email sent directly from the department. so excited.

Logged into howdy.tamu.edu, and status shows Denied. No official email received yet. GPA is graduate.

No email. Checked the portal, and it said: We regret we were unable to admit you. Not even an official letter attached. Very unprofessional I would say.

non-CSD

Mechanics and computation program

Nuclear physics. Been in contact with potential PI since August. He sent me this email this morning: "To give you as much information as possible, we have sent out the first offers for PhD admissions and are waiting to hear back from people. I must say that this year we have a very competitive set of applicants and so admissions are very tough. I don't know what will happen with our current offers but, if I'm being honest, I think you should probably operate on the assumption that we are unlikely to be able to offer you a place at graduate school. The process is done by committee and so I can't speak entirely for them but that's about the position that we're in right now." Very unfortunate.

Email to check portal. Sad. Good luck folks...

Had defense prime experience. No papers/pubs/patents. Canadian

4 years of TA experience. 5 first-author papers at ICLR and NeurIPS. 3 years of research experience. Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Undergrad at MIT EECS. Connections with 3 Princeton professors. 2 IMO gold medals. Regular codeforces top 100.