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  1. Unless you have too many things to brag about yourself, it is unavoidable to refer to the same event in your CV and SOP. But I think SOPs should contextualize your experiences by pointing out how it helps you reach your ultimate goal. It would be easier to digest if you connect all your experiences to your "purpose" so that admission committee will not be confused by, say, three distinct RA experiences you had and still not know why you were doing these at the end of the day. Such a unifying account is hard to present in a CV given its concise and discontinuous nature.
  2. I think the wording is good, but the contents are a little ambiguous. Beyond the second paragraph, there started to be some qualitative statements without specific facts and examples. A lot of phrases can be applied to all other students, making your LoR weak in its uniqueness. I believe the letter would be far more convincing if every description about you is backed by something you actually did and put in your CV and SOP. (I think you did this only for some of "your professor's evaluations") The strategy has two advantages. First, I assume that some specific experiences mentioned in your CV/SOP may not have hard evidence. Your professors' words, if consistent with your own description, can make your own documents more reliable and credible. However, please speak from a different perspective when talking about the same event in your LoR. Second, qualitative statements are subject to subjectivity. How "right" are your questions? How thorough is your research? You may want to simply put down some facts so that readers can judge the level of "rightness" and "thoroughness" themselves. For example, does your question refers to a problem unsolved or a phenomenon ignored in the literature? Does your research consider some important aspects that are most of the time abstracted from? If so, please put them down. Besides, stories are just much more intriguing and palatable compared to vague statements.
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