申请master的SOP到底要不要具体写对某个professor的research感兴趣？

cher09 发表于 2014-12-8 18:52
楼主是找谁改的，是找认识的国外的老师改的吗？

是找一个在米国读PHD的学姐改的，，，现在已经工作了。。。

七七要加油 发表于 2014-12-8 18:04
她是这样说的：你申请的是这一所学校不是光就这个老师。你只写对他的兴趣，能不能让他招你这个不好说，但 ...

小秘和委员会共同审材料吗？
那不多给小秘邮件，留下好印象很重要？

HappyZhou 发表于 2014-12-8 19:36
小秘和委员会共同审材料吗？
那不多给小秘邮件，留下好印象很重要？

小蜜应该也没用吧。。。。。话说委员会成员在哪找？

我觉得申请ms只用写一个大概的方向，毕竟MS主要还是上课。。。还有就是在ps中自己的一些经历就可以反映自己与某个老师的match度啦，，，我觉得。。。我是2015fall MS，之前向至少10个老师发了邮件，基本上没有结果（回邮件的也是说不招生），所以若在ps中点名教授，倘若不是那么迫切地想要去那个group，没有太大的必要，以上小弟个人拙见。。

顶楼上……贴个我之前在quora看的回答
The professor I mentioned in my SOP left. What can I do?

If it is an application to a university in the United States, it doesn't matter. The Statement of Purpose, if at all used, is used to gauge your research interests and what kind of projects you have and would be interested in. So mentioning a professor and his lab indirectly says that you'd be interested in working in so and so area, under someone who does similar work.

The Statement of Purpose is simply used to understand your interests better and it doesn't make or break your application. In most universities the admissions committee makes all the decisions and the professor(s) you mention in the statement of purpose will most likely never get to see your application.

The future of the lab is an entirely different question. A Masters program especially in engineering, is more like an extension to the bachelors and is all about taking advanced courses. Even if the professor and the lab existed, there is no guarantee that you would end up working under him in that lab. So there is little point in fretting about this situation.

If you're accepted to this university, you should make a call on accepting based on whether you still like the university and would love to take courses there because of the other professors.

If your end goal is a PhD in the same university and it entirely depended on the said Professor being there, then you should have second thoughts and could look for a better university. Even that is not a wise thing to do as there is no guarantee that the professor would have take you into his group. You could end up get a better advisor as well.

Good luck.


总之……还是那句话……好多老外（最起码quora上的那群）对SOP真是一点都不上心……楼主不用太在意……