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Good to hear that those NAACL submissions are going well. Unfortunately, the committee's decision is likely to be final. Let me be clear that I had a very positive impression of you from our call. However, several first-year PhD students at UT recently joined the NLP groups (more than is typical), so we unfortunately had very little bandwidth to admit new NLP-focused students this year and had to turn away a lot of great applicants such as yourself. Sorry that it had to turn out that way -- but based on the strength of your application, I'm pretty sure you'll have some other great choices for PhD programs!
Best of luck in the future! Hope to see you around at conferences with some great work :)