I am currently writing up my SOP for a PhD in Economics. I studied math and economics and college and I have been working for 4.5 years in financial services since graduation.
I have two main question:
1) How much should reiterate my educational courses in college? It's on my transcript and I have already mentioned a synopsis of the coursework I took. Am I being redundant by mentioning the tough courses I took. I wrote a senior thesis, I'll obviously mention that.
2) Since the career jobs I took after graduation are heavily economic modeling/quantitative finance oriented and add a lot of value in terms of modeling skills and programming skills. How much of the SOP should be focused on my academic how much on my work experience? I feel like the skills I received from my work experience do a better a job at expressing how qualified I am for the program. I had a high GPA in difficult math and econ courses but the same can be said about most applicants, so I was wondering that if the work experience is extremely relevant, maybe I should concentrate on that to distinguish myself.
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