স্টেইটমেন অব পারপস

আগের লিখাতে বলেছিলাম
যে USA-Canada তে এডমিশন
এবং ফান্ডিং এর ক্ষেত্রে Statement
of Purposes (SOP) বিশেষ
ভাবে গুরুত্ত্বপুর্ন। আজ স্টেটমেন্ট অফ
পারপাস সম্পর্কে বিস্তারিত বলব।
আমার সম্পুনর্ লিখাটি পড়ার
আগে আমি বলব নিচের
ভিডিওটি একবার দেখে নেওয়ার
জন্যে। ভিডিওতে University of
California এর K-12 and community initiative
এর Director, Yvette Gullatt স্টেটমেন্ট অফ
পারপাস নিয়ে খুব-ই গুরুত্বপুনর্ লেকচার
দিয়েছেন। তিনি Reveal করেছেন
যে ইউনিভাসির্টি অফ
ক্যলিফনর্িয়ার
শিক্ষকেরা স্টেটমেন্ট অফ পারপাস
কিভাবে ইভালুয়েট করে। স্টেটমেন্ট
অব
পারপাসে তারা কি দেখতে চায়।
আর সর্বপরি কিভাবে খুব
ভালো স্টেটমেন্ট অফ পারপাস
লিখা যাবে। আমেরিকান
ইউনিভসর্িটি এপ্লাই করার সময়
স্টেটমেন্ট অফ পারপাস লিখার
আগে এই ভিডিও আমার বেশ
কাজে লেগেছে।
যাহোক, এখন স্টেটমেন্ট অফ পারপাস
নিয়ে মুল লিখাতে আসি।
সংক্ষেপে আজকের লিখার মুল
কথা গুলি হল:
Ø Statement of Purposes (SOP)
আসলে কি জন্যে প্রয়োজন?
Ø Statement of Purposes (SOP)
আম্যাকে কি কি লিখতে হবে?
কিভাবে লিখতে হবে?
Ø এডমিশন কমিটি বা যারা আমার
SOP পড়বে তারা আমার SOP
নিয়ে কি করবে?
Ø SOP লিখার কলা-কৌশল কি হবে?
Ø কিভাবে নিজের SOP কে যাচাই
করা যেতে পারে?
Ø এডমিশন কমিটি আমার SOP
তে কি কি দেখতে চাইবে?
SOP কি জন্যে প্রয়োজন?
1. To know the student
2. Understand his or her accomplishments
(কোন সামাজিক কাজ
বা শিল্পকলায় পারদর্শিতা) in context
3. His achievements in context
4. His obstacle and challenges in context
5. It is an opportunity for the student to
provide information that supports and
augments the review process.
6. For the Applicant it is an opportunity to
Anticipate the Questions that we will have
in our mind and they can response them
approprietly in their SOP.
In SOP you have to tell about – (Not
necessarily that u have to have all, u can
have 1 or 2 is pretty okey)
1. Personal quality
2. Talent
3. Accomplishment
4. Contribution
5. Experiences
6. What this quality and accomplishment
makes u proud and how does it relate to the
person u are?
1. A good SOP will help the reader to know
and understand the student
2. With just the application documents alone
if there is not better understanding then the
Sop will help u to understand the applicant
better.
3. After reading SOP, it should be like that
the applicant is better that we thought with
the application documents alone.
4. SOP adds clarity , depth and meaning to
information collected in other parts of the
application
5. It doesn’t repeat the information that we
already have with the application
documents in the package.
6. It doesn’t give us a narrative form what
we already have in the Packages. It actually
contextualizes deep in that documents claim
7. It completes the application for
admission.
a) Some students say that what should be
the topic of SOP. The perfect topic and the
most unique topic of the SOP is that
completes the applications. SOP will help
the Application committee in a deeper level.
b) Actually a topic of SOP does not impress
the admission committee, the impression
comes from the understanding the student
in a deeper level.
c) Student should understand that the
application documents and SOP should talk
to each other. Each talk to the admission
committee and together they create a
dialogue. When it happens then an
admission reader have the sense that the
application is completed
d) It’s not enough to give us the problems
the students have; we want to see that the
students have achieved academically in
spite of his circumstances. If we don’t see
that the application and SOP are not in
dialogue in each other then they are not
complete.
e) Admission decision is never made based
on the content of the SOP alone.
f) According to University of California-
Barkley faculty “While it is acceptable to
receive feedback or helpful suggestion,
applicant personal statements should reflect
their own ideas and be written by them
alone.
The Admission committee and SOP reader,
what will they do with ur SOP?-
1. Firstly, they will search that SOP reflects
student’s own ideas.
2. What’s important to this applicant?
3. What qualities and characteristics define
this applicant?
4. Which of these qualities and
characteristics are most prominent?
5. What qualities appeal to reader? Why?
6. What is important to this applicant?
7. SOP is also read by Scholarship
committee, Donars, Faculty.
8. Your SOP should be readable within
couple of minutes, because the admission
reader will have only couple of minutes to
read ur SOP. (Usually it is about 2 minutes)
Writing strategies for SOP-
1. Gather information, grades , test score,
Extracurricular activities, works,
experiences, Achievements
2. Read the application critically using levels
of Q. > Brain storming > Drafting > Revising
( organization, Clarity& meaning) > proof
reading > Get feedback
3. Students should develop a topic in
response to the prompt (the given theme for
SOP). A thesis that will be a prompt.
