Got several papers in AAAI, COLING, EMNLP-WMT, NIPS, NAACL etc (four of them as a first author), Masters in NLP specialization from CMU

8 papers: 4 first author + 4 more, Masters from CMU

Generic rejection email.

No guaranteed funding

To the poster asking below, LTI.

Too bad for Cornell. I can find another university, Cornell cannot find another me.

Expected. Happy Chinese new year! ------- On behalf of the Graduate Faculty in Computer Science, I regret to inform you that your application for admission to the Ph.D. Program in Computer Science has not been approved. Since the number of students who can be accepted is limited and the overall quality of applicants is very high, it is not possible to accept many excellent students who are interested in coming to Cornell. We appreciate your interest in Cornell and wish you success in continuing your studies at another university.

To the CMU PhD posters below: Is this for the ML/Robotics Department? Or is it for LTI?

Area : NLP

No indication of funding: "unfortunately, we are not able to offer you a guarantee of financial support"

2 papers accepted + 2 under review.

MIIS rejected. CMU, 20 yrs from now and ur sorry ass gonna be all about regretting how u once let go of a chance to be the alma mater of a turing award winner

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

Rejected extremely unfairly. Bad selection criteria - Advisor who has funding only they will get you in the Ph.D. program regardless of how good work you have done during your master's program. SOP, Research papers, Recommendation letters - None of that matters. Admission committee doesn't even think that they are playing with the lives of students. Dejected with this horrible selection process. Worked really hard - will exit without a Ph.D. from here.

Expected a reject from MLT. Hopefully, I get into a mid-tier school.