Quara上看到的2k赞美帝教授SOP写作观点分享

答案链接：https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-points-to-be-covered-in-a-statement-of-purpose-for-applying-for-graduate-school/answer/Ben-Y-Zhao?srid=h5FYT


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Interesting answers.

Let me add a different point of view.  I've been a professor for 10 years, and have looked through hundreds of SOPs every year as part of grad admissions for our CS department.  

OK, this is going to be slightly disappointing to some of you, but at least my personal view is that, with the exception of a couple of points which I'll mention below, in general, the SOP just doesn't matter.  You have to realize we admissions committees look through hundreds of these. So everyone will have some version of "I found my first PC when I was 4 years old and fell in love..." story.  It's cool, and it means a lot to many of the applicants, but it doesn't do much to help their case for why THEY should be admitted over the other hundreds of students in the pool.  So yes, do NOT make grammatical errors, do not say inane things that reflect *negatively*.  But beyond that, most SOPs will do little to hurt or help your application.

Now let me get to the exceptions. Yes, there are ways to stand out amongst the piles and piles of applications and make a faculty member remember you. How?  Simple: talk research.  The best way to convince the admissions committee you're ready for a phd is to talk research. Tell us your ideas, what's your vision for your area, what big inevitable trends do you see in the future, and how do you capitalize on them? What are hard problems you've already tried to tackle, and how did you succeed/fail?  This is where an applicant can show that they have the clarity of thought to think hard about a real problem, and show the reasoning skills (and intuition for identifying tricky or interesting problems).

I'm always excited by the rare applicant who clearly has thought through a research area, and has some ideas and real thoughts about problems he/she wants to tackle. It's fine if the ideas are not likely to succeed, or if the thoughts are not realistic for current research. What matters is that the student showed their logical reasoning skills, and their passion for research at the same time.
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个人觉得蛮有说服力，和大家分享一下，也欢迎大家表达自己的想法~

无知少女 发表于 2017-8-11 10:28
这个回答应该是针对phd的~所以重点在research
对于没有什么科研经历，还要转cs，想读个master出来工作的我 ...

嗯嗯有道理，我再找找有没有针对master的答案吧～

这个回答应该是针对phd的~所以重点在research
对于没有什么科研经历，还要转cs，想读个master出来工作的我不知如何是好了 2333

很有道理！要展示自己对这一领域独到的看法才能吸引教授。谢谢楼主分享！

多谢分享，有了新的角度~

感觉以前的sop ps 写偏了怎么办，都没花时间在读论文上

写得不错，但感觉提到的内容，除了不要讲太popular的故事以外，其实现在大部分applicants都已经做到了吧

enriquehong 发表于 2018-1-1 19:12
写得不错，但感觉提到的内容，除了不要讲太popular的故事以外，其实现在大部分applicants都已经做到了吧

我也觉得那些吊中介肯定也是这么写的