GALIB Goes For PH.D
GALIB Goes For PH.D
GALIB Goes For PH.D
Program”
To provide a one-stop service regarding the information about the whole admission
process in PhD program
► BSS, MSS
► Standardized Tests
GRE
TOFEL
► Application Package
Recommendation
Essay
Online Application
► VISA
BSS, MSS
GRE
► Fix time to take GRE
► Pay GRE fees
► Choose 4 schools
► Buy appropriate books (NOVA, Barron’s,
Big Book, Arco’s Real GRE Essays)
► Do lots, lots and lots of maths
► Memorize at least 3500 words
► Improve your timing
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TOEFL
Recommendation
► Traditional Essay
► Theme Based Essay
► Give special emphasis on the field your school specializes on.
► Highlight your personal details which you think make you unique from rest of the
application pool.
► Why Economics? Why PhD? Why you? Why USA? Why “X” university?
► Best Way: Show that you are intrigued with a specific problem, you can think
critically on the basis of what you have learnt and most importantly you are the
right person to work on it. While doing so, your personality and writing skill
should be reflected as well.
► Do not confuse essay with resume. Resume tells people what you do. And SOP
should tell people why you do it.
Online Application
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Arrangement of Application Package
► A letter-head
► Official Transcript in a sealed envelope
► 3 recommendation letters in sealed envelops. Keep the supplementary
recommendation form in the same envelop.
► SOP
► Your Resume
► Photocopy of GRE, TOEFL score report.
► A syllabus booklet (attested by Chairman)
► Usually application should be sent in two different addresses- Graduate office and
Program office.
► Look for special criteria (eg. UC Davis, UC Riverside, SIC, Brown)
► Deadlines.
► Additional score report of TOEFL, GRE.
► Sometimes school requires that the transcript should be sent directly by register
office (U Kentucky)
Postal Information
VISA
► Valid Passport
► I-20/ SEVIS Fee Receipt
► Offer letter
► Standardized GRE/TOEFL score report sheet
► Financial Statement
► Birth Certificate (optional)
► Police Clearance certificate (optional)
► Letter from an influential official (optional)
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Choosing Universities
► Ambitious
► Hopeful
► Safety
► Give special preference to those where students from DU has already enrolled or
passed in recent years
► Choose specialized Dept. as your Safety.
My personal Features
► Recommendation by head of the department, one core course teacher and one
applied course.
► Attend SAESM twice.
► Wrote three papers in different occasions.
► Worked as TA in NSU.
► Worked as RA in BIDS.
► Worked as a surveyor in UNDP
► MSS student
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Why I think I got into 6 places
Fixed Cost:
GRE fee: $170
TOEFL fee: $150
Department Transcript Fee: Tk. 300
Register Building Transcript Fee: Tk 500 (normal)
Tk. 1000 (Urgent)
VISA Fee: $130 + service charge (Tk. 500)
SEVIS Fee: $100
Airfare: Tk. 70000-80000
Variable cost:
University Admission Fees: $50-60
Additional GRE Score report fee: $15 + $6
Additional TOEFL Score report fee: $17
Register Office Transcript: Tk. 500/1000 (plus speed money!!)
Departmental Transcript: Tk. 50
Postal Cost: Tk. 800-1800
Conclusion