Received an email at 2:40am that the status of my application has changed. Links to the application page where it shows that I was accepted. My Background: undergraduate degree BS in Mech Eng. Top 20 school. 3 years of Engineering work experience with a decent amount of work in programming.

Please decline your offers from this university immediately if you have better options :(( I have no admission yet and need you to decide soon :((((( bad moments.

To the admitted poster below, did you take the one-way digital interview? If yes, when did you take it? Also, did your recommenders get any verification emails?

Non-CS bachelor's degree from IIT, 1 yr research experience and no pubs. 1st admit of the season. Relieved..

Anyone who knows friends that got the admission in Computer Science program from this school but not need it please tell them "Reject it". Please help me, I am desperate and I'll be forever in your debt.

To the accepted Phd on 7 Feb 2019: Could you please have you received any fund at texas tech?

Rejecting the offer from this school immediately if you do not need it, please. I have no admission now, and my future is at stake.

I didn't receive any email from UIUC nor did I received any update from them on my application page. I logged in to my account on 15th March to check for the result and there was no update on the application decision. It still displays "Awaiting Decision". I tried contacting UIUC, but they are not responding to my emails. Can someone please tell what exactly can be the reason? Am I waitlisted? PS: I have submitted all the required documents, and I have submitted my application before the deadline.

TTPB: I applied for the M. Eng. CS at Cornell.

Do you guys think the results will come over the weekend or on Monday April 1st?

TPB. Your background looks strong. Not sure of your area or degree type. If you are applying for Ph.D. (or top-notch research masters like Berkeley's or Cornell's), the admission is very situational and there is no way to find any criteria or threshold. You often see people doing their master from CMU with 3+ top conference papers got rejected; the most common practice for securing a slot is to get very strong RLs from someone who directly knows one's ROIs (previous co-workers etc), and quite frankly for those who do not have that would hardly stand a chance. If you applied to professional master programs, it is indeed very strange you didn't get any admits. But shit does happen. There are people who got admitted to top-4 without extracurricular experiences and so the opposite could occur as well.

3rd AD! Difficult Choices!

TTPB: Yocket posters are all MEng, which has slightly lesser requirements than the MS CS. Not sure which one you applied for. Cornell's MS CS is incredibly hard to get into, their requirements are pretty crazy. I heard their overall batch size last year was 14 students.

I notice some more acceptances are out. People on yocket have gotten in with 312 and 320 GREs. I know GRE isn't the only criterion, but I have a 335 GRE, a 9.5/10 GPA from a decent Indian University, 116 TOEFL, an international conference review publication, a national conference best presentation award, two other research experiences, a bunch of decent ML/AI projects, two software engineering and one data science internships. I don't quite understand what colleges want. Rejected by Toronto, Princeton, UCB, Stanford, ETH, CU Boulder (seriously?), Austin, UIUC and a bunch of others. Columbia interviewed me in February and are ghosting me since then, and Amherst is still stuck on review.

My application is still under review and I REALLY REALLY hope it's not gonna be a reject. I'm crushed by 7 straight rejections already I don't think I can handle any more. All the best to everyone who's in the under review gang with me.

IIT Delhi, 7.5/10, 2 yrs work exp.

MMath CS (Thesis). Unofficial mail from a POI. We've been corresponding over email the last 4-5 days. Super excited!

Same here. Mine still f u c k ing under review. I am well-prepared for receiving general rejection in April :'(