12 Feb 2014

University Of Washington - Seattle

Computer Science, PhD (F14)

Rejected via E-mail on 01 Feb 2014

Note

Rejected via email. I asked for feedback, and they replied that (verbatim quote) "Your application did impress evaluators, but in the end it was the mismatch of research interests that ruled. Until we can hire more HCI faculty (we lost one to Cornell this summer), we will be very cautious in admission. We also lowered the target number of new graduate students this year, while applications were up by about 150 from last year. This was partly due to faculty deaths, retirement, and departures, as well as two very large classes (both broke records) in 2012 and 2013. Advising capacity is down while PhD student population is up. We hope to remedy this in the next few years. Unfortunately, faculty hiring is a little more difficult and as unpredictable as admitting and recruiting graduate students."

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