Ah and to filter on cgpa admission committee took 5months they would have hired an excel professional who would have done in 10mins at max. Anyways may be I can't make it to fall 21 hope Columbia also clears this misery soon ! All the best those who got in !

Well... It is what it is. 2 AAAI, 1 ICLR and 1 Springer Nature paper. 1 in review at TPAMI and 1 in review at ICCV. Strong LoRs from Google Brain and Institute Chair Prof at IIT-Bombay. 1 year full-time research exp at IISc, 1 AI startup internship, 2 research internships at top-tier labs, 2xGSoC in AI/ML. Strong research fit with profs and several National Awards. I guess I must have worked harder. The 2021 cohort is more competitive than I expected. Congratulations to those who made it!

From a top private university in India. GPA - 9.36. Good Project on Machine Learning. Won few technical competitions. Honestly, didn't expect a rejection from USC. Am sure that I've got great SOP and recommendations. I don't know what USC did look for. So, am not sure if they send out rejections based on GPA.

Ignore WL. Once again it seems they are processing applicants in the order of GPA. TTPB with gpa 8.8, it seems I would be next in line to be rejected with gpa 8.9 :). USC is so gpa centric it's almost ridiculous.

Rejected after over 4 months of wait. 8.8/10 GPA from a reputed private university, 329 GRE (168 Q 161V and 4 AW) with 4 years R&D work ex at a Siemens and 2 publications. Unable to understand where I fell short.

not able to see my result on youSC portal

Finally, USC put me out of my misery. The long wait was testing my patience on the next level and also affecting mental health, Seeing the horrible situation in India, I don't care about the admission decisions anymore, Yes the reject made me a bit sad. Columbia also should release the decision quickly and put me out of another misery

I'm the poster who talked about getting accepted to UTD's Computer Science PhD program around February 9. I finally got my funding letter today (30 April). A professor I mentioned in my SOP reached out to me, we talked over MS Teams, and he also offered me a summer RA position since I'm from the US. I'm just letting y'all know this in case any of you are still waiting for funding at around this time this or following years. Excited to get my PhD! Best of luck to everyone else in your academic endeavors. :)

TTPB - Sorry to break it to you but it's most likely a rejection at this point. Stop wasting your time.

Guys, I request you all to shoot up an email to [email protected] for the status update. It's high time now and because of these emails, they'll at least try to pace up their process. PLEASE MAIL THEM!!

Guys, I request you all to shoot up an email to [email protected] for the status update. It's high time now and because of these emails, they'll at least try to pace up their process. PLEASE MAIL THEM!!

Ttpb: Thank you very much for your consideration and response.

I applied for the MS/PhD track but I got admitted to online Master's program. I need to get more information about the program so that I can make a decision. If there are other students as me, I would be happy to be in touch with them. Good luck to everyone.

TTPB: (Im the rejected 3.7 guy). Thanks. I've received offers from multiple Ivy Leagues and CMU so I'm not too worried haha. Just seems strange for USC to reject me...

3.7 undergrad GPA from a better California university, GRE: 169Q, 165V, 5.0AWA, 3 years work experience in ML engineering at well known tech company. No clue where I went wrong given that they've accepted far weaker profiles in the last few weeks.

I was the person that was rejected from CS - DS program on 4/27. Just got the acceptance for the CS - ES program. Feeling relieved! Got into my second choice, but really wanted to go to USC.

Now Viterbi portal shows about financial forms etc. I think those who didn't receive decision is reject. Didn't see many USC MS in CS general admits this year really sad 😢😢 Anyone still having hope?

TTPB: Would you say your major GPA/ cs GPA is higher than 3.38 overall gpa? Did you go to a top 20 undergrad?