Hougu

The problem is that it said early march up until today, so it's basically guaranteed that they need a bit more time. Whether this is a full week or just a few days, we don't know.

Well, from what I have seen maintenance during the week does indicate that the results might come, they also show up on the GRFP portal a couple of hours before the maintenance, so that might be our signal. They haven't released any results on the weekend yet, so I really doubt anything is coming today.

Well, about that, they announced maintenance for Friday on the 16th: 03/16/22 - FastLane will be unavailable from 8:00 PM ET Friday, March 18th, until 8:00 AM ET Saturday, March 19th. We apologize for any inconvenience. Edit: I got this from last year's thread, this might ruin some people's night but it might be released tonight or tomorrow morning. Edit 2: False alarm, this seems to happen every week.

I applied to 7 universities and haven't heard from a single one, I swear they lost my application or something. A couple even had a huge wave of rejections so I might be waitlisted? Who knows.

I really don't feel like you should go to a school if you feel embarrassed about going to it, hell, I feel like you shouldn't even have bothered applying if you don't want to go there at all. If you are so dead set on going to a top tier school, maybe you should have used the money on your safety schools on applications on other top tier schools, at least that way you have a higher chance of getting the prestige.

It's especially frustrating because I have friends who got acceptances like a month ago (but for math instead of CS), and there's other people posting on the results section who have gotten waitlists and interviews, but for some reason I chose mostly schools who just haven't released anything.

I don't even know what to do at this point, all the departments I applied to have been radio silent for two months now, one of them accepted a ton of people a few weeks ago, so I'm guessing that option is probably dead, but the rest have only showed up as a ton of rejects, interviews or POIs contacting a single student to tell them they're being recommended or whatever. My area is CS, which doesn't usually do interviews, but I still can't shake off this feeling of anxiety that maybe everyone rejected me.

I'm applying for a PhD in CS. I have been worrying about what my third LoR since I don't have an ideal candidate to seal my other two letters. Right now my first letter would be from a professor from the physics department I did research with for two years, and my second one would be a professor from an REU I did this year, however, I'm not sure who I should go with for the third LoR. Since I don't have anyone from my faculty yet I feel like I should get someone who is faculty at my department. My first option is a professor I have a very good relationship with, I took a year long class with her (software engineering) and then I went to help her as a TA the next year. I feel like she can attest to my leadership skills, as well as speak very well about how well I work. The only problem I can find with her is that she doesn't have a PhD, she's an MS. My second option is a professor that specializes in something close to what I want to do, but was largely against students doing a PhD fresh out of a bachelor's. She likes me a lot though, so I may be able to convince her? My third option is another professor that also does something similar to what I'm interested, but I feel like he wouldn't give me a letter of recommendation as strong as the other ones, however, he would still be willing to help.