IIT Undergrad. 1 Paper at a national conference. Field ML. One LoR was Prof. from Cornell. One LoR was a top 10 CS School Prof. and One from Thesis Advisor with whom I have paper. All three strong letters. For god's sake, even applied to the collaborator of the Prof. from Cornell. Still got rejected. Grad Admissions this season are horrible.

Kinda early

Area: NLP. Overall machine learning and allied fields seem to have become extremely competitive where people with multiple strong papers, good grades and strong recommendation letters are getting rejected. Very unfortunate.

Can't say I expected it with great certainty, but it makes sense given my current record. Best of luck to everyone else.

Cornell CS PhD Office :"Final decisions are expected to be made this week"

feelsbadman

received interview notification last week. How did everyone feel about it?

Hello, which professor did you talk with in cornell? Is there a school visit?

Received an interview invitation on Jan 23rd. Scheduled my interview for Jan 28th. Very general interview.