$20k/12 month Fellowship

Average GPA & GMAT. Strong LORs & SOP. Happy to get in but find myself in a difficult situation cause there's no funding ...

The total first year stipend will be $25,000. In addition to the stipend, we offer a tuition and service fee waiver. The value of this waiver is currently $29,896. (assuming 12-month, non-resident tuition), bringing the total value of the first year award to approximately $57,896. A health insurance fee and other miscellaneous fees, currently totaling about $1,786 per semester must be paid by the student.

Undergrad topper, 2 papers (second author), strong LoRs, 2+ years R & D experience in area of interest.

2.5 years research exp, 1 publication.

Your application for graduate study in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been carefully considered by our Graduate Admissions Committee. I regret to inform you that the committee is not recommending you for admission. Due to space limitations and a very large number of exceptional applicants, we are unfortunately unable to recommend many well-qualified students for the program. Therefore, I hope that this decision will not discourage you from pursuing your career goals in general. Please note that the department policy is not to communicate the individual reasons for its decision.

1 yr TA, 1 yr intern, couple projects, but still :( oh my dream school

2 pubs honestly a tough admit season for this school

No publication

Generic rejection email. Better worded than the rest :)

Standard rejection email. No research. 2 summers of internships at large software companies

This place is great for cond mat expt. Oh well, Columbia it is for me then..

I contact my former professor (who wrote my recommendation) and got the committee's reply: "we do not currently have funding available to offer you. We hope that something will become available before the April 15th deadline." Hope good news come! Go go