Generic rejection email. Was my top choice :(

General rejection mail...

TPB: Rejection doesn't mean you are not good enough, just profs find someone better matches their interest than you.

Undergrad, HCI focus. 5 conference publications with 3 top-tier pubs as first author and 2 second-tier pubs as coauthor. Meet possible POI about 2 years ago at the conference, and knowing that my advisor has some connection with this POI. Heart broken results, but still need some improvements to get in I guess. Congrats to all who got admission :)

Universities should start mentioning reason for reject atleast so we get to know where to improve

Expected, but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt. 1st rejection of the season.

Had an interview on Jan 31st (exactly a week ago) -- yes, I'm the poster about the interview below.

No interview. As expected..

Ain't this a thing. 0 interviews so far and rejects are piling up. Cheers!

Had a brief skype interview.

I thought I had a chance.

generic email: We regret to inform you that we will not be offering you admission to the Ph.D. program at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We received over 2200 applications this year and were not able to admit all competitive applicants. The Graduate Admissions Committee evaluated the applications very carefully and had to make difficult decisions, denying admission to many excellent candidates because of the limited number of available slots Guess this isn't my year at all :|

We regret to inform you that we will not be offering you admission to the Ph.D. program at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We received over 2200 applications this year and were not able to admit all competitive applicants. The Graduate Admissions Committee evaluated the applications very carefully and had to make difficult decisions, denying admission to many excellent candidates because of the limited number of available slots.

Met one of the POIs mentioned by chance recently, and I think he has no idea that I had applied even though he is familiar with my work....Do they even really look at all the applications?!?