<p>Most computer science apps were due Dec 15th, are people hearing back yet?</p>
<p>I was accepted into UIllinois-UC yesterday. Haven't heard back from UWashington, Cornell, UMaryland, Columbia, or Princeton.</p>
<p>congratulations on UIUC! was it for PhD or MS? Did you hear from a professor?</p>
<p>i haven't heard from any place...</p>
<p>Wow that is very early. Congratulations. My D did not apply there and she hasn't heard from anyone. I hear that at UWMadison the committee is just starting to look at apps.</p>
<p>Do most CS PhD programs accept without interviews? That is the way it looked to me at gradcafe.</p>
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<p>I was contacted by a professor from UIUC a week or two ago who was interested in offering me an RA after reviewing my application. He said he would put in a recommendation for my admission - I guess it worked. The actual acceptance email was from the Director of CS Graduate Admissions.</p>
<p>I don't think many places interview for comp. sci., although I have a phone interview with a professor from Columbia in February.</p>
<p>I don't know if UIUC arranges a visiting day though. I am also applying to engineering programs and it seems a paid-for visit is standard if accepted for those programs.</p>
<p>I was emailed some more info: UIUC's visiting days are on the weekend of Feb 28 but you have to RSVP for them by January 29th. All decisions have probably been made or will probably made latest by this week.</p>
<p>Record number of CS applicants this year? This is what I'm hearing. How about you?</p>
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<p>I would be very surprised if it was a record year for CS. I know my school's department in particular is half its size from the dotcom era.</p>
<p>UW Madison has a record number at 1,000.</p>
<p>I had thought in the .com era everyone was out trying to do startups and make crazy piles of money, not applying for PhD programs. At least that was going on in SF.</p>
<p>dd got an intention letter today from a top 20 school. she is deliriously happy.</p>
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<p>Yes actually looking back at the numbers I was mistaken. While the undergraduate enrollment has dropped to 50% of what it was in 1998, graduate enrollment more or less doubled.</p>
<p>I see a lot of people saying they received phone calls from UWashington about acceptance. My phone is broken :( -- Did they also update the status on the online app?</p>
<p>I don't think they updated it yet - it was probably professors who were calling the students they liked and I don't think they update the status. I may be wrong though</p>
<p>Well, my first rejection came in from UWashington-Seattle today via Email. Something about 1100+ applicants and only ~7% admitted. At least I'm into a school I preferred over UW anyway...</p>
<p>Visiting Seattle would have been fun though :(</p>
<p>Interesting though, I could tell from the subject it was a rejection immediately. All of my acceptances said something like "Offer from University X", "Welcome to University X", or "Admission to University X". The rejection email subject was simply "Your application to Computer Science at the University of Washington".</p>
<p>haha one of my acceptances was titled XX PhD program in computer science;p</p>
<p>I saw that this thread has huge views as opposed to posts, compared to to others.</p>
<p>But where are you all? What did you decide?</p>
<p>My daughter is close to a decision after 3 accepts. UCLA, UW-Madison and UMD. She has quite a few rejections, but she also has quite a few schools not give an accept or decline. She is wanting to withdraw at this point, because she has done the visits and pretty much happy with decision. However, there are at least 2 schools that are important on the nonresponse list.</p>
<p>I think she has had a professor to study with in mind early, and it hasn’t changed too much.</p>
<p>She is in Theory, so it is kind of esoteric, and she is not too much interested in any other area of CS. I’m kind of freaked about that.</p>
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<p>Just wondering, why? Are you worried that she will be shut out of the non-academic job market?</p>
<p>(If so, keep in mind many of the subareas that go under theory have obvious industrial relevance - algorithms & complexity theory are useful in almost everything, computational geometry is useful in robotics and graphics, parallel computation is useful anywhere that does high-performance computing, crypto is useful in security, etc.)</p>
<p>Yes, you’ve got it. I am a bit concerned about the difficulty in academic employment, and viability in industry. She is likely to do complexity and algorithms and has done quite a bit of crypto. Thanks for the info, I guess I am coming from a point of little knowledge-- and all you ever hear about are software engineers.</p>
<p>With a background in complexity and algorithms, if all else failed, I suspect she could get a software engineering job at one of the more prestigious companies (e.g. Google). They like engineers who know their theory. But there are also plenty of industrial opportunities. A PhD with background in crypto and algorithms would make her highly desirable to many defense contractors, national labs, and government-funded research agencies (e.g. the NSA), as well as the research divisions of the huge tech companies (IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Bell Labs, etc). And there would be a few startups that would want someone like her as well.</p>