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I'd submitted my application to SUNY SB in late December, but since that my app status hasn't changed. It still indicates that application is completed and nothing more. Does anybody have the same situation?

I hope they changed something in their usual pattern, because I really expected to hear something (something except rejection of course) from Cornell.

In the last years they sent admits in one day. And several days after - rejections in form of admission to Master without fin. aid.

Thx for info

Guys, how long did your interview lasted? Mine was something about hour. I'm curious was it too long or too short in comparison with others.

Does anybody know how to filter out masters results?

According to some of this forum posts, such people (who goes directly without interview) exist, but they had really killer profiles.

I'm taking into account only this forum posts.

Interview is a good sign, but according to last years, mostly of interviewed people at UCB were rejected:(

I haven't heard anything. But it's very likely that if you have not received anything, you'll be rejected. Because in the last years they sent decisions in one day

Hey guys, has anybody received e-mails from professors, which were listed in SOP?

Damn, I've just received AW - 3.0. I'm so unlucky. What do you think, is AW important during admission?

What do you think about the following question? I want to introduce my research field in the introduction (it is Computer Security). And then I'm planning to write SOP without any mention of Computer Science (that's the program I'm applying to). Do you think that it is ok? I'm afraid that comittee may consider me as a "one-sided person", that is not interested in any other aspects of Computer Security.

Thanks for your comment! In fact I don't expect that these conferences are in top, their acceptance rate is something like 35 percents. Also I didn't got the following: does it mean that my work experience in a company that is related to my research field weights very little during the admission process.

Now i'm finishing one of top 5 Russian schools in Computer Science. My GPA is 4,92 of 5. GRE Q800/V460 AW - not available yet. (but I expect something about 4) TOEFL 94/120 3 years of research experience in Computer Security Lab, 7 publications (+1 in process), 2 on international conferences. 3 years of work experience in one of the leading russian companies in Computer Security (for example IBM is among my company's partners). Excellent recommendations from: 1) Professor from my university, he is rather famous in cryptography. He was my lecturer for two years. I've done one research with my mate under his supervision on my own initiative. 2) My advisor. He is Associate professor in my university, he has about two dozens pubs in international conferences and journals. 3) One of directors from my company. (In fact he is also professor from my university). He knows me very well, because I've done several projects that he co-supervised. Also I was with him as a technical expert during several negotiations in US. I don't know, my TOEFL really drives me to distraction. In fact I'd retook it three days ago, but I don't expect that next result will be significantly better. I've divided list of the universities in three groups: hard, moderate and safe: hard: Cornell, Stanford moderate: UCSD, UCI, UCD, Columbia, UNC, Un of Texas at Austin, UCSC, Penn State Safe: Central Florida, Bighampton, University of Cincinnati I'm expecting some comments:)