longhorn

Sorry to hear that. I don't know why they enjoy torturing us like this :evil:

Seems like today is the "take out the trash" day for UCSD. I see a couple of rejects posted.

I got an email from them notifying acceptance just a few minutes back. Check your email!

To all those who are still waiting, it might be worth checking with the department. From what I know, our graduate secretary told us that they received around 70 files from the admission committee on the day the acceptance emails were sent out.

Congrats to all who got in! I hope to see you all at GradFest The information I received is that the department received around 600 applications, and ~70 offers were made.

Dr. Brent Waters also joined UT recently as Assistant Professor.

I actually applied to UT, forgot to add in my signature :oops: However, I don't think the networked systems research at UT is as strong as in other schools I applied to.

Life's fine now... will get worse when the summer starts

Oops sorry... :oops:

AFAIK, there hasn't been any admits till now. I know they sent out a bunch of interview calls. I'll update you guys as and when I get any information.

Ivan3749, which field are you applying to?

I just wrote what I was told.

As an "insider", I had a talk with one of my professors. The info is that they received much more applications, and the quality of application pool is extremely strong this year. We were informed that the visit weekend would be on March 27, so I guess the decisions would be out in a couple of weeks. Best of luck!

congrats heheman! I think I'm out at UCSD too

I agree with michigantrumpet. It's extremely hard to judge your own essay. Last year, I thought I had an OK essay. I showed it to a few professors, and a few PhD students and the unanimous answer was it was crap. I spent a month rewriting the whole thing this year. I got it reviewed by a few professors and a few of my friends. After 4 rounds of revision, they said it looked OK. I also modified my essay for each school, pointing out who I wanted to work with and how I might be a good fit given my background.