I want to share some important tips collected from CSE BUET yahoo groups about graduate admission process in top rank university. I personally find it very helpful.. The following post should be helpful for our Fall 2011 applicants: http://people.csail.mit.edu/madry/blog/?p=8 along the same line, Jeff Erickson's December'09 post is equally valuable (Ragib bhai had sent the link previously to this group): http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2009/12/reading-phd-applications.html (and please do not skip the subsequent comments on this post). --Samee Dear future applicants, I am probably writing to this group after a long period of time. It might be a long mail. I would like to express some of my suggestions on graduate admission process, more specifically on selecting universities/ research groups. I think past and present graduate students will agree with me. So you might consider them as 'reflections of past/present graduate students' :) Usually, when people from BUET