Graduate School Admission Results

I am sorry to inform you that we cannot offer you admission to the Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, PhD Program at the University of Pennsylvania for the Fall 2018 term. The competition was highly intense this year, and there were many more highly qualified candidates than we had room to admit. Our decision reflects only the extraordinary range of talents represented in our applicant pool, and it is not a judgment about your own abilities or potential. We appreciate your interest in Penn Engineering and wish you success in all your future endeavors.

No funding.

In 2005, U of Penn had 515 applicants to the CS PhD program and only took 21. Their acceptance rate is way lower than a lot of better schools. U Penn is simply a waste of the application fee. It's better to use that money on beer instead... or other schools. Just my opinion.

No aid promised.

No Financial Aid.

I had to email them for a status update as I hadn't heard anything from them despite the early application deadline (Dec. 15).

Full grad fellowship :)

f*** ivy, smoke weed

Called Michael Felker and he e-mailed me the decision.

Admitted with financial aid!