133 - PhD Application Series: Preparing Application Materials, with Nathan Schneider and Roma Patel

This episode is the first in our current series on PhD
applications. How should people prepare their applications to PhD
programs in NLP? In this episode, we invite Nathan Schneider
(Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Georgetown
University) and Roma Patel (PhD student in Computer Science at
Brown University) to share their perspectives on preparing
application materials. We start by talking about what factors
should go into the decision to apply for PhD programs and how to
gain relevant experience. We then talk about the most important
parts of an application, focusing particularly on how to write a
strong statement of purpose and choose recommendation letter
writers. Blog posts mentioned in this episode: - Nathan Schneider’s
Advice on Statements of Purpose:
https://nschneid.medium.com/inside-ph-d-admissions-what-readers-look-for-in-a-statement-of-purpose-3db4e6081f80
- Student Perspectives on Applying to NLP PhD Programs:
https://blog.nelsonliu.me/2019/10/24/student-perspectives-on-applying-to-nlp-phd-programs/
Homepages: - Nathan Schneider:
https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/ - Roma Patel:
http://cs.brown.edu/people/rpatel59/ The hosts for this episode are
Alexis Ross and Nishant Subramani.