Sunday, September 27, 2015

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Statement of Purpose


What is a Statement of Purpose?
  • An Essay which depicts an applicant.
  • The Admission Committee gets to know who you are through your statement of purpose.

What does the Admission Committee expect from your Personal Statement?
  • Why do you want to pursue the course you are applying for?
  • How relevant is the course to your long term career plans/goals?
  • What are the motivations that are driving your life at this point in time?
  • What are your past accomplishments – academic, extra curricular and other contributions?

 Build Your Personal Statement :

Think about yourself and start making a rough draft of your personal statement. 

Mention –
  • Write down all the past accomplishments – academic, extra curricular, social contributions, sports, awards… –whatever you have done well in life.
  • What do you want to do in life? What is the career you want to choose for yourself and why?
  • How will taking up this course of study help you achieve career long term goals that you have described above?
  • What qualifies you to have all the Success you desire?
  • Why did you select the university you are applying? ( Study the prospectus / refer website  of   the university)
      Polish your Personal Statement and check if:-
  •           Personal statement is grammatically correct
  •      Flow of the content is good
  •           Doesn’t exceed the prescribed word limit
  •           It is Enthusiastic, Confident, friendly in tone
  •      It is simple and flawless
     Click the link below to download the sample SOP:
     Statement of Purpose



3 comments:

  1. As a graduating student, I think that the statement of purpose is the hardest thing I will ever write.
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  2. Hey, thanks for a post! Can you tell more about extra curricular? Because I've read at this website on statement of purpose that it is bad to tell about extra curriculat that is not relevant to your field. Is that so? Thanks for your time!

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  3. Great post, thanks! But recently I have read here about one more interesting document - diversity statement. Have you ever heard about it? I want to try to create it and I hope with it I will impress the committee.

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