Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Five tips to get through the way of application for United States schools

【-Feature 】 study experts indicated that, because of Western education system and a significant difference, long-term-oriented education, the formation of negative influence of the Chinese students in time ideas, creativity, teamwork, and so did not prevail, and foreign education systems, little is known about these shortcomings and defects, seriously hindered the famous road of the students.

Select school specialty talk about "strategy"

United States schools for schools and professional for different, often require students to have high competence and independence. The applicant must, in accordance with their condition and ability to enter the best fit their own schools, not only the school's teachers and hardware facilities, but also according to the interests of the professional choice for them to determine their career direction, you need to consider region environmental climate and living habits, etc.

Professor at the University of Wisconsin, United States school learning atmosphere and competitive environment, pressures, and this requires students to give their exact location, self-assessment too high will waste a lot of energy resources, self estimation is too low will lose access to good learning postgraduate opportunities.

Expert advice

You can choose according to their own College

Colombia University Professor, Colombia University undergraduate colleges mainly include arts, College of engineering and subsidiary Barnard College for women. Due to the nature of each school, taking different difficulty. 2009 Colombia University of Arts and science's acceptance rate of just 7.9%, Engineering College acceptance rate is 23%, and Barnard College for women's acceptance rate is more than 34%.

Students can choose a different school for different circumstances. For example, Columbia Arts take one-to-one mentoring system, take very difficult, in the second only to Harvard University in the United States, its creation of core curriculum requires students to read through the English original works of Western civilization, the daily reading of the 200 + page, mainly students of the humanities and critical spirit, thus taken are in performance, potential, comprehensive quality aspects are very excellent student; if the students think of Arts and Science degree of difficulty is too large, you can consider all aspects of the Faculty of Engineering; General conditions, and want to go to Columbia students, you may want to consider Barnard College for women, for difficult small and can accept an equivalent education.

Materials to color

Application materials are students to school impressed a manifestation, which requires applicants to writing, grasp the overall structure, but also to highlight its own characteristics, the key to highlight the special circumstances of the individual and with others from different places, such as whether the dominant, specialty and participate in some activities, both in and out of school. Write the material must not have not enough perfectionism, otherwise seem real, but it cannot be the same, the hands of the cliche, which is often said to "color". May be a trifle, but real, touching also reflect the candidates ' language skills, and quality, the ideal vision.

Expert advice

Avoid the real big talk materials

Dartmouth College Professor, said the United States and China's education and training there is a big difference. For talent, China stressed the "before", and the United States is focused on the "people", the United States schools require students to not only to people, but also is a good man, a greater focus on individual quality training. Therefore, in the application materials should be focused in the main expression of who you are, what has been done and the future life planning, application materials should have unique flash point. In addition, we do not provide false information, or you'll become a life.

For this year's Beijing year.we Lee Talbot was 11 United States famous rejection, Colombia University Professor, said that this was a normal thing, Lee Talbot refusal does not mean he is not good, can only say that he is not fit for United States school admission standards, application materials ready. United States schools increased focus on quality, leadership and potential Chinese college entrance and is not a comprehensive quality assessment, at the entrance has a chance, once the exam does not demonstrate that he has reached the United States of prestigious admission standards, Lee Talbot's application materials did not properly reflect a student's comprehensive quality, leadership and potential, in the application is too perfect, no "color". In the application if you want to use a middle-school students to reflect your own personalized, avoid the real, big talk.

Recommendation should be authentic

For United States universities, the recommendation on the role of application materials to be ignored. United States universities very important recommendation, in the United States this attached great importance to personal credit country, it can be said that the referee is to their credit to the United States schools for the purpose of the recommendation, the recommendation is to use real examples from the side of restoring a true himself, according to the recommended person on the applicant's description from the side validation of the applicant's overall ability to deepen their understanding of the applicant's overall perception, get a more objective evaluation.

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