Responding to the other comment, yes I had an interview with non-POI in January. 20 minutes long. Mostly explaining my research at a high-level. Area: Robotics

Got an interview in Jan but didn't get official acceptance today. Should've been rejected.

Is there anyone who has received unofficial notification but not official notification?

Congratulations! We are pleased to offer you admission to the Ph.D. program in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Entering our Ph.D. program provides you with the opportunity to join a top Computer Science department. You have been selected from a large pool of applicants because of your outstanding promise and our belief that you will succeed in our research program.

Area: Theory

Unofficial email from a professor. Formal email should arrive by tomorrow.

Received a phone call from a professor saying that I got admitted. track: system and networking.

Interview with Stanford NLP. Anyone else interview for NLP?

To the post below. First, thanks for your information! You mean the result will be announced within the 0.5 weeks or the 1 or 2 weeks?

To Stanford CS applicants, the CS interviewer did mention that those who are being interviewed for PhD admission are in the top 20% of the applicants this year. They usually finally take in 1/3rd of those interviewed. However, if more applicants apply to a particular research group, then the probability of getting in decreases. Those who have been interviewed will be notified within 1/2 weeks.

I did not fill any POI in my SOP. Received an email from a professor from the committee to schedule an interview on 1/30.

HCI Group.

To the Stanford posters below: I know some strong applicants (e.g., have several first-authored top tier conference/journal publications) were accepted without any interviews in the past years. I personally had a phone interview with a faculty, who is not poi but in admission community, and it was pretty general admission interview like the posters in the past week. I think except for some exceptional cases, Stanford faculties like Prof. Li do not have interviews by themselves to admit their students.