:(

Generic e-mail. I applied for Ph.D. + Ms. I have a paper related to another field. Good recommendations.

5 research papers in a university, and 6 years experiences of software engineering in a company. Result is no surprise, but it is very surprised and interested to me that there are many rejected reports compared to that of past several years.

Thanks a lot UT for the prompt decision. Mail said: " Thank you for your application to the Computer Science graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin. We appreciate your interest in our PhD program. Today we are writing to inform you that our PhD admissions decisions have been made and the applicants we are recommending for PhD admission have been notified. Admission to our program is very competitive, and we received many good applications; unfortunately, we have to limit the number of students we admit. At this time, we do not anticipate recommending anyone else for admission to the CS PhD graduate program for Fall 2018. If for any reason that changes we will contact you. If you applied for "PhD or Masters" then you will hear from us again around the end of March / beginning of April regarding your Masters application. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors and thank you for considering our PhD program."

I'm an undergraduate student with research in Computer Science. I have a research experience of 2 years and I also have a paper accepted at an A+ conference.

Undergrad from little known school. Some undergrad research experience, no publications.

ML/NLP. No papers, co-author of a book, 4 years of software engineering experience, including some in deep learning. No name foreign university.

One of my top choices. Quite sad.

Sad.

Generic rejection email. First email of the season, and it is a rejection. Bummer.

1 Pub, 1 arXiv.

Got rejected today. Unexpected because I had emailed with a professor who seemed encouraging and said he hoped I'd be in his lab.

No interview, 1 conference, 1 workshop.