Resources for applying to grad school in CS

On this page, I collected some links related to graduate school applications, specifically for computer science. Note that no one person has a good view of this: decisions about your applications will be made by individual professors or admissions committees at individual departments in individual universities. No one really seriously studies specifically graduate admissions in CS, so the best anyone can offer is direct personal experience, things they heard, and common sense.

• Shriram Krishnamurthi maintains a FAQ on applying to graduate school in CS in the US here. SK prefers that people refer to the more up-to-date written document. There is also a (very slightly) outdated YouTube video here.
• Mor Harchol-Balter has a document aimed at CMU students about applying to grad school here. Note that the document is from 2014. CS has become more competitive in the last 10 years.
• I have a page on asking for reference letters
• I have a video on writing NSERC proposals here. (my proposal, "Kepler"'s proposal , slides)
• For 2023, the UofT DCS Graduate Application Assistance Program
• Sample CS PhD SOPs
• You can search the grad cafe for specific programs to see what people say. The Grad Cafe is an anonymous forum and is not necessarily reliable. It may be better than nothing.