1st Rej., as expected

First reject. Not a surprise :/

1 A* pub. Interdisciplinary focus. Good LORs and SOP.

Phone call from POI shortly followed by official email with funding details. Area is theory.

*No* interview, no phone call or email from POI, just official email from committee. Area: NLP. 1 first-author journal article in unrelated area under review, 2 conference posters. Goldwater scholarship. Research at Stanford with POI last summer (might explain lack of interview).

Field machine learning and computational biology

To posters below: what's your field of study? I also wonder that if you're notified via POI, is he/she your prospective advisor? Does Stanford assign advisors for first-year students?

POI emailed me!

phone call

so excited!

POI called. Had an interview with me earlier on. Area: Systems/Networks

to the poster below, last year, one of my colleagues receive the offer from Stanford without any interview. Maybe policy has been changed this year.

To the poster below: every single person on the short list (CS) was interviewed. Likely no interview means no chance of admit :/

Is it possible to get into the PhD program without an interview?

To the posters below: I had an interview 2 weeks back and they said they would notify around 7th Feb

To poster below, I had an interview last week and heard the same thing, but no notification yet. Maybe we must wait more util decisions get made