Top 1% at my TU9 university, I was 99% sure that I was going to get in. I previously had published a paper on computer vision, had strong LORs from my research and also an SWE internship at a global firm.

1.5/1.0 GPA from top university in Germany. No GRE submitted.

1st ranked student at home university. Very dissapointed.

UIUC

MSCS, no interview, expected reject

UK Russell Group uni, high 70s average, no publications

Got a generic rejection mail, was expecting after the admits they sent on 8th march.

Applied to the phd program but never heard back, application was transferred to Masters last week.

International student with good research experience but no pubs. sad :s

Applied for MSCS. International student with undergrad degree from the US. 2 publications (one outside of CS, one for a data science workshop), 2 years of undergrad AI research, 2.5 years of work experience as a software/machine learning engineer. Received results in the email itself.

Applied for MSCS. Domestic student, no research experience.

no research paper, 6 months of experience in software development at a MNC. undergraduate from a tier -3 Indian college . result was expected

Old IIT (EE), 5 research-based internships, multiple projects, 1 A* conference workshop published paper, 2 in review at A* conference/journals, 1 good LoR, 1 strong LoR

Had an LoR from a respected Professor at ETH Zurich so was likely to get in

30% of total tuition for financial aid