[No CS background. Will this 1 year program be enough to get a job?]

My advice is to stay away from professional programs. It is called professional for reason, i.e. waste of time.

 

If you really want to study CS, the best thing to do is to take fundamental courses in your school and then apply a full time MS program. Also you can find out whether you really like it or not during the process.

[Fall 2014 Applicants]

When I finish my application to UTCS they sent me an email (maybe you received the same email, too) that "Applicants offered admission to the Computer Science doctoral program will be invited to attend GradFest 2014". 21 January, they sent me an email which says:

 

"Congratulations!  We're recommending your admission to the UT-Austin Computer Science graduate program to pursue your PhD.  We invite you to make travel arrangements to visit us February 20 - 23.  We will be contacting you again by the end of the week about how to RSVP for GradFest 2014.

You will also receive additional information about the financial award the department will be making to you no later then the week of February 3rd.

We hope you will be able to attend and look forward to meeting you"

 

They didnt contact me about how to RSVP for GRadFest, so I'm still waiting. This email is from secretary ( I think) so I am not so sure about their decision. That means that they have accepted me for sure? I don't know but I think that if there is someone who attended the previous gradFest, he could explain us the exact process.

 

In my opinion, this was the first round of admissions. Surely, some students who attend gradFest, finally go to some other universities. So I believe that they will send additional acceptances.

 

Hi, spc92, When did you get that email?

I got the same email from UTCS on Jan 21. But my status page is still showing "forwarded to department and in review" as of today. It`s almost a week now.

What does your status page say?