lnz1221 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Ok, so one of my grad programs requires us to enter our SOP on the online application, but it has a word limit of 300! Which is super short, considering my SOP for most of my other schools is about 600 words. So obviously I had to cut out a lot, and I feel like it's really bad. I have to mail in other forms, so should I include my longer version SOP, since I feel that it's better written? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeruK Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Sometimes it makes sense to send in extra documents, especially to explain/support something there is no space for in the standard application. However, this is not one of those cases. Since you are requested to write a 300 word SOP, you should not be sending an additional longer SOP. Instead, I would recommend that you write a new SOP that fits within 300 words instead of just cutting out stuff from a 600 word SOP. Being concise and following directions are important parts of being a graduate student! fencergirl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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