[Assam] Courage and research- Statement of purpose - Harvard

[umesh sharma]

I was discussing study abroad and grad school admissions with a student of mine on the other side of the globe in New Zealand, and with another seeking Harvard MBA admissions - he requested to see my SOP - Statement of purpose.  Here is the entire SOP with the email header.
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/entry.php?u=jaipurschool&e_id=1968

Some might like it - esp those planning to apply for college admissions this year - 2008. The process of writing the SOP and knowing yourself better is the key thing.

Umesh

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:57:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
To: assam at pikespeak.uccs.edu
Subject: [Assam] Courage and research- Statement of purpose - Harvard

 Hi,
  
 I switched on my mobile yesterday evening - after a week. 
 Was caught in the quagmire of admission applications. www.grebible.com  says that the Statment of Purpose (SOP) must be unique --andnot a much revised and improved. 
 It perhaps should contain gems of info which show the very core of your individuality --and thus u must now get busy with the ultimate philosophical question --who am I and why I am doing what I am doing ; and what do I want to do in future. Such thoughts cannot come in a fast food joint among hippy crowds. It says that this process will also help u know yoursel better.
 Well it took me nearly a month to get 1500 words onmyself (as required by Harvard) and then I applied to Univ. of California-Berkeley on 12th. 
 Research and courage: 
 Now i leanrt that Harvard expects to know more about the research topic from doctoral candidates so I added some more to my SOP -and deleted some.
 A jump from BA+MBA to doctoral degree requiered great amount of courage but I had no choice --MEd guys get no schol --and ofcourse I would love to have Doc. written before my name. 
 I had absolutely no idea about how to identify research topics for DEd --but my background of economics and MBA has lot of info on surveys, census and statistcial analysis and research - so I decided to just list out what I want to really know -maybe someone would be interested -and there were 3 guys in Harvard who were doing similar work --so lets see.
  
 Check out my SOP -no point on criticising it -since I've already sent it on the 13th .
  
 Don't try to copy it -becos surely your life cannot be as topsy turvy as mine!!
 Is it?
  
 Umesh 
  


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Umesh Sharma

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




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