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I guess it would only happen if you are on the waitlist.

To all people who have not received the offers from MIT, Stanford, or any other top schools, do not devalue yourself only because you are not accepted to the top CS Ph.D. programs. Sometimes, it's not your fault that you are not accepted by them and probably you just need some luck. As my undergrad advisor told me, Ph.D. admission is a fairly random process and you would never know what is really going on in the mind of those who are reviewing our profiles. Sometimes, even though we have perfect GPA, staller letters, and multiple 1st-author publications at the top conferences, we may still be rejected without an understandable reason. However, so what? Is being rejected by the top schools really means all of our past hard works are worthless? I don't think so. If you look back into what you have gone through in the past years, you would definitely realize that you have learned a lot and more importantly, you have unconsciously built a very solid research base for your future success in academia. Getting into a Ph.D. program is just another starting point in your life, and not getting into a Top CS Ph.D. program like MIT or Stanford should never ever be the reason that stops you become an outstanding future scholar. My past research supervisor Kishore Papineni graduated from the EECS Ph.D. program at Rice University, which even is not ranked in the top30 CS program in the US. However, it's not the reason that stops him become the leading CS research scientist in the NLP area and make really substantial works such as BLEU which has been widely used for around 20 years for MT evaluation. So, don't give up, don't lose hope, cheer up and move on. The future is always bright.

No. But we should receive the interview from them in this or next week. If not, we won't have a chance.

Got 2 portfolio visit until today from the media lab. I guess the visits are from affective computing and future sketches. This morning I received the email from the affective computing adiministrative assistant, saying that there are over 300 applicants who applied to the affective computing group, and they are most likely accepting 1-2 of the applicants. Also, professor Picard is still reviewing the applications this week and will finish up reviewing the application until the end of the next week. Then the POI will directly contact us if we are on the interview list in the first week of Feb. Hoping this information could be helpful to you guys.

I contacted the affactive computing administrative assistant this week. She said the POI just started reviewing the applications this week and would directly contact us if they have any questions within this month. So, I guess we just need to wait. Good Luck.

Got a portfolio visit from MIT but not sure it's EECS or Media Lab.

Hi guys, have you guys received any feedbacks from the media lab?

Hello everyone, I'm one of the MIT EECS PhD applicants for the 2021 fall. Recently, I saw someone already posted that they got acceptance to the MIT EECS Master program, which is so confusing because MIT only has the MEng EECS program for their own undergraduates and anyone who wants to get into their PhD program has to apply their PhD program. I contacted one of my potential POI at MIT, and he said he has not started reviewing the applicants' profiles and will start soon in the next week. It seems very unlikely that anyone can get acceptance at such a early time.

Applied to Affective computing, Social Machine, and Future Sketches. Still waiting for the interview now.