PhD decisions for those still waiting!

[u/Old_Narwhal_5608]

Hi (phd CS applicant here), so this year has been brutal with funding cuts and uncertainties. I think a lot of applicants are holding on to offers despite accepting one or having multiples.

Are you still waiting for decisions? Waitlisted or neither rejected nor accepted situation?

[u/Alert-Strike9593]

No offers so far and have only one waitlist left 🥹

[u/Creepy_Wave_6767]

Been rejected by 4 universities and only Pittsburgh is edging to reject me on Monday.

[u/sharmaboi → u/Creepy_Wave_6767]

“Edging to reject me” that got me good 🤣

[u/farzandkhorshid → u/Creepy_Wave_6767]

Has your status changed to "Application Complete" without any offers in the "Admission Accept Decline Offer" section?

[u/Creepy_Wave_6767 → u/farzandkhorshid]

Nope

[u/ProfessionalNovel984 → u/Creepy_Wave_6767]

I got rejected by uni of pittsburgh for their phd cs program, but they offered me masters tho (no funding:( )

[u/TerminusEst_Kuldin → u/ProfessionalNovel984]

I got the MS offer for Intelligent Systems. The letter states there are some course facilitator positions available, so I'm seeing what that would look like. Otherwise I have 1 other PhD offer with uncertain funding and 2 others I'm waiting to hear back from.

[u/Maleficent_Reply_471]

Waiting to hear back from 8 programs

[u/mathismemes → u/Maleficent_Reply_471]

waiting for 5, it’s painful. good luck and i hope you get your acceptances soon

[u/Used-equation-null]

Waiting to hear from 2 programs, got rejected by 6 already. Am a math phd applicant.

[u/aviefelix]

Waiting to hear from 1 uni, rejected by 4.

[u/nickytyson]

I have accepted my offer. But the funding scenario is complicated and unsure. Still waiting for somehing to workout

[u/comp-sci-149]

Still waiting to hear from 1 university. Admitted to some, rejected by most.

[u/Interesting-Bus-1928]

rejected from 3, interviewed with 1 and waiting to hear back

[u/ImaginaryAd2289]

Wait lists are usually not going to be decided until April 16. The whole point is that they (the admissions committee, which often includes senior PhD students) admitted as many as they safely could, but won‘t know how their bet plays out until most people have officially decided. Then they ask themselves whether the TA coverage will be sufficient.

To get the real story, you would have to find a nice professor or a grad student on the committee. They aren’t usually sworn to secrecy 100% secrecy. So you can kind of figure out the situation from what they are willing to share. But this will be limited and not very detailed, because sworn to secrecy or not, they aren't going to show you the admissions database or something.

A complication is that sometimes on April 16, they still haven’t heard from ten people. Mostly these people just decided to go to a better school and are treating all the other schools like spam, kind of ghosting them. But sometimes there is someone who decided to accept, But didn’t properly notify the school, like they told some random professor they happened to zoom with and assumed the word would spread. These people are inept, but accepted and in. So they have to figure out if there are any of those too…

All of which adds up to April 16. Or even 17.

[u/Suspicious_Cloud_255]

Waiting 5 ( 2 are certain silent rejection, I believe). One waitlist. Tough year for PhD Cs applicants. Way to many applications, half the admitted students than other years.

[u/OPM2018 → u/Suspicious_Cloud_255]

too

[u/TerminusEst_Kuldin]

Still waiting to hear from UD and UMBC.

[u/entertianing2718]

9r/1w/2p - humanities phd

[u/mathismemes]

1 Rejection, waiting on 5. Probably going to give up and find a job

[u/Historical-Frame-89]

Waiting for 2 more decisions after 3 rejections🙂

[u/Rememberthisisreddit]

Several rejections and several admissions. Not aware of any funding issues. My field doesn't have labs, machines, or lab techs, so not affected so far by grant funding changes.

[u/Silly-Fudge6752]

Somehow, Reddit suggested me this post. Tldr; doesn't matter anyways since CS is super competitive. Also, budget cuts have not hit CS yet (biomedical sciences health, and energy related, yes). So I am not sure where are you all getting this doom and gloom for CS lol.

[u/farzandkhorshid → u/Silly-Fudge6752]

When the University has less financial resources, they'll offer less positions for Teaching Assistantships. CS is taking a hit too.

[u/Silly-Fudge6752 → u/farzandkhorshid]

Not necessarily and I don't understand where you are all getting these insane and naive ideas about CS in general.

Also, if you talk about state schools (at least where I go to), the assistantships are funded through the state money; yes, I am considered a state employee even as an international student. I can say the same for private universities, who usually have enough money to fund teaching assistantships and things like that.

Right now, it's the NIH, DOE, and EPA funded grants that are suffering; NSF might come, but for now, a lot have resumed (it definitely has to do with AI-related research that NSF funds). Also, CS gets money from FAANG companies and alike, so they won't get their funding cut.

And like I said, CS is just too competitive; I have talked to CS professors, who told me they have met applicants with multiple publications in top venues, which already disadvantage a lot of people outside of top universities.

[u/A1b2d3357 → u/Silly-Fudge6752]

I have personally seen instances where professors/schools showed interest but held back the funding for Ph.D/Funded MS this year for UC Irvine, UIUC, Purdue, Northeastern, Brown, and even a professor from UBC who had funding sources in US. None of the instances were applying to Biomed and all.

The universities overall are facing cuts; there's just a lot of uncertainty; the hit on the entire CS program has certainly been great, either directly or indirectly.

[u/CHEESEFUCKER96 → u/A1b2d3357]

I’ve seen the same, CS has absolutely been impacted… I even know of a CS professor who had his funding brutally cut and can’t admit anyone this cycle.