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I think it's just someone lying again. Stanford is known for not doing a lot of interviews. Plus the guy says interviewed (out of the blue) yesterday, and first admission today. And nothing to correlate it on the forum. I don't think you should pay attention to those two entries. 
 

Georgia tech works in waves. When you get the result depends on when you applied for the program. If you applied close to the deadline, then you probably won't be notified before march, I guess. 

Sorry, but that one is TRUE, at least in engineering (trust me, I'm a grad student at Columbia, and you will see almost no american people in the engineering programs; in average, 15% are french - my case - 30% are indian, and 30% are chinese, the rest for some other European or Asian countries, as well as a few North African students + 1/2 american students in each prog. And this actually gets worse when you look at the PhD programs, that are constituted of 75% of chinese students + one or two european student and sometimes one Indian student that gets lost there). Honestly, I won't deny the only reason I got accepted as a master's student at Columbia in 2011 is my french citizenship ; with the exact same application, if I was American, I would not even have been considered for an interview. 


The ones I hate most:
"Oh you're applying for PhD? Oh, you've got good grades and you're smart, you'll be fine" (isn't is the case of EVERY SINGLE applicant to a PhD program?)
"What would you do a PhD in the US anyway? You should have stayed in France, our master's degree are so much better. Especially for people coming from your school, you should be able to get a good managerial position within 4 or 5 years. It's stupid to try to get more knowledge - and you will be paid with money from my taxes !!!??! - when you can immediately get money" (no comment on that one. That's just super arrogant, proof of immense stupidity, and THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANT TO DO ANYWAY. No wonder we're so bad at anything closely related to research)

Not all of them, only half. The rest will be sent on Monday, and if you haven't received the email today saying that your application is still being processed, I guess that  you've been rejected (even though you will be notified only next week). I'm in this case too, which I don't particularly appreciate given my master's GPA at Columbia and the fact that I've been performing already several months of UNPAID research for them.

Not all of them, only half. The rest will be sent on Monday, and if you haven't received the email today saying that your application is still being processed, I guess that  you've been rejected (even though you will be notified only next week). I'm in this case too, which I don't particularly appreciate given my master's GPA at Columbia and the fact that I've been performing already several months of UNPAID research for them.