Fredphd2022

Indeed, I agree that the chance of the waitlisted being admitted in the end is slim.

I'm also waitlisted by UMD, IR field. It seems like they have a relatively long waitlist without specific ranking as indicated by the department coordinator.

Long-time lurker here. I think this "shortlist" may be pretty long ...... It could be very likely that they had removed only those with very low GPAs or TOEFL scores (given GRE is not required this time) by early January, which means there were still many applicants in the shortlist. If they had had a pretty short shortlist, Cornell would have released their first round of admission offers by late January or early February instead of keeping the applicants waiting till now.

I do not apply to UT Austin this cycle but one of my classmates was interviewed by her POI last week. I guess she is very likely to be on the finalist.