SoP Draft
I'm applying for a Masters Degree in Mathematics. I want some critiques on my SoP.
I haven't seen the prompts for the colleges I'm applying to. I figure I could at least start off with a generic SoP and fix it to fit any prompts I find.
I'm at about 340 words, and I'm asking for help on what I should add or leave out. I also tend to ramble and use more words than I need, so I'll need help on that.
I am applying to study for a Master's of Science in Mathematics. Math is the art of problem solving. It can give us solid answers, and where it can't give us answers, it can give us a glimpse on what would happen if we chose one answer over another.
There's a show on television called "Futurama." In one episode, "The Prisoner of Benda", Professor Farnsworth and Amy build a machine that switches the minds of two humanoid beings. There was one problem: after two entities switched minds, the physical bodies could not switch minds again. The characters switched minds with other people, hoping to get everyone's minds back into their respective bodies through sheer luck, until a pair of Globetrotters, using group theory, proved that, if you introduce two beings who have not switched their minds with anybody, you could put everyone's mind back into their original body.
This is what Math does. It takes a problem and allows you to work through an answer. Whether its guessing the probability of reactions, ensuring a building remains standing in bad weather, or determining what to charge for a book written by a midlist author, Mathematics is there. Even when it can't, because the results are random, Math can give us a good guess of what each choice can do for us and allow us to understand the problem.
In high school, I took the American Mathematics Competition tests. The nature of the AMC tests is to set out very difficult Math problems. I've taken the AMC-10 once and the AMC-12 three times. The first time I took the AMC-12 was the only time I scored below 100 on this test, and each time I scored above 100, I received the School Winner award for top score.
In 2002, Dr. Grigoriy Perelman resolved the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most difficult problems in Mathematics. I want to work on problems like these. I want to teach others how to work with these problems. I want to write books about these problems.
I haven't seen the prompts for the colleges I'm applying to. I figure I could at least start off with a generic SoP and fix it to fit any prompts I find.
I'm at about 340 words, and I'm asking for help on what I should add or leave out. I also tend to ramble and use more words than I need, so I'll need help on that.
I am applying to study for a Master's of Science in Mathematics. Math is the art of problem solving. It can give us solid answers, and where it can't give us answers, it can give us a glimpse on what would happen if we chose one answer over another.
There's a show on television called "Futurama." In one episode, "The Prisoner of Benda", Professor Farnsworth and Amy build a machine that switches the minds of two humanoid beings. There was one problem: after two entities switched minds, the physical bodies could not switch minds again. The characters switched minds with other people, hoping to get everyone's minds back into their respective bodies through sheer luck, until a pair of Globetrotters, using group theory, proved that, if you introduce two beings who have not switched their minds with anybody, you could put everyone's mind back into their original body.
This is what Math does. It takes a problem and allows you to work through an answer. Whether its guessing the probability of reactions, ensuring a building remains standing in bad weather, or determining what to charge for a book written by a midlist author, Mathematics is there. Even when it can't, because the results are random, Math can give us a good guess of what each choice can do for us and allow us to understand the problem.
In high school, I took the American Mathematics Competition tests. The nature of the AMC tests is to set out very difficult Math problems. I've taken the AMC-10 once and the AMC-12 three times. The first time I took the AMC-12 was the only time I scored below 100 on this test, and each time I scored above 100, I received the School Winner award for top score.
In 2002, Dr. Grigoriy Perelman resolved the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most difficult problems in Mathematics. I want to work on problems like these. I want to teach others how to work with these problems. I want to write books about these problems.