[Visit days 2016]

Hi! I was wondering when the visit days for these PhD programs are, so that I can know approximately when I should give up the tiny slivers of hope I still have.

I found Columbia's day (3/2) on another thread, so might as well try for the other ones on my list:

• MIT
• CMU (machine learning)
• Harvard
• Penn
• UC San Diego
• UC Irvine

Feel free to add on your own schools if you want

[MIT EECS Fall 16]

There are a lot of CS results... I'm not sure why you're not seeing them? You just have to search "computer science".

I'm going to assume I got rejected, since I didn't get an email... It would be nice to get a rejection email so that I can move on, though.

[Fall 2016 Computer Science PhD Applicants]

Even though a few schools have already sent out results -- both official and unofficial -- since none of my schools have sent out official decisions, I figured it's not too late to start this thread!

I'm seeing a lot of POI calls/emails for Berkeley and Stanford acceptances on the results page, but I haven't heard anything from them, so I've nearly lost hope at this point... but maybe some professors don't feel the need to notify the students that were interested in them before the official offer? I guess we'll know for sure when the wave of official emails gets sent out! (I don't think there will be two waves, since they probably know at this point how many they need to accept in order to sufficiently fill the incoming class.)

[WINE, WAIT, AND WHINE THREAD]

(Hello! I've been lurking for a bit, but decided to blow off some steam with y'all... waiting is rather nerve wracking. I'm applying to MSc and PhD programs in computer science, by the way.)

1 hour ago, raaawr said:

and regarding the statements of intent and other things, I haven't re-read or looked at my application materials since I submitted them. I just know I'll find errors in it so I'd rather not melt my brain thinking of all my mistakes until the results come out. Sometimes I also like to imagine that my application is a magical unicorn where the admissions people won't even have to interview me cause my application is just too brilliant so they just automatically accept me. LOL! 

On another note, I am feeling so sluggish and too lazy to do my work while waiting for interview/results. Anybody feel like that these days?

I try not to look too much at my application essay (colleges, cover letters for internships, and the like) after I submit it... it's the effect of being embarrassed about what you wrote a long time ago!

I've transitioned into couch potato mode ever since I submitted all my apps and finished finals in December. I busied myself so much last semester that I burned out pretty badly, so I figure that I should let myself relax a bit for now, before I turn it on for whatever I do in the fall 

At this point, I've been invited to a couple of Skype interviews by individual professors (this seems to be the usual mode of interview for computer science programs), and I was really excited at first, since I was prepared (almost expecting) to get unceremoniously rejected by all my schools! But I'm really insecure (imposter syndrome is my life), so interviews make my anxiety skyrocket, inducing a terrible dread, and at the same time, I don't want to complain too much, out of respect for those who weren't selected... So I definitely have mixed feelings about interviewing -- I quickly go from "yay!" to "oh no!" to "it could have been worse" (after the interview). Does anyone else feel this way? The anxiety must be worse for those of you who are interviewing on-site!

On the bright side, it looks like my programs mostly don't interview after January, and send decisions throughout February, so at least the agony should be short-lived for the most part. (Some of them have historically sent a bunch of rejection notices in mid-late April -- even after the 15th -- which is kind of a jerk move...  UC Irvine, I'm looking at you.)