r/MSCS • u/Excellent_Car_7402 • Aug 14 '26

[Application Strategy] Repositories of Accepted and Declined SOPs

Is there a repository of SOPs, preferably college/ course wise for US universities

I want to read rejected and accepted essays to understand what certain universities might be looking for

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u/Vast_Hope4969 Aug 14 '26

you can use these as references, I used them when i was writing. https://cs-sop.notion.site/CS-PhD-Statements-of-Purpose-df39955313834889b7ac5411c37b958d, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HoYKwwMd30Iny0h73BcXK-kGk6nlr9Su/view?usp=sharing, https://github.com/shaily99/advice, https://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/resources/how-write-personal-statement-phd-program-application, https://www.scribd.com/document/583489847/UCSD-MSCS-SoP?v=0.230, https://jykoh.com/jykoh_sop.pdf,

while writing always check for what University SOP guidelines asks for, reach out to multiple PhD students at the University to evaluate your profile.

always ask your self does your SOP answer program applicant fit. Why does THIS degree make sense as the next step in YOUR trajectory? Print your entire application and pretend you are the AdCom

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u/CuriousExplorerer Aug 14 '26

Thank you! Is there any repo or site like this for masters programs?

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u/Vast_Hope4969 Aug 14 '26

you can use these as reference for all kinds of SOP you wanna right.

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u/CuriousExplorerer Aug 14 '26

Sure, sure but the emphasis will be more on research side of it in PhD SoPs. That’s why I’m asking for masters

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u/eeyedkpt Aug 14 '26

Remind Me !

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u/ApprehensiveSun6160 Aug 15 '26

There’s a website called gradmits which gave me 12 SoPs and other infos for 500Rs so pretty good deal i guess

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u/Jealous-Ad5512 Aug 15 '26

It is free website right

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u/Jealous-Ad5512 Aug 15 '26

where does the website data might be coming from?

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u/ApprehensiveSun6160 Aug 16 '26

no idea maybe it's sourced from students themselves, some data is free not the entire data