Official interview invitation from faculty. 10+ pub, oral talk at top conference. No GRE.

Had an interview with a POI. Nothing too technical, discussed what I have been working on and what I want to do research on during the PhD. Very pleasurable experience. 4 papers at top AI conferences, I'm in a niche field.

9/10 GPA from IIT Bombay, 18 first author papers in low tier-journals, 81 TOEFL. Light colored skin. 1 online interview with PI I was interested in and acceptance 3 days later.

Interview requested by POI. 5 first author papers at top AI/ML conferences.

3 first author, 4 accepted, 5 under review, 2 ug RA, reviewer in CVPR. Had interview with PI. Got official email from adcoms.

15 first author papers published in ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and 12 first author papers in AAAI and AISTATS. 4000 citations total. Bad profile overall.

4 first author papers at top conferences, top5 cs grad

3+ Years of Research Experience, with 10+ publications.

Received email from POI about signing up for interview later this week. Fingers crossed for everyone!

5 first author papers published in ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and 2 first author papers in AAAI and AISTATS. 400 citations total. Mediocre profile overall.

Informal, astrophysics subfield.