Zama

while reading your SoP I asked myself why University of Arizona? What makes it specific and so appealing for you? Is it just because Univ. of Arizona is one of the leaders in this field? If so, then it means you are not cool enough for the best one in this field. ( I am sure you are) Concentrate on why you chose this particular university and that will make you SoP spectacular. You vocabulary and analogy awsome for engineer ( I am also an engineer )... best wishes...

heyy... I am also applying for 2013 fall semester and having the same problem. One of my friends who is about to receive his PhD degree advised me to apply for Phd because the majority of universities automatically consider you for master's program if they reject you for PhD. So applying for PhD makes a win-win position. But, check the universities' sites... good luckk...

I am grateful to all of you who started this topic. Keep going. Most of advices influenced me greatly and my SOP on which I am working right away. Now, I wonder is it correct to mention the financial problems because of which the undegraduate years were challenging and affected my grades enermoulsy. Yet, my gpa in eng.ng is around 3.8 and in science around 3.7 ( double major). Because of the financial problems I had to work(kind of hard-work no related to eng.ng or science) in evenings and had little time for research. Anyway I keep going to work in my proffesor's lab... Is it correct to mention those problems or not? and about the length of SOP why only two pages??? Thankkkssssssss. Whish all of us enter the desired programs..

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