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Statement of Purpose
Your previous academic background and scores in the standardised tests ( GRE / SAT) show what you are capable of delivering. The admissions committee also wants to know what are the motivations that are driving your life at this point in time. Why do you want to pursue the course you are applying for?
How relevant is the course to your long term goals?
Since you will not go through an interview, the admissions committee gets to know about you as a person through your SOP. SOP is very important. Spend time to get it right.
How can you get it right? - by being honest about yourself and projecting your true self in the SOP.
What should you do to write a good SOP?
Think about yourself and do the following exercise:
* Write down all your past accomplishments - academic, extra curricular, social contributions, sports - whatever you've done well in life. Also write down all the things that you feel or care for strongly.
* What is it that you want to do in life? What is the career you want to choose for yourself in the future and why?
* Write down the area that you want to study further in. How will taking up this course of study help you achieve your long term career goals that you described above?
* Now, write down why should you have the life that you want? Why should you get all the things you listed above? What qualifies you to have all the success you desire?