to the poster below on AI/CV admit, what is your profile and when were you reached out for an interview? also, which PI did you mention in SOP?

Area: AI/CV

Scheduling Skype interviews with faculty via email.

Hey, IIT guy below. Which track did you apply to? What was the mail about? PhD offer or interview? Can you please elaborate your profile like scores and research experience?

IIT 8.5/10. Applied for MS and not PhD. Email from POI.

Received an email asking to set up a time for an interview. Subfield is Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean (NT/EC focus).

Emailing with department chair and a professor in my subfield

Scheduling interviews with faculty

Admitted to the Geotechnical Engineering (GEO) area in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

They were sending out interview invites this week but I wasn't shortlisted. Got a mail rejection this morning. Ah well, the grapes are sour anyway. Time to go panic about the other programs I've applied to.

Not overly surprised, but it wasn't one of my top choices so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Email: "Unfortunately I write to tell you that we are moving on to the interview stage, but your application is not one that our full faculty review identified for an interview. We know that this is not the news you wanted to here [sic], and that you put a great deal of time into your application. There was a very competitive pool this year and many interesting applications are not moving forward to interviews. We encourage you to reach out, ideally around September, for feedback towards a future application."