unofficial email from admissions committee. They explicitly mention that they are processing applications on a rolling basis so it might take a few weeks for everyone to hear back.

Official letter from the chair. This year the admission is rolling-based (explicitly mentioned in the email), so best of the luck for everyone!

Previous poster: I applied for a PhD in physics (physics education focused) I mis-wrote they wanted fall 2020 transcript. Haven't heard since

Unofficial announcement from POI

Based on the content of the comments below, I enthusiastically wanted to say that I am VERY GLAD to know that the Information Science Department at Cornell also seems to place a strong value in accepting students interested in qualitative research :)))

Got a call from the DGS. Couldn't be happier!

LITERALLY CRYING 3a/1r/8p

TTPB: Was this official or unofficial acceptance into PhD?

TTPB: okay, now we're just making up priors xD — as far as my own estimation goes, it's nothing quite this fancy. Let's just call it a well-educated guess and see how the final decisions pan out :)

Had to send them an email to find out status after applying by priority deadline. Best of luck to other applicants.

Continuing to PhD from a combined BS/MS program. Have 1 publication. Interviewed two weeks ago.

TPBB: Did you receive the email from the economics department? I haven't heard back yet

TTPB: I am just curious -- was your method of arriving at the ~50% figure if not by some kind of loose estimation like the one I used? But fair point. Let me revise. (Fwiw, I thought the 14 was referring to the number of accepted students not matriculations). But anyway: (1) About 20% of accepted IS students post on here. But an interview is less of a big deal, so let's assume only 10% of interviewees post here. (2) Then 10 * 6 posts = 60 estimated interview invites. (3) To achieve 14 students enrolling, Cornell has to accept twice as much due to 50% yield rate. So there will be 28 acceptances. (4) Then the post-interview acceptance rate is 28/60 ~ 46%. Same number mwahaha ;)

Rejected via email, not website

TTPB: I do think, based on my own sleuthing, that the post-interview acceptance rate is just below 50%, though your numbers and assumptions are a bit off. For starters, in order to fill 14 spots, Cornell has to accept about twice that number, given that the historical yield rate for Cornell IS has hovered around 50%. This indicates that one can't use the "acceptance to posted acceptance" ratio (your step 1) to approximate the "interview to posted interview invite" (step 2) — the explanation for this is that an applicant is probably more inclined to post about an acceptance than about an interview.