My country, Iran, as a result of its relative isolation, especially from the West, has largely developed a technology of its own. I am very much engaged with the way that technology is always based on physics, the foundation of science. I want very much, however, to become a world-class physicist who is trained not just by the physics professors of my own country—many of whom are marvelous—but also the best of the West. I especially admire the research taking place at your un

I believe strongly that one should reach for the sky and this is why my central professional goal is to become a hard news reporter for a leading magazine like Foreign Policy, Newsweek, or Time. I see your Master’s program at XXU in Magazine Journalism, with your location at the heart of media empires, as the premier option for beginning my professional journey in journalism. I thrive on politics, religion, ethnic issues, and world as well as national news. I deeply respect t

I have grown up in Lebanon where life is hard for the majority of people, especially because of the prevalence of disease and a health care system that fails to address our ongoing health care crises. Both of my parents are doctors and this helped to sensitize me from a very young age concerning the suffering that surrounded me, especially insofar as many people died as a result of easily preventable disease. With my dad who is a neurosurgeon and my mom who is an ob/gyn, I am

I was raised in China until moving to the US at the age of 15. Consequently, I have the cultural sense and reason of the Chinese yet have adopted much of the culture of the West too. I see this as an asset to me in my desire to work towards the degree since I relate well to both worlds, East and West, and so can make people comfortable who are moving between these contrasting worlds. Chinese people regard hospitality to visitors as a duty and a pleasure. To put a visitor at t

I am a Thai National, born and raised in Bangkok, and I have been extremely fortunate in being able to pursue my studies in the United States. This has given me a valuable insight into the depth and quality of education in this country and convinced me to apply for my doctorate program at Columbia. I have been immersed in the field of electrical engineering from a very early age and I seemed destined to follow this path as a career. This commitment to and love of my subject h

I was something of a mathematical prodigy as a child in China and won several awards at provincial and national levels. Initially I decided that, as I was so good at math, I would study it and make a career in that field. However an interest in geoscience began to develop about the time that I had to make a choice of undergraduate major and so I came to study Geomatics Engineering for my bachelor degree. To be frank, I was slightly disappointed with my undergraduate program a

I hold a bachelor degree in Statistics and Computing and a Master’s in Information Systems. My goal now is to pursue a Ph.D. with the ultimate aim of becoming a teacher and researcher and at the University of Najran in my home country of Saudi Arabia, where I studied for my bachelor degree. I possessed boundless curiosity as a child about machines of all kinds and used to amuse and sometimes exasperate my father with questions about how things worked and how they might be imp

I am a graduate student at XXU and will finish my Master’s Degree in Mathematics in May of 2012. I am devoted to the idea of pursuing a lifetime career in statistics and hope to be accepted to the PHD Program in Statistics at the University of XXXX. With my undergraduate degree in economics, further studies on a graduate level in preparation for our program, and my professional experience to date, I feel that I have an excellent foundation for pursuing a doctoral degree in St

I am a 32-year-old Saudi Arabian man. I live in Jeddah which, after the capital, Riyadh, is Saudi Arabia’s number one city in terms of economic development. I look forward to having a full participation in the information needs and directions of that development. I have identified Management Information Systems as the area in which I would most like to focus my endeavors in an academic program, because I feel strongly that this would be the most effective way for me to contri

I am a United States soldier originally from Cape Verde. I am especially interested in undertaking graduate study because I would love the opportunity to devote myself professionally to research in geographic information systems. I am particularly intrigued with the prospect of using GIS in order to determine the optimal locations for major key infrastructures in the Developing World. I am not exactly sure why I find myself so keenly attracted to spatial analysis but it is my

A professional journalist from Pakistan, now 38 years old and the father of two children, I am making Canada my permanent home—in fact, my wife and children are already there getting settled in and building our new life. I am still in Prague running a bi-weekly talk show for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. I look forward to a complete immersion in your program into a critical analysis of the blood and treasure that Canada has spent since 911 in ‘my’ part of the world, Pakist

Letter of Reference for MBA Program To whom it may concern, I am proud to recommend Miss. XXXX as a candidate for the Master of Finance Program at Queen’s University. Miss XXXX joined us at XXXX Group Corporation in July of this year as Vice President of our Financial Investment Department. But I have known XXXX for about three years, back when she was working for an investment firm in Shanghai. She was an associate and worked as a liaison for a project proposed as a collabor

