Statement of Purpose, Personal History, Diversity

Writing SOPs is hard! Fret with other applicants here. Advice on how to find that 'unique story'.

Please think carefully about posting your full Statement of Purpose here for critique.

Once posted, as with all forums on this site, you have sixty minutes to edit your post. After that, it will STAY here, posted for the world to see. You will not be able to remove it nor edit it and we are not sympathetic to requests to remove posts at a later date.

The reason for this policy has been explained several times, but is mainly to prevent situations where someone makes a post, gets useful feedback and then edits out their original request rendering the entire thread useless. This is not in keeping with the spirit of this site.

As an alternative to posting here, perhaps you can solicit requests and send your SOPs via PM.

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Address 'future' in SOP

By epi_man, October 31, 2010
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- epi_man
- October 31, 2010
Writing out School Names

By Apples, October 31, 2010
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- adaptations
- October 31, 2010
Hello! Anyone have a few moments to look over my SOP?

By tinapickles, October 27, 2010
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- tinapickles
- October 31, 2010
Mentioning Teaching in SOP

By tinapickles, October 30, 2010
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- blackshirt
- October 31, 2010
Please address both strengths and weaknesses...

By athenianstranger, October 28, 2010
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- coyabean
- October 30, 2010
SOP review

By eea1987, October 29, 2010
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- epi_man
- October 30, 2010
Few questions

By speed, October 21, 2010
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- speed
- October 30, 2010
Statement of Purpose Uncertainty

By vindicated, October 29, 2010
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- repatriate
- October 30, 2010
Research experience in SOP

By GutLogic, October 28, 2010
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- GutLogic
- October 29, 2010
Undergradaute University Ranking

By speed, October 28, 2010
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- rising_star
- October 29, 2010
How to address transferring in SOP

By sacklunch, October 28, 2010
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- Sparky
- October 29, 2010
Is 1200 words too long

By was1984, October 27, 2010
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- 2.1k views
- DrFaustus666
- October 27, 2010
SoP critique

By was1984, October 22, 2010
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- newms
- October 27, 2010
Read my SOP please!

By schoolpsych_hopeful, October 22, 2010
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- newms
- October 27, 2010
Who wants to check out my SoP for social science

By TheDude, October 22, 2010
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- Bukharan
- October 27, 2010
Creativity Ok in SoP?

By pinot noir, October 24, 2010
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- morningdew
- October 26, 2010
Project Ideas in SOP

By was1984, October 25, 2010
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- was1984
- October 26, 2010
SOP Hook--Thoughts?

By tinapickles, October 23, 2010
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- 4.9k views
- tinapickles
- October 25, 2010
Addressing seeming lack of focus in SOP

By elleblum, October 21, 2010
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- 1.9k views
- elleblum
- October 25, 2010
SOP Critique - History

By sidiosquiere, October 22, 2010
- 1 reply
- 1.2k views
- Lost in transition
- October 22, 2010
GRE in the SOP?

By sammo3182, October 20, 2010
- 6 replies
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- sammo3182
- October 20, 2010
SOP critique required

By speed, October 20, 2010
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- 822 views
- speed
- October 20, 2010
Help writing SOP for EE MS application

By dman12, October 20, 2010
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- 2.3k views
- newms
- October 20, 2010
Need another set of eyes for my SoP

By newms, October 16, 2010
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- 1.6k views
- newms
- October 20, 2010
SOP Review Help

By Ph.D. IR, October 4, 2010
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- 1.6k views
- Lost in transition
- October 20, 2010