These days, all of master students in my lab is working on their papers. One is to apply for PRL, and the others for PRB. I don't know how hard it would be to write a paper to pass the review.
If there were some criteria to see whether one can be successful or not in academic areas, such as the number of papers you've ever published or something, I really want it.
By the way, I'm thinking whether I should go to Doctor course or not. I think I'm a little overconfident, but after all, I'm eager to test myself in the right place.