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Ph.D., Ready or Not, Here I Come

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To increase your acceptance rate, you may want to make your Ph.D. application stands out from the other applications. You may need to spend enough time and effort to prepare your application. This chapter focuses on your preparation to apply for Ph.D. program. Tips and tricks in this chapter would help you to prepare good Ph.D. application documents that would be able to attract the reviewer’s attentions.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

—Lao Tzu

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Lindawati (2017). Ph.D., Ready or Not, Here I Come. In: Cracking a Ph.D.. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2152-7_3

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