Statement of Interest - EXAMPLES...?

[crovanika]

Hello fellow applicants,
I am planning to apply to several I/O PhD programs and have been working on drafts of my Statement of interest. I am very unsure about how they are turning out and I don't really have any professional at my disposal to help me. From what I have found online, I feel like I can't get a consistent idea of how a typical structure should look...how much personal history to include (if any) in the context of how it has influenced your career aspirations... etc. I am pretty nervous about this, as I feel like my GRE scores aren't going to impress anybody and the SOP is the only chance I have to persuade anyone to give me a shot. 

Has anyone come across an example of exceptional statements of interest? Or a useful guide on what to include? I understand it will be different for i/o compared to other areas.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[HAC]

https://www.owu.edu/files/resources/statement-of-purpose-2.pdf

This is a link to someone’s SOP who was accepted at Ann Arbor. 

https://psychology.unl.edu/psichi/Graduate_School_Application_Kisses_of_Death.pdf

This is an article written about things not to include in your statement.

 

Hope these help  

[crovanika]

On 11/27/2018 at 2:55 PM, HAC said:

https://www.owu.edu/files/resources/statement-of-purpose-2.pdf

This is a link to someone’s SOP who was accepted at Ann Arbor. 

https://psychology.unl.edu/psichi/Graduate_School_Application_Kisses_of_Death.pdf

This is an article written about things not to include in your statement.

 

Hope these help  

Thank you for this!