Was a long wait. Email from the department. Area: systems

Tier-3 private uni from India, garbage GPA (7.8/10). Papers in (ACL, NAACL, COLING, INTERSPEECH). Prof told me that he had to explain my GPA in the committee hearings. Recieved official email saying I've been recommended for admission to the graduate college by the CS Department.

TTPB: Wow, congrats! I didn't get any email today from UIUC Computer Science Masters :( Does this mean high likely it's a rejection..? Is there anyone else who got the acceptance today?

I got an email with an unofficial acceptance today for the MS CS program. It gives me a link to accept or reject, but yet it says it has not been approved yet? Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you are being recommended for admission to the Department of Computer Science - Master of Science (MS) program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign beginning with the Fall 2021 term. With successful completion of the MS program, you can apply to continue on for the PhD program. We believe that our graduate program can provide an excellent environment for your graduate studies. At this time, we are unable to guarantee any funding assistance. There may be a possibility to secure a teaching or research assistantship pending availability for this upcoming academic year. There are other units on campus that may be offering assistantships if you are looking for one. Below is the link that may be of assistance in locating an assistantship or hourly employment prior to arriving to campus. Application for financial assistance always exceeds our departmental resources making it impossible to offer aid to all qualified applicants. Assistantship Clearinghouse (www.grad.illinois.edu/clearinghouse) If this recommendation for admission is approved by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, you will receive an offer of admission from the Graduate College. Please inform us of your decision regarding this offer of admission at the following link by Thursday, April 15, 2021:

Your supervisor will inform you whether his funding is available but in UK 95% students do not get enough funding. You need to prepare self funding if you wanna have PhD in Oxford. Home students get funding cos they have a low tuition fees. In 2021 EU students share the international fees, thus a lots of EU students wont join this terrible university. Why EU get nearly zero tuition fees for free education and UK just wanna make money from you guys. Education is a business in UK.

IITian, 7.7/10 CGPA, 1 PG Scholarship, 2 major extracurriculars awards, Dual Degree. 7.0 IELTS. Strong Maths and CS Background. 2.5years as Software Development Engineer from Top Indian Company. I just don't understand why I was rejected. Was my safe school. Very Sad.. :-(

To the posters below, how do you know there is no funding? Does the offer explicitly state this?

Interview a week ago, if there's no funding and plan to go UCL with funding.

Undergraduate from Tsinghua University, ranking top 5 in my class. GPA 3.92, GRE 335 + 4.0, T 117, 5 papers (3 top Journal), 4 patents (2 from China and 2 from US), 3 interns from Tencent, Google, IBM, an exchange from MIT for a year. I worried US visa thus apply this position. But last month I get offer from Chicago, Michigan and Boston University. Thus, I will decline Oxford, good luck everyone.

No interview and get offer from Cyber team. No funding yet, declined the offer. Each year we need to pay nearly 50k each year (33k for tuition and 15k for living fees). I plan to go to ETH with a considerable funding support (totally covering full tuition fees 30k and provide 40k stipend). Bye Oxford, I will never go self funding.

Same with no funding and two days to accept. I may not accept too. My friends told me that CS PhD in US usually get 350k for each year while in UK is nearly 70k. It has a large gap of salary. Thus, this application is just a guaranteed offer but not the first choice. I was waiting for USC and Duke. If not offers from US, may have a year gap.

Wait a long time to get offer from Cyber Physics Team. No funding information !!! 2 days to accept !!!! I will not accept this offer (I prefer like to call it AD), its really terrible offer, I would like to go to Berkeley or UCSD, US provides full funding and living fees. If a team without any funding, how can you do a good research. If anyone get offer without funding, just go to US. UK is really poor and not a good place to have a PhD.

I second the request below. Please share the dischord link for CS PhD admits again as the previous link seems to have expired. Thank you!

Offer without interview

TTPB: Hey sorry if i offended you :P, but anyway congratulations!!!! our profile is extremely similar (even i have an A* publication, believe it if you want). Also do you mind sharing from which college you are.

Waitlisted without interview

First of all, you can't assume it's an accepted "guy". Secondly, here's my profile - I have 2 research internships (apnning 1.5+ years), also an industrial internship in an MNC. International student. Have multiple published papers, at good international venues falling in the top 15 CS conferences in scholar matrix. GPA around 9/10. GRE score 325+. toefl 110+.

TTPB: accepted guy, can you share your profile? Umass was supposed to be a safe uni for me but i seriously dont get wtf is going on

Randomly checked portal to see acceptance. Any group for MS? Other admits, did you guys receive an email afterwards?

Checked my portal randomly, status was Update Pending. Congratulatory message on the Welcome Tab made my day. I accepted the offer and the status changed to Confirmed. Super excited!!