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Oh, and cause some people have been wondering when official rejections come out - I've got official rejections from CMU and Princeton. Not surprised by either given my "competitive, but not exactly cream of the crop" profile, though it is interesting since I did get an interview with the latter. (That said, the prof that I chatted with really didn't align with the interests listed in my SOP, so I was more surprised by the interview than the rejection on that one, lol.)

@StressedOutUser - Bold move there to only apply for one school for PhD. Most top CS schools admit rates are <10% and UW is definitely up there, especially depending on what subfield you want to go for.

Applied to too many schools. Still waiting to hear from my top one -- little anxious cause other people have been getting admits and I'm applying for a sub(sub?)field that's getting only more hot. It's also kind of weird because while some other folk have gotten interviews from there and I haven't, I also reached out to/chatted with two of the profs. One of them didn't exactly have a fit (and I hope I didn't seem like too much of a dumbass, lol) but the other one was okay, so I'm really not sure how to balance those factors. Worst comes to worst, I stay at my current cushy industry job... but man, having a change would be nice.