Many people take recommendation letters from their bosses/managers. This can be a good idea, especially if your manager can vouch for your sincerity and technical prowess. The idea is to reflect that you remained committed to excellence at work, and came up with innovative ideas and results. Though academic recommendation letters are also very important, but if you have been working for 1 year or more - then taking a recommendation from your manager/tech lead would not be a bad idea. Here is an example of a sample recommendation letter written by a manager for a prospective candidate. This sample has been crafted from a real recommendation letter for a particular student. So the names of the people and the …

It was officially announced today that the US economy has been in recession since Dec., 2007. Although people already knew about the economic downturn, this was an official statement coming from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Many people believe that recession is defined by two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. But that is not correct. NBER looks into many factors such as labor markets, housing markets, retail and other sectors to decide the state of the economy. This also makes it one of the longest recessions since the great depression of the 1930s. However, one thing that is surprising is that even with the state of things as they are presently, many employers in the economy are …

Cornell has a good program in Operations Reseach. A lot of cutting edge research initiatives are being under taken there. If you are applying to this program, or similar operations research / management programs - this SOP might be of interest to you.
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Man’s insatiable thirst for knowledge forces him to explain every perceptible phenomenon. Man developed Science because it always begins by assuming that the world is inherently understandable and that we can learn how it works by observing it and by examining the processes that affect it. We are now entering an era in which new ideas and disciplines are helping …

Many times, it so happens that one would want to apply for more than 1 graduate program, at the same of different universities. At such a time, you need to have the skill to be able to market your skills in different ways to different people. The same achievement may go to prove your worth as a computer science professional, and you may have to use that to prove how you gain valuable domain knowledge (such as finance) through the same project. Basically, being able to present the same idea in more than one way to different people in your statement of purpose is what is required. Here is the perfect example of that happening. Below is the SOP - …