To the poster below: Did you get acceptance from professor or get an official offer? And can you please tell your research field?

To posts below: Not everyone is interviewed, please are accepted without interviews. UT Austin releases CS PhD admits in late January (next week). I was not contacted by them, I have applied to Computer Vision/ML.

To posts below: Thanks for your info. How do you know Austin usually handles application in early Jan? Does no interview mean rejection for sure?

To the question asking person below - I am at CMU as a masters in Language Technologies student and got this info speaking with potential advisor

No financial aid received.

CMU poster below: how did you know of this? Was it from a professor you had contacted beforehand?

LTI Ph.D rejected - notification from professor.

Interview with prof. Admission is departmental but POI can accept candidates directly. 5 pubs (2 first author). 1 pending to top conference. 1 internship. 5 years combined research exp (NSF REU/RA). Strong LORs from NASA/CERN/Distinguished profs.

Just finished interviewing.

To posts below: Austin usually handles application in early Jan. They have already made internal decision now and offers would be sent out in late Jan. If you didn't hear from austin, it should be a strong signal that you're not on the list.

Interviewed with my POI, and I was told that this year they prefer international students as PhD but not Masters. I think that's because the tuition for PhD students are the same between international and domestic students, but not for master. Professor told me if I was interested in doing PhD but I said I was not ready for PhD now and preferred doing the master first, then maybe continue as a PhD student. Waiting for reply since.

Notified via email. Thrilled, but waiting for a better college. 2 years of work-ex in relevant domain(security), strong LORs and open-source contributions. No papers.

An interview request from PoI. Area: Robotics

I worked with a professor there as summer research intern and published a paper with him (as a third author). He promised to take me as his PhD student.

Got interview call with prof from OR in ISE department. Prof was not mentioned in my SOP.