Grad Admissions essay help

tmhyd720
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:26:22 +0000

I definitely felt that I did the same thing as you. My pervious experience section (analogous to a CV) covered experiences and projects in my UG (which frankly are related to my current field but don’t reflect my current interests) as well as other more relevant experiences.

In my statement of purpose I mention a project from my UG, but only in relation to the methodology I used, and my internship experience which is relevant to my field.

What really mixed me up is that the SoP asks you to describe “research interests” and “career goals” and there is a completely separate section for you to describe “interests” and “goals”. I don’t really understand that distinction.

I really just felt like writing, “See Statement of Purpose” in that section, because all of the info was there already and I didn’t see a need to articulate those more.

Or another strong response would have been, “nice house in the suburbs, 2 car garage, 2 perfect kids, a house in Hawaii” or something cliche like that.