February 7, 2010

Application and S.O.P Madness

Statement of Purpose (S.O.P) is probably the most annoying thing in the graduate school application process. It is very important because it is your only opportunity to speak up for yourself. You have to structure your essay carefully and explain why you are the best and why you’re that awesome for the program and unfortunately you have to manage all of these in 500 words (or a bit more for some schools).

Hopefully, the application process is over and the only thing to do now is a long wait. I would like to thank to Suzan Uskudarli, Arman Aksoy, Sarp Centel, Duygu Ozpolat and Elif Surer for their help on my S.O.P.

I created a wordle cloud from my statement of purpose for Carnegie Mellon. The distribution of the topics seems fine ;) (click on the image to see larger version).

Note: Wordle is a powerful and fancy tool for creating word clouds. –> Wordle.net