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To PhD applicants: A word about department rankings
When I was applying for my PhD, I used rankings of computer science departments to help me decide where to apply. Rankings are never perfect, but I didn’t have access to detailed knowledge of the research landscape, and the rankings helped to steer me in the right direction. In retrospect, I can see that the rankings were not perfect, and I made one or two silly mistakes about where to apply, but I would have made even more silly mistakes without them.
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