Thank you! I don't have any publications except a poster presentation. I was also a bit surprised but I believe according to their selection criteria posted, they value your academic excellence, research proposal, and reference letters more. Hope it helps and good luck!!:)
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Also not sure if this is gonna be useful to anyone but my status for UofT CGS-M changed from alternate to offered on April 4th (which I just noticed yesterday coz I didn't check for a week lol). So I'm assuming some schools may not wait for 21 days to give out the second round of offers. Hope this is helpful!
I believe offers for SCCP have gone out last week as far as I know. My POI mentioned that they have made their decisions on Feb 10th (Thursday) and were only allowed to contact students they admitted the Monday after (Feb 14th).