Female CS grad from Southeast Asia (Best Student in course), research internship in Japan, 4 years working as software engineer in NLP & backend, 1 publication, an independent project featured in national news

Received an email from the department around 4:30 pm UK time. Ivy undergrad, a couple of minor publications, pretty significant experience in tech and government.

Very competitive program. Good luck to everyone else!

Energy professional with > 10 years' working experience. Received full ride undergrad scholarship in earth sciences at a U15 Canadian university. Used one academic reference for the application. Upload button had disappeared four days prior to the 1.52 am rejection email.

Interview on 17th Jan

Final year undergrad engineering EU student. Top 1% student on my course, 3 scholarships awarded during my undergrad, 2 internships in big consulting companies, several volunteering experiences, #1 BE course of this type in my country.

It did hurt to receive a rejection letter on Christmas Day... 4th year undergrad from University of Toronto, 3 years research experience, 1 publication, very good references. I think my research interests weren't the best match though. Not too upset, still hopeful for other schools!

DPhil

Research Masters; interview via Teams. Unable to log in to teams for 4 months. Requested an alternative video-conferencing app

Applied Dec 3rd, Interviewed Dec 16th, Accepted Dec 20th. Background in Computer Science. Waiting to hear on funding.