4. Students should literally create their own
prompts (the Uni given prompt are broad,
Bcoz it is a genaralized prompt)
5. In SOP writing they should be narrow in
their topic writing. They should be
analytical and reflective as writings, apply
thoughtfulness and careful critics.
6. Write special circumstances (if any)
7. Read critically (means, read it as the
application committee will read it) and write
analytically
8. Writing SOP is same important as well as
to Reading. Students should read it as they
write.
9. Think like an admission reader,
Anticipate different kind of Q. > Mark
interpretation > Expectation > observation
10. Ans those in ur SOP in responses
11. Find reader who resembles the target
audiences
13. Try to questions themselves and ans
them. As the admission committee will may
arise in their mind. Students should find
those by asking themselves.
14. If university restrains any words limit
then your SOP should be within those
words limit.
15. Students should not write below 250
words
16. More is not better. (with in 1000 words)
Prompt # 1
1. Describe the world you come from (e.g.
your Family, your community, your
university, your research)
2. Tell us how your world has shaped your
dreams and aspirations.
3. Tell us about personal quality, talent,
accomplishment, contribution or experience
that is important to you. What about this
quality or accomplishment lakes you peoud
and how does it relate to the person you
are?
Who will may read your SOP:
1. University admission committee
2. Faculty (who makes decisions or provides
assistantship) of that university
3. University Scholarship committee
4. State funding authority (Who will provide
fund for that specified project)
5. Donors of your future PhD projects
So, what type of questions students should
put and answer to asses their SOP?-
Level-1 Q.
a) Facts
b) Where did the Uni student went?
c) What classes he took?
d) What lab he participated?
Ans of the Level -1 Q. are details in
paragraphs. These should have a place but
should not be the most central places
Level-2, Q.
a) Are interpretive, they are taken from the
parts of interpretation and makes the essay
such as students had a grade drop, he might
taken a job for some circumstances. The
student took job and we may thaink that the
job is more important to the studnt than the
school.
b) Students should ans those interpretation.
Here SOP is an opportunity to go deep
enough to support his side.
c) Ans to the L2 Q. are topic sentences of
paragraph, but not too much focused
paragraph.
Level-3, Q. Are Meaning and Significances
(they define the things of the application )
a) They go beyond the application to explain
why something maters?
b) Why this education is so important to
her? What he has done and what it matter?
c) It’s are deeper Q.s
In SOP students do mistakes as they have
lots of L1 Q, Few L2 Q and only 1 or 2 L3
Q.
But the main things is L3 Questions are the
main themes, them make the admission
committee satisfied
Usually these Q are put in SOP by the
admission committee-
1) What data do u find?
2) What pattern do you see?
3) What Q. would u ask?
4) What inferences would u draw?
5) How well does the essay align with the
academic profile?
· Have I talked about myself enough? Do u
have enough the sense of who I am, in the
context of my Family, Community, School
· There should be a balance between dreams
and aspirations ( the dreams and aspirations
doesn’t have to be very specific like this is
the major that I want) there something to
do like the student is inspire to help
community. It should not be like u will do
something like I will change the global
economy, rather u will use ur knowledge
and will try for it
· The cultural issues are really important
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থেকে ডাউনলোড করা SOP
কিংবা এডমিশন-ফান্ডিং প্রাপ্ত
কোন সিনিয়র বড ভাইয়ের SOP
নিয়ে হাল্কা এদিক- ওদিক
করে লিখে ইউনিভার্সিটিতে পাঠিয়ে কোন
কাজে দিবে না। স্টুডেন্টের
এডমিশন কিংবা ফান্ডিং-এ এই SOP
কোন হেল্প করবে না।
Regarding extracurricular Activities:
Some of the students think that they have to
have lots of extraordinary activities and
leadership activities to write in SOP. But it
may not happen for all.
Most of the Ivy league school admitted
students don't have too much extraordinary
extracurricular activities or leadership
activities. What an Ivy league student has
that is some creative and focused
extracurricular activities. It means that the
student really know what is he doing in his
leisure time, why is he doing this activities
and what future plan is associated with this
kind of activities.
Yes, this is such a simple.
Now, If you feel that you did not do some
thing extraordinary as extracurricular
activity or say you did not participated in
extracurricular activities at all in your
department while you were in
undergraduate level in university. So what
should you do now?
Well, just ask yourself that how you spent a
day. May be you just finish university and
go home and watch TV. Then describe this
in a different way that "every day after
finishing your university you maintained a
regular schedule to find out best creative-
entertaining work on tv with a hope that
one day you will excel in such works.
Try to highlight what you really are, but in
a constructive manner. Don't write
something that you really not, never lie...
When some junior student sent me their
SOP to review, In most cases I noticed that
they wrote something common (like
everyone was member of "Social
Responsibility Club", everyone arranged
cultural program etc.). A senior professor
working in admission pool is not a stupid or
fool, that he/she can't differentiate the truth
or fabricated statements. So always be
careful and truthful.