Writing an Outstanding Statement of Purpose

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, we will specifically break down the personalized feedback you will have received on your SOP via Gradly, and how you can put it to use to edit & re-write your draft. 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.

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