Got an email saying I have been accepted.

Thanks. To me, that looks like a strong profile but of course I'm not doing any evaluations. It seems true that a lot of this comes down to luck and circumstances in any given year (pandemic after all). Good luck for your remaining outcomes. Spring admissions are also known to generally be more competitive than Fall.

Also 1.5 years of research experience at robotics lab. Guess have to work more on publishing in top venues. Best of luck to everyone.

Thanks for your kind words. Bachelor in CS; TOEFL: 101; GPA: 3.56; Publications: 1 first author (robotics; reinforcement learning; IEEE, not a top international venue); 1 not first author (robotics; math modeling; national journal; not a top international venue); 2 research internships (Samsung, VK); 1 semester of TA experience (robotics); 2 summer schools in ML (with one poster); a bunch of voluntering experience (publication chair; organizer of summer school on ML in Robotics; etc)

After careful evaluation of your application to Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Committee on Admissions regrets to inform you that your application for graduate study has not been approved. It has been determined that your application may be better suited for consideration to the Master's degree program. If you would like your application to be reviewed for admission to the MS program, we ask that you please submit this form. Upon receipt of this form, you will then have the ability to complete the mandatory video interview in your status portal. Your application will be reviewed for the MS program upon completion of both the form and the video interview.

TTPB: U of Utah applicant was the email from CY by chance? I also applied for some graphics labs! (Best of luck on the interview btw!)

Curious if anyone knows if the University will make the application decision from today until the New Year?

interested professor in graphics, excited!

@poster below: I applied for ECON+CS. I had my interview yesterday, but the prof said he wanted to sort out his preferences by the end of this week. That is, this is unusual and other faculty members will contact students in january.

To the poster below who got the Harvard interview: what research areas are you applying for? Did anyone else hear within a week after the deadline?

1 Paper published, 1 paper to be submitted, undergraduate research fellowships

Interview with potential PI

I am the accepted Ph.D. student. I had an MS degree with 4 journal publications, one top conference, 2 submitted manuscripts on arxiv; an internship at Google; No gap; Undergrad GPA: 3.25; MS GPA: 3.96; a few certificates from Coursera; For the interview, I presented a couple of my publications for 10-15 minutes. Then some general questions about my area of interest and the works of advisor I am interested in working with.

TTPB: I have not received any email from UMass. Is there anyone else who has not received an email to fill their faculty preferences?

Is there anyone who got the rejection mail for the Spring 2021? I still could not get any response until now, and they will start the Spring semester within 3 weeks.

To the Columbia Ph.D. admits below can you please share your profiles?

Got an email notification today evening. Applied 1st week of October.

To the post below for Columbia university Ph.D. applicant accepted for spring 21, Can you please tell me what were the questions asked in the interview?

Am the first poster for CMU. This is for the language technologies institute (nlp).