TTPB, My first preference was AI/ML

Undergraduate from a Tier-II college in India, CGPA: 9.81/10, 3 Intl papers, Strong LORs

MEng in CS

No Interview, Comp Bio

Any Indians or international student with an admit yet?

1 Workshop paper, 1-year of research experience in NLP, Strong LORs

No GRE, 1-second author in IEEE conference, 1 first author under review SCI Journal, 8.1 GPA in BE CS, 4-month research intern in Europe

TTPB, where do they change the application status in the portal? I don't see anything about application status when I login in GradApp.

Machine learning theory

Unofficial email from POI who I had interview with (I applied for MS/PhD but got accepted to MS Fall 2021). Math & CS undergrad from a small LAC in the US, 3 on-campus research experience, no internship, no publication. 1 conference. Also got an offer from the POI to join their research group. Area: NLP (but no experience in NLP)

ml and security track. Undergraduate student at UCI with 3.61 gpa and triple majors. Three first author publications and 1 undergraduate research thesis. Good LORS. Formal acceptance today with the fiancial package information. First acceptance today, and I have accepted the offer. Good luck everyone.

TTPB: to the UIUC CS PhD admit, do you mind sharing your research area?

Interviewed on the 22nd. Questions were mainly on what I hope to get out of the program and coop goals.

TTPB: I can also navigate to the page with the letter by clicking Main Menu -> Admissions -> Student Center - New Grad. There is the "NAME Graduate Student Center" page with five sections: Welcome ("Congratulations on your admission to the University of Massachusetts Amherst!"), Confirmation Status (and here's the link to the letter), Graduate Student Employment, Financial Aid, and Contact Information. And on the right side of the page, there is a small box "Search for Classes" and under it another section "Grad Student Resources" with the link to "Check Status of Application Materials." I am pretty sure I just had the "Grad Student Resources" section (with the link to check application status) on this page last time I logged on to spire.

Where do you think I fall in the percentage? Background: Big State School EE Undergrad 3.8 GPA Latin Honors, wanting CS PhD, Skipped GRE, 1 REU + Undergrad research projects, Compelling essay (first gen college student) with passion and diversity focus, undergrad TA experience, EE internship at no name company, decent letters, what percentage would you give me and what schools should I realistically get my hopes up for? I am American with zero connections (yes its possible if your on the poor side).

Folks - let's be honest to ourselves. The acceptance rate of tier-1 MS programs like MSCS and MSML are around 6% - 8%, and will likely be lower this year due to the increase of applicants. I'd say at least 30% of the applicants think they can get in, but we need to ask ourselves - are we really the top 6%?