This is an SoP for admission to the graduate civil engineering program at Columbia University in the city of New York. A draft of the SoP is provided with the attached files. A screenshot from the university website of what the content of the SoP needs to be, my undergrad academic transcript (Architectural Engineering with structural focus), and my resume. I would also want to better communicate the parts in my draft SOP that indicate that I lived in multiple countries prior to being admitted to the US as a refugee and how that has helped shape my experience. I do NOT want them to dominate the essay but to be clear for the reader to understand this fact.
To clarify it for you, I am an Iraqi, I moved to the UAE when I was 11 y.o, from 2003-2017 (resident), then moved to Jordan from 2017- 2021 (refugee status), and now legally settled in the US since 2021.
