I can tell within two sentences whether an SOP was written by a person or a template. Most were written by the template.
- Kill the childhood origin story, nobody believes your passion for supply chain management started at age six - Swap adjectives for evidence: the project that kept you up till 3am, what broke, what worked - Open with the moment, not the biography, your childhood can sit this one out - Name one lab, one professor, one paper, praise of world-renowned faculty tells them nothing - Read it out loud, if it sounds like a brochure, it is a brochure
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