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Some useful resource for PhD applicants

This is some useful info collected by Jialin Lu [luxxxlucy@gmail.com]

hope everyone got good results on admissions of graduate schools

Advice on cosidering graduate school

• Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School by Phil Agre UCLA

advice for phd admissions

• tips on apply guaduate school by

• A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications

  all by Prof. Philip Guo in UCSD, the first is written in 2006, latter in 2016.

• Advice for Foreign Students Wishing to Pursue Graduate Study in Computer Science at UCSC by Jim Whitehead Prof in UCSC

• FAQ: Applying to Graduate School for Computer Science

• Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science by Mor Harchol-Balter CMU

• HOWTO: Get into grad school for science, engineering, math and computer science by Matt Might, University of Alabama at Birmingham

advice for writing and communicataing with Profs

• tips on how to send cold email

Good examplars of statement of purpose

• Philip Guo (go to MIT) now professor at UCSD

  • Statement of research purpose
  • supplemental material

• Mitchell Gordon go to standford CS

  • statement of purpose

• Jeremy Warner go to UC Berkeley CS

  • statement of purpose

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Experience of PhD career

• PhD memoir by Prof. Philip Guo in UCSD
• “So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!” by Ronald T. Azuma, original version 1997, last revised in 2017