Graduate School Admission Results

No publications, but research project experience. Top 10 CS program, 6 internships, LoR from a well-known professor in deep learning, a top-level engineer who was my mentor at an internship, and a non-CS PhD candidate who instructed one of my courses. TA for a graduate level ML course for 4 semesters, leadership positions in student government and a cultural club. 90th percentile GRE quant, 92nd percentile GRE verbal. Several scholarships during undergrad. Not sure how much this matters, but I am a member of an underrepresented minority group.

Human-Computer Interaction track. Non-CS undergrad (Economics) from an average institution. 3.6 GPA. Average GRE quant score; above average GRE verbal score. 5 years full-time work experience as a Software Engineer at Disney, Amazon and PayPal. Strong letters of rec from tech execs at well-known companies (1 CTO, 1 Tech SVP and 1 Engineering Manager).

Debating between here, Harvard CSE, and Columbia CS

I think Stanford does release a wave of admits first and then rejects based on previous years posts on gradcafe.

Does anyone know if Stanford sends out admits and rejects separately? I've not received any update yet. I assume that means I'm rejected

Can we please stop with the fake posts.....

1 published paper in top ML conference. Strong academics/GRE. Strong LOR all from industry contacts (~7 years work experience). I think what helped the most, however, was an unusual SOP. My background is doing software in public sector/nonprofit. Long-term goal is to improve government. Lots of extracurrics that show this (i.e. serving on city committees). My SOP about my public sector goals may have been unusual compared to most applicants.

has anyone heard from BMI? I participated in the interviews in early March but haven't heard anything since.

Funny. If you don't apply, you definitely won't get in. Self rejection is worse :')

Undergrad from a top 5 mechanical engineering school. 2 research, 2 internships, 1 publication. 3.8 GPA. Expected since I know they only accept 4.0? Congrats to those who got in!

Got an email this morning

top 10 engineering schools, 2 research publications, 2 internships, decent LORs, still not enough for Stanford. But congrats to all who got accepted!

All decisions should be out by March 26 since that is the day of virtual campus visit for MS admits.

No email notification. Directly check the website to see the admission letter. Probably will not accept this because I have received PhD offers elsewhere.

Received the email at 1 am EDT. Good luck to everyone else!

The posts below are highly dubious, considering they were posted on 3/19 and it is still 6am on 3/19 on the west coast.