Unofficial acceptance, the Prof who interviewed me around 3 weeks back mailed back Will prolly accept it, really enjoyed talking with them !

Expected considering 8.38 gpa and 162 quants :( 2 years volunteer exp at coding nonprofit, ~10 months internship exp and 10-month ft exp. Multiple hackathon wins including SIH

Indian student, Old IIT, GPA 9.7+ Exp: 2 research internships (Univs) + 1 industry internship, and some research done under UG Thesis Total 5 papers (but none of them is in a top A* venue and I'm the first author for only one of them). Graduated last year and am currently in an AI residency role at a FAANG company.

Top 5 IIT B.Tech. in CS. 1 publication and 1 under review. Had a top HFT internship and an university internship.

IR2 from mid tier IIT. 2 research internships (universities), one of them international. 1 conference paper (A) and 2 journals under submission. Best bachelors Thesis, ACM ICPC Regionals, SIH win. 1.5y work exp ~FAANG. They send out a 1000+ admits, and not together so don't worry. Concerned about the funding and research because of the huge class size, probably would prefer UW Madison for better systems research match (OS) and funding. But UCSD weather is awesome!

IR2 from mid tier IIT. 2 research internships (universities), one of them international. 1 conference paper (A) and 2 journals under submission. Best bachelors Thesis, ACM ICPC Regionals, SIH win. 1.5y work exp ~FAANG. Good research match for Systems field. Didn't get guaranteed funding unfortunately, but seems easy enough because of the ~40 non-professional class size. Traditional MS is surprising hard to get into, but worth it for the funding.

IR2 from mid tier IIT. 2 research internships (universities), one of them international. 1 conference paper (A) and 2 journals under submission. Best bachelors Thesis, ACM ICPC Regionals, SIH win. 1.5y work exp ~FAANG. CMU MSCS is extremely competitive, and they don't necessarily look for research so don't make yourself sound like a PhD candidate. Apply to MSML or MCDS which are easier to get in, or MSE if you have a weaker profile but definitely want to get in.

IR2 from mid tier IIT. 2 research internships (universities), one of them international. 1 conference paper (A) and 2 journals under submission. Best bachelors Thesis, ACM ICPC Regionals, SIH win. 1.5y work exp ~FAANG. Good research match for Systems and Networking. Definitely don't apply to terminal masters (MS only) - the meagre ~5 students they take in for this program are from UCB/Stanford/MIT undergrads, 0 from India. MS/PhD chances are also slim but there is at least a chance since they take ~20 in total.

IR2 from a mid tier IIT. 2 research internships in universities with one of them being international. 1.5 years of work experience ~FAANG. 1 conference paper (A) and 2 journals under submission, all first author. Systems and Networking background. Congrats to all other admits, looks like they only take a couple of Old IITans and an exceptional candidate from normal college in India.

[IGNORE THE WAITLIST] Guys, does anybody have info on CMU-MCDS? I'm thinking I should expect a reject now but haven't seen that many acceptances or any rejects on here? I was under the impression that CMU releases its accepts and rejects together so I'm very confused.

Cgpa : 8.3/10

Applied for my peace of mind :) Congrats to the admitted folks!

VR/HCI domain. 3 internships at 2 companies. 1 first-author paper (best student paper) at top conference. 1 published app with 2m+ downloads.

Undergrad from Top 20 US college. Stats major. 2yrs stats related research experience. 2 pubs in non CS related conferences. 3yrs industry experience as data scientist. 1 LoR from undergrad professor, 2 from industry.

CS undergrad, top-tier IIT, 9.66 CPI, 2 yrs work experience, 2-3 research projects, some extra-curriculars, no research papers. Was my ambitious school and kind of expected

Expected, ain't even sad