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Philip Guo - A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications

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I've now served on Ph.D. admissions committees for the past three four years as a professor at two different universities (and in two different kinds of departments: computer science and cognitive science). So far, I've evaluated around 600 Ph.D. program applications across both kinds of departments, which means reading 600 statements of purpose and 2,000 recommendation letters (3–4 per application). [Update in Dec 2020: in the years since this article was first written, I've probably read a few hundred more applications and rec letters.] This article should take you five minutes to read, which is probably the longest that anyone will spend reading your application. When I serve on admissions committees, I read around 150 applications, so I'll spend 3 to 5 minutes per app and place each into one of three piles: {good, ok, bad}. Then I may tell faculty in the relevant research sub-field to take a closer look at some of them. Final admissions decisions are made in very different ways dep

Philip Guo - A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications WARNING: do not share this page on social media or other public websites A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications December 2016 (perspective of an assistant professor ) Summary If you spend five minutes reading this article, you'll learn how to make your Ph.D. program application the strongest possible. Why five minutes? Because it's probably the longest that anyone will spend reading your application. I've now served on Ph.D. admissions committees for the past three four years as a professor at two different universities

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