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latex template or example for personal statement

I am writing a personal statement in latex. I don't want the big margin at the top of the page not big title taking a lot of space. I just like to make the layout compact but still clearly spaced with title, name and other necessary information, since there may be restriction on the number of pages. One example would be http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/CIM/Documents/PS-Sample2_000.pdf . I wonder where to find some good latex templates or examples?

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• Not quite a programming question, but some might argue. –  Dmitri Nesteruk Commented Dec 27, 2009 at 19:31
• So far all latex questions have been accepted here ... –  Rook Commented Dec 27, 2009 at 22:15
• Meta on whether latex belongs or not: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7135/… and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12918/… –  dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Commented Dec 28, 2009 at 1:48
• The thing about the default margins in LaTeX, is that there were set with the best available usability data in mind. Generally, making you text wider will hurt the readability of your document. That makes less difference in a short blurb, but is worth keeping in mind (and yes, that means that the defaults for most word processors are erroneously wide...). To use more of the page, go to multiple columns. –  dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Commented Dec 28, 2009 at 1:52
• @dmckee: "available usability data" I don't think was in Lamport's vocabulary when he wrote latex. Mantra: latex is not a typesetting system, it is a document preparation system and that is good. The right choice of margin size gives us lots of space for scribbling margin comments, etc. Take a look at llncs.cls, to see what a journal thinks is good layout. –  Charles Stewart Commented Dec 28, 2009 at 9:28

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I would use the geometry package to establish the desired margins. To get the margins in your sample document, try:

Your next requirement was to fix the title block. LaTeX uses the internal command \@maketitle to format the title block. You can redefine this as you like. To achieve the same title block style as in the sample document, use:

The \@title , \@author , and \@date commands will print the title, author, and date. You can use whatever formatting commands you like to set the text in bold, different colors, etc.

Put all of the above commands in the preamble of the document. The preamble is the space between \documentclass and \begin{document} .

• Note that if you want to reduce margins, you may also want to reduce other tex/latex dimensions, most often the inter-paragraph space ( \parskip ), but possible also the dimensions governing layout of list environments, interline space (don't reduce this by much!), &c –  Charles Stewart Commented Dec 31, 2009 at 8:59
• That's true.. if you want the paragraphs to have no blank space between them, add \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} to your document after the \maketitle command. Also, you'll want to increase the indentation of the paragraph (since the lines are longer, the indentation needs to be more prominent). The command \setlength{\parindent}{2.5em} will do this. –  godbyk Commented Jan 1, 2010 at 18:59

Attempt #1: I've used the following style file, which I call cramp2e, for similar purposes. It is probably not right for you, but have a look:

Postscript This is for A4 size paper.

A slightly less LaTeX-ey solution would be to not use the \maketitle command. A couple of times I've simply used this as my title(marginsize helps too).

Set up smaller margins:

(EDIT: 1cm might be even better..) Minimal title:

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I'm looking for a professional LaTeX template for either a statement or purpose/personal statement/statement of intent/etc. for a general graduate application. Most of the ones I have seen thus far have been relatively plain, and while I don't need a template that is horribly visually abrasive, one with a bit more style wouldn't be bad. Are there any good repositories for essays of this nature or does anybody from the community have a particularly well-crafted template of this type?

• 7 As the director of a graduate program I can say that the format of your personal/academic statement is unlikely to have much influence on the admissions process. Focus on the content and why the program you're applying to is a good fit for your research interests, and make sure the prose is error free. Many universities have online applications so your statement may end up being plain unformatted text when it's read. –  Alan Munn Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 22:22

Had a similar issue myself when looking for CV templates. I came across this site, which was quite helpful and the .tex files are easily modifiable as most of the examples at the bottom of the page are using the letter class.

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/letters

• 1 This link is returning a 404 now, but I've located what I think might be a similar page at the same site: maths.ox.ac.uk/members/it/faqs/latex/letters –  Jonathan E. Landrum Commented May 30, 2018 at 14:40

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Nov 12, 2012, latex template for statement of purpose.

The SOP (Statement of Purpose) season is back! and I got requests from my friends to review and help them polish up their SOPs. I wanted to share my LaTeX template for SOP with them. Please feel free to use it.

• Sample SOP : sample.pdf
• Git Repository: https://bitbucket.org/soonhok/sop/src

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• It uses Adobe Caslon Pro font family. If you don’t have them, you cannot compile the SOP . For more information about the fonts, please visit here .

How to Compile

It uses xelatex to use custom fonts. After modifying the downloaded main.tex , type the following on the terminal:

I only tested it on OSX machines, you may have problems on other platforms such as Windows or Linux.

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