Graduate School Admission Results

Interview with a professor that I did not mention in SOP

Interview by POI at Berkeley. Talked about my interests and what kind of work I like. Said the results will be out in a week. Two at max. Best of luck everybody!

Phone interview with a CS professor, who said the committee "[is] very interested in" my application. Talked about the CS Ph.D program at Berkeley in general. I have no publications, but did a lot of independent work projects and teaching. From a top CS school.

1 publication

Email from UCB professor requesting a Skype interview! I have 5 publications, plus 3 papers in review. I have done five research-oriented internships in national labs and industry research centers. Did my undergrad in CS at a top-10 school.

informal offer of admission from prof at Berkeley during phone interview; 2 international first-author papers accepted; 1 international fourth-author paper accepted; 1 first-author international paper under review; 2 second-author international papers under review; 1 year full-time research experience at Ivy League research lab; internships at NVIDIA and Canadian video game studio; great master's GPA at small Canadian research university; bad undergrad GPA at small Canadian research university; bad GRE scores;

unsolicited email from prof at UCB requesting phone interview; 2 international first-author papers accepted; 1 international fourth-author paper accepted; 1 first-author international paper under review; 2 second-author international papers under review; 1 year full-time research experience at Ivy League research lab; internships at NVIDIA + Canadian video game studio; great master's GPA at small Canadian research university; bad undergrad GPA at small Canadian research university; bad GRE scores

Got an email from a EE professor asking for an interview, he never called though. I think it might be better to apply to other departments.

KFUPM Graduate, Saudi Arabia. Working for Saudi Aramco

professors in this department select students ONLY IF they don't find good students from their respective (original) departments. Thus, seats are very limited. DON'T apply to this program. Instead, it is better to directly apply to the department you are interested in.

I think that this program admitted few applicants...... strongly recommend not to apply this program!!!!!

Generic mass rejection email.

It's about time!

S'okay. Have better offers.