Got call from prof (not mentioned as POI, very famous prof!) saying admitted to stanford, email to be received tomorrow! Excited! (accepted in UC Berkeley as well)

Bachelors degree in Molecular Biology. Two years work experience and extensive research in biology. No computer science classes, but some programming work experience.

Excited!

Expected to get in. Will likely decline.

Rejected again. Top of graduating class. Attended Stanford Summer International Honors Program. Strong LORs, one from Stanford professor. No research experience.

Oh well, guess I'm off to CMU :)

It was one of my dream schools, so I am pretty sad, but my GPA and GRE wasn't really excellent, so it was predicted. Did a 7month internship at a big silicon valley company for researching.

Very disappointed

It was way too ambitious an application anyways.

I knew it was a long shot but I had to try, right?

Many NDO classes (4.0 GPA), research experience, 1 publication and significant industry experience. I wonder what does it take to get in .. oh well.

Weakening from a dream.

Beats me on why I applied! Oh, well. TOEFL 117 + 2 research internships + 1 paper + multiple mini-projects.

I don't know why I even applied.

Tuition + TAship. No research experience but did internships every summer and have been a TA for the past 5 terms.