Graduate School - Statement of Purpose

An insightful primer on writing a successful Statement of Purpose. It lays out what I suspected...you write to the poor admissions committee staff who have to wade through application after application.

The kernel: "Grad schools require the statement of purpose not only because they want to find about you as an applicant, they want you to really think about why you are taking such a life-changing step — truly and profoundly why."

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE EXAMPLES

• Sample Statement of Purpose (!) Holy shit this is this the best statement of purpose ever
• "One of the best I've ever read" (via)... well, it is good, but, to me, it sounds sort of lifeless in contrast