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How do I write a Statement of Purpose for my grad school application? | Biophysics at CMU

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It’s that time of the year again: grad school applications are soon due! You have dutifully selected a good set of schools, following the “reach/middle/safe” principle; you’ve secured writers for your letters of recommendation; you’ve filled out many forms; maybe you also have submitted GRE or TOEFL or IELTS scores—and now you look with dread at that pristinely empty text document on the screen in front of you, titled “Statement of Purpose”. The cursor goes blink, but your mind is blank. To be honest: I don’t know for sure what that feels like. I have never applied for graduate school in the US. But I have served on graduate school admissions committees here; in fact, I have chaired them for many years. And in that position I have read hundreds upon hundreds of Statements of Purpose. I would like to think that I’ve pretty much seen it all. And with that knowledge, earned by experience if not by practice, I would like to share a few tips for those of you who are understandably unsure ho

How do I write a Statement of Purpose for my grad school application? | Biophysics at CMU How do I write a Statement of Purpose for my grad school application? by Markus Deserno | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized It's that time of the year again: grad school applications are soon due ! You have dutifully selected a good set of schools, following the "reach/middle/safe" principle; you've secured writers for your letters of recommendation; you've filled out many forms; maybe you also have submitted GRE or TOEFL or IELTS scores—and now you look with dread at that pristinely empty text document on the

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