Doing my daily portal check when I saw that I could "View Admission Recommendation" on my Application Status page! It says that I will be officially contacted within 10 days.

Email from chair of graduate admissions for dept. Reasoning: faculty fit was lackluster (somewhat agree). Apparantly 8 slots, ＞100 apps

Masters from an IIT. 1 first author Pub. 1 first author pub in review and another in prep. 1 conference presentation.

Directly admitted to PhD with funding

Direct rejection, good luck to others

2 top publications, strong rec. Sad to see the results. Good luck to those who got admitted!

Straight rejection, was encouraged to apply by the POI but I think that was generic to everyone reaching out to them.

Got an email from the director saying that the Second Language Studies Program had a large and extremely qualified pool of applicants for an unusually small number of doctoral student positions. Michigan State University's application system will send another automatic rejection email in the coming weeks. Good luck to the rest!

HCI. Scheduled a zoom meeting this weekend.

Was called and offered a Zoom interview. Shortly after the interview, I got invited to the Recruiting Weekend to be held in February. No GRE; co-authored on two publications; roughly 1yr of research experience.

Applied to the biostats PhD program, accepted into the masters program