Graduate School Admission Results

Waitlisted. Any idea how likely I am to get off it?

TOP 50 ECE undergrad, CMU MCDS accepted, one year internship at a local startup, no pub

MCDS. Top 25 US undergrad, no publications. 2+ years WE in DS

MCDS

2 papers in upcoming CV conference, 1 year experience as software engineer, strong LOR's. no financial package (TA/RA/Fellowship) offered up front, potential TA positions after first semester. no prior contact with any faculty members. gpa for last 2.5 years was 3.97

Rejected from MCDS, unsure if still being looked at by the other departments I applied to (ML and CS)

MCDS, guess I don't belongs to the limited set of superlative candidates :( Does anyone know exactly how many students they are admitting though?

MCDS Rejection

But all the admits that are posted here are either for MIIS or MSAII. Haven't come across any MLT ones

TTPB asking regarding the MLT results, as far as I know all MLT results are out.

When will the results be out?

Any idea when will the results of MS LTI will be out? Not the MIIS and MSAII programs but the MLT program.

1 Workshop paper, 1-year of research experience in NLP, Strong LORs

Where do you think I fall in the percentage? Background: Big State School EE Undergrad 3.8 GPA Latin Honors, wanting CS PhD, Skipped GRE, 1 REU + Undergrad research projects, Compelling essay (first gen college student) with passion and diversity focus, undergrad TA experience, EE internship at no name company, decent letters, what percentage would you give me and what schools should I realistically get my hopes up for? I am American with zero connections (yes its possible if your on the poor side).

Folks - let's be honest to ourselves. The acceptance rate of tier-1 MS programs like MSCS and MSML are around 6% - 8%, and will likely be lower this year due to the increase of applicants. I'd say at least 30% of the applicants think they can get in, but we need to ask ourselves - are we really the top 6%?

TTPB: I am the one who started this discussion (about not blaming the defferals). To be perfectly clear I have no connections in CMU, I know nobody in the department I applied to, I have not had contact with anyone related to my specific field. CMU has a ton of CS graduate programs and I spoke to people I am familiar with in totally unrelated programs. This isn't because your lack of connections nor defferals. Graduate admissions are a crapshoot, I got accepted to CMU.. but rejected to a totally inferior school. Stop acting like the world owes you something, and given the admissions that you mentioned you should be in cloud nine. Very few get into every school they apply to, that does not mean that the schools that reject you are rigged against you.

Does anyone know what's going on with MSML and MCDS? Any estimate when they will be out?