Zetton

This is very normal. I got several such response from profs at UBC, UVic and others. I think you will have big chance. If he had found anyone, he would have rejected you by now. My guess is that he wants to hire the other guy who's also waiting for another better choice. So, after a while, your potential advisor would contact you. You may send another email to represent your strong wish to work with this advisor. It won't hurt.

Not long. I guess it was about 1 to 2 weeks. If you are applying for PhD or thesis-based master program, you should be able to get admitted if your potential advisor agreed to recruit you.

Thanks.

It is admitted now.

I was asked for providing my latest undergraduate transcript since the one I uploaded was issued in 2018. I did immediately and today the last statement "Offer Response Due Date: March 10, 2021" appears while yesterday it was not there definitely. I wonder if that means offer has been made internally?

I just got an email of offer from the Math department of UVic today and the stipend is above $22K combined with TA/RA(guess TA only). Direction is fluid dynamics. Also I am in "Under Reivew" status at U of Alberta with a tentative offer from a prof doing stochastic dynamics. The awkward thing is that I also got 2 interview by a prof at U of Waterloo who said that he would accept me after application deadline(Jan 15th), but so far I got no reply from him for more than a month. Not sure whether he is waiting for some other stronger applicant's reply at this moment.

Did you get any offer or interview?