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From what I understand British schools do have a rolling timeline. Once your application is complete, all transcripts and LORs are in, they send it to the Lab that you applied to. The department or labs try to make a decision within 6 weeks of that. At least that is how it worked at Cambridge and Edinburgh, I am pretty sure that is how Imperial College works too.

PhD Computer Science, applied to just 2 places, and just overseas. I figured if I did not get in I could apply to some US / Canadian schools next year. Cambridge - rejected University of Edinburgh - accepted (waiting for word on funding) Good with your apps.

Hey don't let one rejection get you down too much. I was rejected really early by one of the schools I applied for, and basically wrote off that I would get in anywhere, I figured there must be some really big red flag in my application for them to turn me down so quick. But a few weeks after that I got an interview and later an acceptance from a school I really was not expecting to get in to. So as others have said chin up, it really is a bit of a crap shoot.

Good question, I have worked at a very well known large computer company, for the past 3 years. Now that I have applied for grad school I am not sure what to tell them, I would really like to come back to this company in there research division when I am done so I want to minimize my bride burring. I am going to have to take an overly long vacation at an inconvenient time for them (I have decided to go to school in the UK so I can't really visit there just for a day or so, going to have to be there for about a week), I have my tickets to go to Scotland for early march but have not put in for vacation time yet. What have you all used as excuses

What it is?!?!? I seem to have missed out on that

I'm in the same boat as the rest of you, but I have applied to UK schools mostly. They seem to act earlier especially if you are an international students dew to the funding requirements. Application deadlines in October and you start to here from them in December and January. Already got rejected by Cambridge, and have an interview coming up with the University of Edinburgh in early January. My sympathies with every one here having to wait till February and later. Good luck all