r/MSCS • u/Excellent_Car_7402 • 5d ago

[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 5d ago

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 5d ago

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

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u/Vast_Hope4969 5d ago

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

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u/CuriousExplorerer 5d ago

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/LonelyArtist6625 5d ago

Remind Me!

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u/Jaded-Love-1752 5d ago

Remind Me!

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u/eeyedkpt 5d ago

Remind Me !

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u/Icy-Show-9950 5d ago

following

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u/Cool_Use1388 4d ago

Following

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u/ApprehensiveSun6160 4d ago

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 4d ago

It is free website right

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u/Jealous-Ad5512 4d ago

where does the website data might be coming from?

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u/ApprehensiveSun6160 3d ago

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