from southern italy university. 28.8/30. 4 years of experience as software engineer. 1st of my class

Jan 15 invited to symposium (happened in Jan 28-29, 30 people attented selected from ~800 applicants) Late Mar offer. Selection rate 1%~2% (~10 people), do communicate with your POI frequently. Things are going too wild here. This year an NLP applicant even has a first author paper on the Nature journal (yes, that one, not NC/NMI/...) -- wtf??

From a good research university in the Netherlands

9.1+/10 GPA; EU student; 1 exchange year at a top 15 university in the U.S.; 1 ongoing RA; 1 ongoing internship; 1 completed 6-month internship; 1 completed startup experience; no pub; got accepted into the CS program as well :)

1 first-author pub in a low-tier conference, decent LoRs (I think?), internship at CERN, exchange at MIT (but didn't do super well), home university is not very recognized but okay-ish I guess. Didn't expect this to be honest, superrrr happy. Was notified via mail that there was an update on the website.

6/286 ranking student from top1 uni in Turkey. Good recommendations, nearly a year of research experience, 3 internship experiences, one hackathon win, work experience at an international startup as an AI engineer, and an Erasmus semester at a German university. Also mailed an ETH PhD student and started researching with him 2 months before the decision.

Two bachelor's degree ongoing, one in statistics, the other in Computer engineering, both with the same GPA. Italian University. No internships or projects. Maybe good LoR.

GPA is Masters, Interviewed in late January.

From KIT in Germany. 1.2 GPA (top 3%), no research experience, only one internship at a large company in germany. Okay LOR and SOP (Do not have any comaprison).

Top Italian uni with a GPA of 29.53/30. Strong LoRs, decent SoP. Exchange semester at a top Asian uni. Several projects and an ongoing research thesis in Machine Learning.

GPA: 9.1/10 Top uni in Spain Several papers accepted in international conferences 2 years of research experience in Computer Vision, Deep Learning and NLP 2 LoR from 2 supervisors of different research labs.

Italian university, 29.35/30. There is hope.