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human
Ever met an undergrad like this?

I am TAing a course and one of my students comes to visit me in office hours fairly frequently. She started talking about feeling bad about not having any publications. I told her it was normal since she is only a first year and I didn't have a publication until 4th year, from a 2nd year project but she is convinced that the times have changed because a person from her floor in first year has over 40 publications. I told her he probably exaggerated and that this is so far out of the realm of possibility that I have a hard time believing it but she is entirely dejected. 

I have never heard of that but she gave me his name, and out of pure curiousity, I googled him later. He actually...has 3 pages of papers published on Google Scholar. Not in my field, so I can't evaluate the quality of the journals but 2.6 in one common journal, 20 something in another.

Anybody ever seen that? Has undergraduate schooling changed so much? I remember none of my friends published anything beyond our college's undergraduate research journal, with one notable exception being a guy who got into the right lab at the right time, but this guy must have been publishing on cancer since Gr. 9.
gpt
You're sure it's not one of his parents?

The only realistic way for a first year to have 40 meaningful papers published is for Dr So-and-so to decide to go back to do another Bachelors. This does not happen in any meaningful way otherwise.