Your application for graduate study for the Fall 2024 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been carefully considered by our Graduate Admissions Committee. We regret to inform you that the committee is not recommending you for admission to graduate program. Due to space limitations and a number of exceptional applicants, we are unfortunately unable to recommend many well-qualified students for the program. Therefore, we hope that this decision will not discourage you from pursuing your future academic and career goals.

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No GRE, ample research and internship experience, supporting author on one publication

1 SIGCSE Publication + 6 months research experience

Applied to the MSCS program

My profile is as follows:- Academics:-- B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from an old IIT- GPA: 9.02/10 (with full grades in Networks, ML, DSA, DBMS)- Minor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Experience:-- SDE internship experience at a top Silicon Valley data backup and cybersecurity startup (in their India office) for three months (got a PPO offer for full-time)- Research intern at CMU (remotely) for the past one and a half years (working on Video-based Deep learning)- 1 paper draft from the above experience (will be submitted to A* conference later this year)- Research Intern at UNSW Sydney for three months (graph theory and bioinformatics, no paper)- Ongoing Bachelors Thesis in the field of Hardware Security and Networks (will have a draft by the time of applications) Projects:-- Multiple course projects on OS, Networks, VR, Compilers, Sensors- Two good quality projects from Inter-IIT Tech meet participation (Silver medal in one of them)- A couple of projects from hackathons (one by Flipkart and one institute-level where we won first prize) Extracurriculars:-- Was the Secretary of the Coding Club of my institute- Inter-IIT Quizzing GRE:-- 331 (161 V, 170 Q) TOEFL:- 119

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UIUC

Ample research and internship experience, one publication as supporting author

2 internships, no research experience, weak university recommendations

2 internships, no research experience, weak university recommendations

Got accepted for MSAI in the Portland, Maine campus. Received $25K funding after a few days in a separate email.

No GRE. US top 30 undergrad. 3.97/4.0 GPA. 2 significant research experiences. No publications. 2 Strong LORs 1 mid LOR. very strong SoP. 1yr work experience at MNC during school year.