Timeline for How important is the statement of purpose in a PhD application for admission to a top school in the US?
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:43 | comment | added | Roger Fan | @Kurt I'm sure that a school tied for the top econ PhD program (by US News) isn't doing too bad. I will also note that every academic economist that I know of assumes that top schools don't care about SOPs; that kind of consensus isn't born without reason. You can argue with the value of ignoring SOPs, but you can't argue with the fact that it is the current reality. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 3:27 | history | edited | webelo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2014 at 1:05 | comment | added | Yes | Yep, then good luck to this school's future :) | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:56 | comment | added | Roger Fan | @Kurt I talked to an admissions director at a top-10 econ PhD program recently, and he explicitly stated that (at his school) statements of purpose can never help you, it can only hurt you. I believe he recommended to keep it polished and generic absent extraordinary circumstances. Recommendation letters, research experience, classes taken, and grades are probably 95% of the decision at top schools. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 14:10 | comment | added | Yes | Thanks. But I believe that first-year course work is not sufficient to guarantee little-value on statement of purpose; could it be economists's "application" of "efficiency". I doubt the adequacy, and I believe the importance of statement of purpose. For otherwise one only admits a collection of scores. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 2:19 | history | edited | jakebeal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 1:29 | history | answered | webelo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |