[D] Folks here have no idea how competitive top PhD program admissions are these days, wow...

I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford specializing in ML/NLP, and I see the profiles of everyone admitted to our school (and similar top schools) these days since I'm right in the center of everything (and have been for years).

I'm reading the comments on the [other thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/s/o1CLXtdxh8) and honestly shocked. So many ppl believe the post is fake and I see comments saying things like "you don't even need top conference papers to get into top PhD programs" (this …

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