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The web technology that makes the application process a heckuva lot easier than it must have been years ago The support of my LoR writers The patience and objectivity of my friends My job, which pays enough so that my app fees were not a significant burden, and so that I should have a bit of a savings to live off of while in school -- and which is still there as a backup plan My one generously-funded offer from a top notch school The comforts of the northwestern U.S., which I still get to enjoy until fall term starts

If you search the admissions survey on this site's front page and you find acceptances and interviews for your programs, or you happen to know that the on-campus recruitment weekend has passed for them, then your chances are not good right now. Otherwise, it may just be that the program in question makes its decisions late in the season. Either way, you should not assume anything until you receive a formal decision. Good luck!

You are a strong enough candidate for the programs to refrain from rejecting you outright, but you are not strong enough (or not a good enough fit) to have been selected in their current rounds of acceptances. If enough candidates accept their admissions offer soon, they will finally reject you. But they may not, and they may ask you to attend. So you're still in the running. From reading here and the gradadmission subreddit, I'd say that's the consensus on your situation. I'm in the same boat with three of my programs. Good luck!

Did you consult the admissions survey on the gradcafe homepage yet? Can't speak for the others, but I've definitely seen results for UIUC out there, and a few for McGill too.

I am in the same situation as you with most of my programs, and it seems many other contributors here are too. And I feel very lucky to have been accepted to a very nice choice, although I am still hoping to hear good news from my #1. Good luck!

Great little moment of tension there! And I suppose it could've turned out to say "Condolences".

I received my acceptance while on a bus from my office to the dentist. It was an email from Tufts inviting me to the accepted students open house. "Amazing!" I said aloud. I don't think I shouted, but it had been quiet on the bus, so I got a few looks. I must have been glowing. And I had been so hard on myself in the preceding days, often finding myself drifting out of the moment, imagining the doleful emails I'd write to my recommenders, explaining how I was grateful for their help, but hadn't gotten the offer I wanted. The email was rather sudden. First of all, it was Thursday, and they were asking me to RSVP by Sunday for an event two weeks later. On top of that, the email assumed I had received my acceptance letter, and had been contacted by my future advisor (should I end up going to Tufts). Um, no, this was the first I was hearing of this! Might this be a mistake? Fortunately, the official acceptance came the next day, along with the financial offer. I'm flying to Boston next week!

I was accepted to an M.S. program in the geography department at Clark University in Worcester. It's 40% funded, at a very expensive school. Still, it's a nice program, and I can see myself really becoming passionate about the work. I got the notification from Clark about two weeks ago. Then, last Thursday, I got a surprise email from the computer science department at Tufts, inviting me to their accepted students open house. The official offer came the next day: full tuition remission, and an assistantship of about $25,000 paid over nine months. Amazing! As gratifying as the offer is, that sum is a pittance to live on in the Boston area. I think I can make it work, though -- and I think I'll be quite comfortable if I can do a summer-term programming contract in Boston every year. Just in case I need a loan, though, I think I'm going to submit a FAFSA. (Not an option for international students, I know!) I haven't accepted the Tufts offer yet. Technically, no program has rejected me yet, but it is getting awfully late for my first choice, Brown, and for the others I applied to. So, I think the Tufts offer will be it.

Perusing the admissions survey results on the front page, I see there have been a few acceptance to computer science for Canadian residents now.

I only find it funny how butthurt this guy is.

Sorry, Nirvik. I hope I didn't discourage you. If you are applying from India, it seems unlikely they'd ask you to travel to Boston for an open house, even if they do intend to accept you.

Nirvik, did you receive an email from Tufts yet? I am a doctoral applicant, and I got a message a few hours after you wrote this post. It invited me to an accepted students weekend in Medford. However, the person who wrote it seemed to think I should already have been contacted by my advisor and by the school, and I have not been. My status on the application portal remains unchanged -- not "accepted" or anything like that. Other than that, I haven't been contacted by any of my computer science programs, either. And I'm slightly suspicious Tufts did not really accept me.

I regret that I only have but one positive reputation point to give to this post. I went ahead and made it the entire contents of my GRE analytic writing section. Got a 7.0 score.

I'm trolling the survey page for computer science programs. University of Washington has a top program, and a slew of rejections have been posted recently. One bitter UW applicant writes Notification Mail essentially said, "We are a graduate admissions committee: bunch of pussies, who rely heavily on previous data points of excellence to predict your success in graduate school. We make the safest choices and go home politically correct" Yikes! Well, I'm one of those left hanging -- all my doctoral programs have accepted others or invited them to interviews, and none have contacted me. So maybe I'll post my own bitter reaction if the rejections finally do come through.

There's an Indiana University of Pennsylvania? Neat. Anyway, have you checked the admissions survey on the GradCafe.com front page for results from these schools?

My story: I applied to six programs. Two applications were due 12/15, two due 1/1, and two due 1/15. I hadn't heard from any of them until a few minutes ago. A few minutes ago, I found out I was accepted to my safety program. It's a master's in GIS at Clark University. My bachelor's is in computer science, and I would prefer to continue in CS, so it is not ideal. It's also only about 50% funded, and I strongly prefer not to take on any more loans. (I'm certainly grateful for the scholarship offer! But Clark is quite an expensive school, so it doesn't go as far as you might imagine.) All that said, the Clark program is a nice one, and it is a relief to have one acceptance under my belt. My other master's app was for CS at McGill. It seems they are famous for responding late, so I am not especially worried. I don't expect to hear from them for another month. The other four programs are computer science PhDs. The GradCafe survey has seen acceptances and interview invites recorded for all of them, all between one and three weeks ago. I haven't heard anything. So I am pretty discouraged. Obviously, I'm not dead yet; but, about as obviously, I'm not a first-choice candidate for any of these departments. Reading others' stories here, I wish I had applied to more programs. I didn't know six was considered not that many! And now that my top picks are fading, I wish I had more choices. I don't know if I'll go to Clark if that ends up as my one grad school option. I'm fortunate to be doing well in a career I'm decently satisfied with, which means I have other directions to go.

Are you applying to UMass for computer science? I've applied to the PhD program and haven't heard back. I'm disheartened to see that others have been accepted to the same program already. It seems unlikely any admissions news would have been delivered between Friday night and Saturday morning anyway. But, like you, I'm anxious to hear something.