I am the culmination of many victories and great challenges along the way, growing up on the south side of Chicago. The perils of our neighborhood plight—violence, prostitution, and debilitating poverty—are vivid in my memory. Thus, I sought escape, salvation, from a world beyond my reality, in books. My love for reading began and even continues with my mother reading to me at times; she has done this ever since I was a baby. This helped my reading skills to flourish early on

Your world-class LLM Program in Corporate Governance & Practice at XXXX University is my first choice for further graduate study not only because of the prestige of your program, but primarily because I feel that I am the best fit for your program given my interests and experience. I seek a thoroughgoing immersion in the study of corporate governance and transactional legal practice, especially in the international arena. As an attorney from the Ukraine who has also completed

From my earliest years I loved puzzles and games involving the application of logic. It was a delight, at school, to discover that my skills had an application in computing. From my first lesson in the subject, I was ‘hooked’, it was work but it was also fun, an elusive combination to many in the world. I feel extremely fortunate to be in a position to be submitting this application to undertake further study in a subject that I love and that has the potential to do so much g

I qualified as a dentist in 2009 at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and am currently in my second year of study towards a higher degree in Dentistry. I commenced my career in general dentistry but I have developed a great interest in restorative dentistry and particularly implantology which I see as a particularly exciting field being relatively new and having enormous future potential as new techniques and materials become available. My goal is to complete your prestigiou

Hilda was an indigent patient who spoke only Spanish and so I was called in to translate. The news was bad and it was my duty to deliver the test results and the prognosis to her. Hilda had an inoperative brain malignancy. If the diagnosis had been made earlier, Hilda would almost certainly have survived. I felt helpless but this event fired in me a great wish to help people like Hilda and it turned a career choice into a vocation. As part of my extensive preparation for the

My family has no medical connection that I can trace nor can I claim an early longing to become a PA, nurse or doctor. In fact I was, until fairly recently, happy to be a dedicated and reasonably well rewarded ‘back room girl’ working as a Research Analyst. However, over the years, I have met people who provide ‘hands on’ care to others and have found myself envying the satisfaction that their work provides to so many of them. Recently, I have felt more and more drawn to such

My decision to apply to the postgraduate program in the University of XXXX Institute for Aerospace Studies is a culmination of my lifelong passion for aeronautics. I first fell in love with aeroplanes when I was five years old. Living in a house that was very close to an airport, I remember standing on the open roof under the scorching sun and waiting for the airplanes to pass overhead. Before I managed writing the alphabet properly, I had gained a sense about the differences

I was once asked “Who is your engineering hero?” and answered perfectly honestly that it is my father. My father ran an auto repair shed in South Vietnam; he repaired and serviced three wheel taxis and automobiles. People relied on my father to enable them to make a living and feed their children and he did all that he could to ‘keep them moving’. At the end of the Vietnam War, obtaining the most basic of materials or spare parts was either difficult or simply impossible. My

Two factors, in particular, account for my profound passion for professional growth in the area of special education and my decision to apply to your program. Foremost among these significant factors was the fact that I too was once in special education classes to overcome my disability to perform in the area of Mathematics. I am profoundly grateful to the excellent, caring, and extremely supportive special education teachers that I had. Without this extra support and accommo

I am very keen on outdoor pursuits especially hunting and fishing and, consequently, spend much of my spare time in rural Nevada pursuing these interests. I have come to love the wilder parts of Nevada and the local people who have an interesting view of life and a neighborliness that is heart-warming to a townsman such as me. As a Chiropractor, I have taken an interest in healthcare provision in these communities and learned, from locals, that it is relatively scarce and oft

Since I became a student pilot, flying has helped to better prepare me for medical emergencies as well as refining my ability to always stay cool and achieve efficiency through optimal communication. My first solo flight required immense preparation, which my father, a pilot of twenty-two years, was proud to provide. Long before that exhilarating day, he took me on my first flight when I was only a few weeks old. Seventeen years later, I was finally ready to pilot the plane

“Does anyone speak Polish?” The director of rehabilitation was concerned about a recently admitted Parkinson’s disease patient who was failing to take her medication and who was anxious and confused following her recent diagnosis and admission to the acute rehabilitation facility where I was a volunteer worker. Being a Polish speaker, I was able to communicate with the patient and to persuade her of the need to take her medication and undertake her rehabilitation exercises. S