Open-sourcing my graduate admissions package to hopefully help make the process a little bit less intimidating and opaque (but mostly for the latex template tbh).
- Accepted to 3/6 programs
- All programs Canadian
- All offers funded to varying degrees
- I think UBC offered less than minimum wage lol
- Interviewed for UofT (MSc), MILA 3x (different professors)
- COVID made this process super fun right there at the end
- Accepted offer from Professor Reihaneh Rabbany at MILA
95% of the content for each SOP was the same; I setup a template to change the name of the school in the first paragraph as well as insert a personalized conclusion as the final paragraph. To change the school:
FLDR=SOP/templates/$SCHOOL
mkdir FLDR; touch $FLDR/info.tex $FLDR/professors.texThen change SOP/main.tex:53 to whatever you used as $SCHOOL.
I've included content for the school I chose, MILA, which includes content for the aforementioned files as well as the compiled PDF output.
| School | Applied | Official Notification | Admitted |
|---|---|---|---|
| UofT (MSc) | 12/09/2019 | 03/31/2020 | ❌ |
| UofT (MSASc) | 12/09/2019 | 03/30/2020 | ❌ |
| UBC | 12/15/2019 | 04/28/2020 | ✅ |
| MILA (McGill) | 12/28/2019 | 03/26/2020 | ✅ |
| Carleton | 01/06/2020 | 01/31/2020 | ✅ |
| SFU | 01/05/2020 | 05/12/2020 | ❌ |