3.71 GPA @ Arizona State University, 2 NASA internships, a few other research internships, but no publications yet. Strong LORs, thought I wrote a decent SOP catered to the school. This is just how it goes.

Interviewed in late January. Track is systems/networks.

2 first-author pubs at top conferences, strong LOR. Congrats to those admits.

Standard rejection email. 1/2 so far. Theory/algorithms applicant, math undergrad.

No interview and didn't think I'd be great match for the professors in the SOP, so pretty expected. 3 published papers and 2 under review. Though also a bit sad, sigh.

NLP. 2-3 pubs/1 internship. Did not have a strong faculty fit.

Standard reject e-mail. The dream lives on~

Area: NLP. Two published papers, one under review. Didn't think I had great research fit with the advisors I mentioned in my SOP, so not all that surprised.

Official mail. No interview. Systems

ML/NLP; no interview; multiple tier 1 first author conference papers and multiple papers under review

No interview so was pretty expected.

Did not have contact with POI before hand, field: architecture, quantum algorithms

Area: NLP. I have 1 top publication at Systems research. No interview. Just plain rejection.

Had an interview 2 weeks ago - seemed to go well. No acceptance or rejection yet. Anyone else in a similar boat? Area: Comp Bio/ML

My area is algorithms and ML theory. 3.95 GPA from top 10 undergraduate program, no GRE scores, 2 very strong LoRs from professors + 1 one from manager at FAANG internship, 2 publications submitted and under review. I applied to 7 schools and this is my first rejection. So far, 0 for 1.

Email from the committee. Area: AI / Theory. One informal interview.