Why do you want to pursue a PhD? How will this degree help you to achieve your career goals?
Why do you want to pursue a PhD at University of Arizona, specifically?
How have your identities and past experiences shaped your academic interests and prepared you for graduate school? This might include discussing some or all of the following:
How have your cultural, geographical, financial, and/or educational backgrounds and experiences presented opportunities and/or challenges for you?
How have these backgrounds and experiences motivated you to pursue a PhD, and how might they help you succeed in our program?
If you have written a senior or master’s thesis or conducted some other major independent or collaborative research project, how did that experience influence your PhD goals?
Do you have experience as a research and/or teaching assistant?
Did you work in a position that made you want to explore some process more deeply?
I will upload some of my information to the file; also, some of the work I have done to the file too. Let me know if there is any questions.