You engineers are a fascinating bunch. Truly, the work you do is exciting. Whenever I receive a first-draft statement of purpose for electrical engineering, I look forward to learning about quantum computing, solar cells, or wild biomedical sensors that could change humanity forever. It’s …
Graduate Statement of Purpose Samples
From 0 to 5 PhD Offers: A Public Health Social Sciences SOP Story
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite success stories are those who come from students I’ve never met. Such was the case with this remarkable email I received after the incredibly competitive 2021-22 PhD admissions cycle. Lia titled her email “Thank you from a successful PhD …
SOP for PhD Sample – The Best Essay I’ve Ever Seen (Biomedical Engineering)
How do you earn admission to the #1 PhD program in your field? How to get admitted to 5 more for good measure? The answer isn’t as complicated as it seems: you need to be a rock star researcher, and you need to write a luminous, fiercely intelligent statement of purpose. One of these I can’t help …
Flight Attendant to Elite Researcher: A Brilliant Sample SOP for Nontraditional Applicants
How does one go from working as a flight attendant to conducting anthropology research at the #1 grad program in the world? This is no riddle. Nor is it a Hollywood movie. It’s a true story, and it sounds absolutely unbelievable. Heck, I’d probably have thought so too. But then I met Leah, and read …
How to Write Your MHA Statement of Purpose: Success Stories
MHA applications are booming on SOPHAS. No surprise, yeah? ALL healthcare fields are booming these days! That’s good news if you want to manage a hospital’s nitty gritty finances or work in Insurance Consulting. Grad schools now offer better programs and residencies than ever. Yet, this also means …
How to Write Your MPH Statement of Purpose
If I’ve noticed any single trend in grad admissions over the last few years, it’s this: public health is blazing hot! Before COVID, relatively few students applied to MPH programs. Now, it’s easily the most popular (and thus most competitive) field I encounter among STEM students. Brown’s …
Why AI? A Machine Learning SOP Success Story
Writing a brilliant statement of purpose for AI/ML-focused grad programs takes more than a sophisticated essay structure. It requires conveying an explicit direction in your career goals. You can’t simply say: “Hey, I majored in Computer Science and I made great grades and I want to become an ML …
How to Write Your MFA Statement of Purpose: A Success Story
Though they may not realize it, Fine Arts students are cursed. (Believe me, I know, I was one.) Not only are they more stubborn than engineers, but often they suffer the misfortune of being shackled to creative self-expression. Of course, unbounded creativity is a necessary and glorious aspect of …
How to Write Your Computer Science Statement of Purpose
Do you find it difficult to “sell yourself”? Most CS students do, at least in my experience. It’s a funny quirk. When you ask what they want to study in the future, too many respond with “Artificial Intelligence” or “Machine Learning”…and then they say no more. Very few respond with specific ideas …
Statement of Purpose for PhD Admission (A Universal Formula)
Formulas are beautiful, aren’t they? Whether the elegance of a binary logarithm or the universe contained within the laws of thermodynamics, it’s wondrous to see how much we can explain through gracefully arranged information. Prose writing is no different. Even with the statement of purpose for PhD …