Computer Science Graduate School Admission Results

Your application for graduate study for the Fall 2024 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been carefully considered by our Graduate Admissions Committee. We regret to inform you that the committee is not recommending you for admission to graduate program. Due to space limitations and a number of exceptional applicants, we are unfortunately unable to recommend many well-qualified students for the program. Therefore, we hope that this decision will not discourage you from pursuing your future academic and career goals.

Generic rejection email.

4 years exp in AI, CS grad

2 years of work experience in a AI/Gen AI team at a big tech company. No publications, 2 non provisional US patents. Recommendations: stanford PhD and IIT D professor, VP of AI at the company, another work rec. Congrats to everyone else who got in!

2 decent research publications, ICPCs, etc. Shouldn't have applied, lol.

Generic email of rejection

No GRE, ample research and internship experience, supporting author on one publication

1 SIGCSE Publication + 6 months research experience

Applied to the MSCS program

My profile is as follows:- Academics:-- B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from an old IIT- GPA: 9.02/10 (with full grades in Networks, ML, DSA, DBMS)- Minor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Experience:-- SDE internship experience at a top Silicon Valley data backup and cybersecurity startup (in their India office) for three months (got a PPO offer for full-time)- Research intern at CMU (remotely) for the past one and a half years (working on Video-based Deep learning)- 1 paper draft from the above experience (will be submitted to A* conference later this year)- Research Intern at UNSW Sydney for three months (graph theory and bioinformatics, no paper)- Ongoing Bachelors Thesis in the field of Hardware Security and Networks (will have a draft by the time of applications) Projects:-- Multiple course projects on OS, Networks, VR, Compilers, Sensors- Two good quality projects from Inter-IIT Tech meet participation (Silver medal in one of them)- A couple of projects from hackathons (one by Flipkart and one institute-level where we won first prize) Extracurriculars:-- Was the Secretary of the Coding Club of my institute- Inter-IIT Quizzing GRE:-- 331 (161 V, 170 Q) TOEFL:- 119

https://www.reddit.com/r/MSCS/comments/1b3jime/cmu_mscs_accept/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Profile: https://www.reddit.com/r/MSCS/s/4KIiHQaQ8G

First off, I want to formally thank my close freinds, advisors, and mentors for believing. I want to especially thank my mom. She worked double shifts just to keep a roof over my sisters and I ever the past few years. Second, I'd like to say FUCK YOU to all the people who said I wasn't “smart enough” or said my goals were too high for my expectations. Your skepticism and negative treatment only fueled my determination. Third, I'd like to say a special huge GO FUCK YOURSELF to one of my high school teachers and to one of my EECS Professors at Berkeley. Both of you doubted my abilities and underestimated my abilities as a student, particularly highlighting both of my physical and health challenges as a barrier to my success in the engineering field. You thought that being in a wheelchair would prevent me from achieving milestones in my life. You would have never thought a guy in a wheelchair could BOTH get a job at Google w/ a 6-fig salary AND get into Stanford Graduate Engineering school in the same month. WELL GUESS WHAT BITCHES.  I DID IT. LOOK WHOSE WINNING NOW. 🖕😤🖕 (mic drop)

UIUC

Ample research and internship experience, one publication as supporting author