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Writing A Scholarship-Awarding Motivation Letter

Fakrul Islam Tushar
6 min readDec 26, 2020

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A guide to writing a MOL/SOP

Motivation Letter or Statement of Purpose is one of the most asked documents whenever applying for any admission and scholarship.
In many cases, it’s the most important part of the application which could award you a scholarship/admission as the majority of the people applying for scholarships may have the same profile in terms of grades, LOR, and co-curriculum activities.

I had the pleasure to apply and be awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Medical Imaging and Applications (MAIA), fully funded by the European Union. Since then I have frequently asked to guide or provide tips regarding writing MOL/SOP. So I think let’s discuss My Erasmus SOP and What was my mindset that time writing my MOL.

  • *Important Note: Just before starting, See motivation letter is always your thing, My motivation letter reflects me as an applicant, it shows my points or the points that are most important to me to show the admission committee that I am the best fit for the program, but maybe these points do not apply to you. Please read this Blog as a guide or seeing a Scholarship-awarding SOP standard but not be fOOl and copy it line by line, that will only reduce your chance of acceptance.

A guide to writing a MOL

In the picture below I have shown the sections in my MOL

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Fakrul Islam Tushar
Fakrul Islam Tushar

Written by Fakrul Islam Tushar

Ph.D. Student at Duke University |Research Assistant at Center for Virtual Imaging Trials (CVIT)

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