Graduate School Admission Results

No GRE, Mechanical Engineering and Physics double major undergrad from Turkey. TOEFL: 105. Was emailed to check the portal at 16.30 CET. No interviews.

Status on eApply downgraded to CS MSc from CS PhD

I didn't take many courses in computational techniques included in the program's requirements. The result is not that surprising.

Not too surprised, was only a back-up plan anyway. I come from a Maths background, so probably was missing some systems engineering experience.

not too surprised, since they want you to have systems software and multi-threaded programming experience, which I didn't take courses for

Applied to the Evolutionary Biology and Ecology PhD Program of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School program. Was informed that there were very few positions available.

Undergraduate in CS from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Best grades and first to graduate among those enrolled in my year. I held a junior researcher position in the university for 4 months in a field unrelated to the major I chose. Good recommendations, can't say about the motivation letter. No publications at the time, no internships, no GRE.

Student from a good spanish university (UPM). Average of 8.54/10, 60 ECTS with honours and 8 months of experience in a research lab at the moment of the application. 7.5/9 IELTS. No GRE. Good LoRs and strong SoP.

Multiple industry jobs (3 to be more precise, one full-time internship and two part-time), three research assistant positions, one teaching assistant position, and one publication in a mediocre conference. Letters from relatively good professors but outside computer science. Bachelor's degree from one of the better German universities. No GRE. IELTS 8/9. I guess my GPA was just not enough.

Email for ESOP received on March 24 2022, was accepted to the program in early March and interviewed in mid February. Congrats to other ESOP-ers :) and good luck to those still waiting!

Accepted to the MSc Computer Science programme, Undergrad from India, non-IIT/NIT, 3 A* publications, LOR from a famous prof in the field, 1.5 years of experience, 1 year of Research Assistant at a foreign lab, 0.5 years at a leading car company

MSc from top uni in Europe with a good GPA, first-author publication at a top-tier venue, research internship experience, and SWE internship at a renowned tech company. I reached out to the PI during the fall and had an interview back then. After a while, I was asked to have my recommenders send a letter of recommendation. Area: ML/Security.