ByGradPilot🎓

The Largest Open Database of University Admission Essays

Find Common App essays, Statements of Purpose (SOP), PhD essays and more — curated from publicly shared success stories and direct contributions from students who want to help others. Each essay includes proper attribution to inspire your own application journey.

Properly Attributed
Success Stories
Free Resource

Johns Hopkins

Phd, NLP

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Krithika Ramesh)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

University of Washington

Phd, NLP, ML

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Ofir Press)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Carnegie Mellon University

Phd, Theory, Cryptography, Security

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Quang Dao)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

University of Oxford

Phd, CV, ML, HCI, Medical Imaging

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Jayroop Ramesh)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Stanford University

Phd, PL, Systems

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Daneshvar Amrollahi)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Cornell

Phd ML, Responsible AI

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Rajiv Movva)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0