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I'm finally breaking out of my procrastination break and am starting to work on my SOP. I'm running into trouble finding the balance between coming off as an actual human being with interests outside of psychology and properly expressing my background and future goals.
How personal should an SOP be? It seems worth mentioning that it's not called a personal statement, but rather a statement of purpose, which makes me think it shouldn't be that personal (i.e. focused on non professional information) at all.
After googling 'sample clinical psychology SOP's' I found one that opens with the author's childhood affinity towards horses and another that opens with "When I came to college I wanted to be a doctor." < not my idea of strong openings, but I'm not on any admissions committees, so what do I know?
How personal should an SOP be? It seems worth mentioning that it's not called a personal statement, but rather a statement of purpose, which makes me think it shouldn't be that personal (i.e. focused on non professional information) at all.
After googling 'sample clinical psychology SOP's' I found one that opens with the author's childhood affinity towards horses and another that opens with "When I came to college I wanted to be a doctor." < not my idea of strong openings, but I'm not on any admissions committees, so what do I know?
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