First good news of this year! Got RAship + TAship + Fellowship. Profile: 116 in TOEFL; 25+ awards in tech/business competitions. 12 publications (1 journal; 11 conference (most not good but a few quite good - ubicomp; r10 htc)), involvement with IEEE on intl level ( I am a Richard E merwin scholar of ieee computer society); 6 months work experience in a government FAB Lab.

Website saying that I am academically eligible.

No formal research experience. Two internships during undergrad (9 months and 6 months) + 1 year working full time as software engineer.

Informal acceptance from Professor. Official letter will come in 2 weeks. Had 30 minutes technical interview related to my research interests on 15th January. Masters GPA: 3.67, 8 Publications (1 Journal, 4 Conference, 3 Posters), 1 Patent, 1 very strong and 2 strong letters of recommendation. Lots of teaching experience, talks, and presentations. One year of research experience in the industry and one year of experience as a developer. Congratulations to all who were accepted.

For those who were admitted to USC, can you post when you applied/how long it took to get a decision?

Summer 2019

I submitted my application in 14 September; haven't heard from them. Classes begin in 40 days. I wonder when are they going to send decision results !

Anyone get a decision from the CS department?

One publication, 3.5 years of research, half a year of full time research at USC 4.0 in post-bacc CS classes

Not surprised. Deferred from Fall 2018.

1 paper in the field of NLP and 1 Bachelors Thesis paper submitted, 2 research internships and 2 very strong LORs, Overall a nice SOP.

Theory