BA from a Greek University in unrelated field with CS major

Received email about an update to my application status at 7:16 pm pacific.

I have no idea how I got in, sobbing right now.

Didn't give GRE as it was optional. Institute rank 2 in an IIT. 1 journal publication, 2 conference publications. TA for 1 year. Working at a Faang since last 3 years. Congratulations to all admits!

International student. Did undergrad at an American university. 1 EMNLP paper, 2 ACL submissions. 1 research internship at Microsoft Research, 2 research internships at home uni, plus 3 random industry internships. 3 strong recommendations from PIs in Academia and the mentor from MSR. Tailored SOP for Stanford.

Senior Engg Manager at Big Tech, 10 years of exp. Reco from VP, CEO of startup and a PM (PM is Phd Stanford)

Got an email telling me to check the website, and the website said I got in! This is my first admit, I'm so happy!

- international applicant (Europe) - graduated in top 1% - thesis got published and awarded “best paper” - 3 LoRs, one from CEO of space company - founded startup that got acquired - internship at big tech company This is genuinely not to brag, but I did think I would be accepted. Am so curious about the reasoning of the committee, but unfortunately that will always be a black box. Sincere congratulations to everyone that got accepted, have a wonderful time at Stanford :)

Kindly ignore the waitlist. Has anyone heard anything about the MSc (thesis) program from them?

Applied for a second postgraduate degree; undergraduate and first postgraduate degrees are both EE.

7+ publications at top ML/NLP venues. 2 strong LORs from research advisors (1 with whom I had published papers with). 1 LOR from course prof.

Top 10 CS schools in US, full GPA, 1.5 years TA, 2 years research experience (one ICLR accept), 3 strong rec letters (1 teaching + 2 research). No internships after first-year (could be the reason?).

Congrats to all admitted folk!