Statements of Purpose - or SOPs - are an essential component of your application as an aspiring graduate student. However, despite their importance and centrality to most applications, the vast majority of advice, techniques and templates for writing SOPs Master's programs in the US is incorrect. In the past year, we have helped over 1000 students shape their SOPs who got offers from every Ivy and top 20 university in the US.

Most of them - including those that eventually got into top universities - seemed to initially lack understanding of a key component necessary to write a great Statement of Purpose: what a Graduate Admissions Committee in a university looks for in your Statement of Purpose.

Using this as the guiding idea, we will discuss the commonest mistakes applicants make, and how each of them is perceived by the Graduate Admissions Committee. As with any piece of writing, the first key principle is: understand your audience and tailor your writing accordingly. We will discuss actionable strategies to communicate your application's strengths & counter its weaknesses, if any. We will understand how to approach writing an SOP not as an "English literature essay", but as a technical document, optimizing for clarity of communication, conciseness, and substantive technical content in your field of interest. Following this, Rishabh will do a live re-write of a student's SOP on the webinar to show you how to apply our feedback and advice, followed by 20 to 30 mins of QnA.

Having established a framework to think about writing great SOPs, we will then discuss techniques to apply the same ideas into writing an outstanding Resume in a format that is accepted and appreciated by Admissions Committees in the US. Further, we will dive into the process of getting a great Letter of Recommendation - exactly as advised by top faculty and admissions officers in the US. We will discuss how to craft a point sheet to share with your recommender to create a compelling LOR that does not follow a template, but actually speaks to your application's strengths and helps you counteract its weaknesses.

By the end of this webinar, you will not only have understood what makes a great set of admissions documents (SOP, LORs and resume) in the eyes of the admissions committees, but also how to write one.

Attendees will receive copies of sample SOPs, resumes & LORs that meet all the criteria we discuss in the webinar and that can serve as a model for their own documents. They will also be able to submit their SOPs or LORs for a free, personalized review with Gradly.