggested they take ~20 phds per year so i thought it's 90%+ confirmed and the interview is just a sanity check since the interview pool is ~ 20 people. judging by the stats here it seems like there's a 50% rejection rate out of those ~20 people. for future interviewees, you should def contact as many professor as possible

Applied with 3.66 after 7 semesters (out of 8), applied as a domestic student with BSc. from outside US. Co-authored 3 Q1 publications, 1 first author conference.

Recieved the email from a name different than the one signing the rejection email…. Offered masters

Rejected and I'm in a T5 MS Biostatistics program.

1 yr research experience, 1 first-author publication. cold email with rejection asking me to consider master's program