Anthropology + Informatics double major; Anthro honors senior thesis; didn't read the LORs (3) but I trusted them.

Expected, very high math expectations

2 pubs/2 poster awards/good recs/1 year relevant industry experience. Looks like I'm in good company.

BS/MS from a top 100 US uni. 10 publications (8 first author). 2 under review (1 first author). 2+ yrs research experience

Undergrad topper, 2 papers (second author), strong LoRs, 2+ years R & D experience in area of interest.

Accept from CMU. Don't really care.

2 conference publications, 1 journal submission under review, several institutional scholarships and international awards, top 3% GPA of Sharif, strong SOP and LOR's.

Masters from IISc with 7.8/8 CGPA. 1 first-author ACM/IEEE publication.

Applied for ML. Masters in Computer Science from top 4 UK uni. 3.66 GPA equivalent.. 3 Books published. 2 papers in Nobody cares Journal in OS/Networks. 1 Paper as a first Author submitted in AAAI. 1 in TKDE. Did a start up as well. 1 TA. 1 research internship. Strong LOR, Strong SOP. Probably being Pakistani is my flaw. 3 rejections so far. Goodluck

BA in CS, concentration in linguistics; BS in math 7 months of research. Female. Weird academic history. Super reach school, not a very good fit!

One publication in top CS conference, one tech report, research statement, 2 years of work experience at Google, MSR internship

Non-CS undergrad

Expected, but one has to try, right?

Expected. Subject test is math.

Strange, since POI said he like my profile.