The application for studying in the United States is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, financial project, a new round of application season, has come, although always ready, but always feel that the time is still early. But to be foolproof, do not give yourself regrets, we, at least, need to set aside a year's time to make plans. Here's what I've shared, how about a smooth application to study in the US? I hope it can help everyone!
First, the application in the preparation
First of all, AdmitWrite has always been to serve students for the purpose of high-precision is the most basic requirements of our tutors, the agency's tutors are basically graduated from the world's top institutions, such as the UK's G5, the United States of America's TOP 30, Ivy League schools, etc., tutors have both a wealth of The first thing you need to know is that you have a lot of experience in studying abroad, and you also have excellent ability and experience.
Secondly, the tutor's specialty must be the same as the applicant's specialty. The first thing you need to do is to ask a tutor who specializes in finance to help a student who specializes in computer science, and you'll get the same result. In my opinion, this is undoubtedly a mistake in the future, so the professional things or to professional tutors to, when the AdmitWrite team of mainstream U.S. UK programs have the same professional tutor support.
Then, if you're not satisfied, you can always change your tutor. If you think the assigned tutor is not quite right for you, AdmitWrite will unconditionally support you to change your tutor at any time, which is honestly very rare, because in the traditional intermediary, we all want to change a consultant is not a light thing, not to mention that we are such a high-precision, sharp team of study abroad tutors. However, AdmitWrite can really guarantee that in all the years, AdmitWrite will screen out more than 500 excellent and stable online tutors from 3,000 international students, and evaluate and change them regularly, so as to effectively guarantee the quality and level of service.
Then, the assessment and replacement of tutors are decided by students. Whether your tutor has attitude problems or ability problems, we will deal with them realistically and purposefully in order to ensure your counseling experience, and you can give us feedback and complaints through multiple channels.
Finally, the price of AdmitWrite's semi-DIY services is only half of that of traditional agencies, and at a price of almost 20,000 RMB, we can provide you with professional and cost-effective services to solve all your study abroad problems. AdmitWrite seldom advertises, because we are an Internet platform, using the online advantage, the cost is compressed to the extreme, because of the high cost-effective so the last few years to find AdmitWrite to do the consultation of the students will be more and more.
Well, the knowledge of study abroad agent can be popular here, the specific need for what model or look at the actual situation and demand, suitable for their own is the best, the following we continue to the main topic.
The two most difficult parts of the application is the choice of school and paperwork, which is the most critical and time-consuming, it is recommended that we try to prepare a few months in advance, most of the people are in May and June to start preparing.
Second, choose a school
For the part of the students who chose the right institutions and agents, the selection of schools will undoubtedly take a lot of detours, but for the DIY students is a different situation. DIY students choose a school is the difficulty of the information in the Internet big data boom, on the one hand, useful information is too scarce, on the other hand, useless information, and the information is not available. Nowadays, with the boom of big data on the Internet, useful information is too scarce on the one hand, and useless or inferior information is too abundant on the other hand, which makes it more difficult for us to collect information. In fact, if we can find an international student's elder brother or sister who is willing to share their own study abroad experience and evaluation is more than good, the value of the information they give us is something we can't get elsewhere, in fact, unless you are particularly lucky, it's still very difficult to find a senior like this. There may be some knowledge about choosing a school in places like Zhihu and posting, but a lot of it is generalized and not much of it is targeted. The most important thing is to combine the actual situation of their own to make a choice, take other people's experience in their own body is not desirable, the choice of school is related to our future life and employment issues, so how to avoid risk, how to choose the right cost-effective program is a university question. So what are the main factors to consider when choosing a school? To put it bluntly, we spend so much human, material and financial resources is to study and work, and the factors closely related to study and employment include ranking, geographic location, tuition fees, scholarships and grants, and so on, which are very important.
Let's talk about rankings.
When choosing a school, the first thing that comes to mind for most students is the rankings, with undergraduate rankings and graduate school rankings being the most important. The undergraduate rankings mainly reflect the undergraduate level of the relevant institutions, including undergraduate academic reputation, the freshman rate, faculty, students, financial situation, graduation rate, alumni donation rate, etc., from which you can see the undergraduate rankings with the relationship between graduate school? Anyway, I don't really see it. In fact, undergraduate rankings can only represent a school's undergraduate level, and a school's undergraduate level is not representative of its graduate level or a master's degree program, so a school's graduate level needs to be treated differently, and the most important thing we can refer to about the graduate level is the professional rankings, and the professional rankings can provide us with more valuable information.
One more thing, different colleges have different ranking indicators, in addition to the ranking, the QS ranking and ARWU ranking also has a certain reference value, each of the three have their own focus, interested students can go to study. Professional rankings have reference value but their value is not as important as we think, after all, it is not only the ranking that affects our choice. For master's applicants, employment is the most important thing, compared to the ranking and reputation of the college is more important, but if you plan to study PhD, you should still focus on the ranking of the sub-specialty. However, if you plan to pursue a PhD, you should still focus on the ranking of your program. Then, you should refer to the ranking in relation to your plan after graduation. If you plan to return to China for employment after graduation, you should refer to the ranking of your undergraduate program and the overall ranking of the college, because the reputation of the school is still very important to domestic recruiters. If you want to stay in the U.S. after graduation, it's best to refer to both the college rankings and the rankings of the sub-specialties.
What role does location play in our selection of schools?
I believe that many of the goals of studying in the United States is to stay in the United States to work, because the United States industrial cluster effect is very obvious, the geographical location is directly related to our future employment, the study of the major and the school is located in the geographic location of the school is also closely related to the so when choosing a school geographic location is also critical.
The U.S. industry-academia-research-business system is quite developed, and the more sought-after employment areas are as follows:
California: Silicon Valley is located here, which is the kingdom of the electronics industry and the computer industry, and gathers a large number of famous schools such as the University of California system, Stanford University, California Polytechnic State University, and Intel?
New York: Recognized as the capital of the world, New York exerts great global influence in business and finance. Concentrating the essence of the world's financial, securities, futures and insurance industries, the region has Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University and a host of other prestigious schools, is the financial accounting and other professional employment mecca.
Boston-New York-Philadelphia connected to the Northeast region: a collection of eight Ivy League schools and the famous MIT and other regional economy to finance, media, biology, chemistry, medicine, etc., but also a lot of international students heart good.
The Great Lakes region: excellent and strong engineering programs, where there is the world-famous Motor City Detroit, highly sophisticated aerospace engineering, biotechnology companies, etc. Engineering talent can consider North Carolina and the Austin-Dallas region of Texas.
In addition to being closely related to our choice of schools and employment, geographic location also affects our lives, such as climate, some students may be allergic to the climate, and this point should be taken into account when choosing a school. In addition, the experience of living in a big city and a small city is not the same, the big city is lively and noisy, convenient transportation, rich in spare time, employment and part-time opportunities, but the rent and high cost of living, the small city is quiet, suitable for learning, the cost of living is low, but inconvenient transportation, life is a single, the choice of a big city or a small city should be combined with the personal habits and preferences.
Third, the need for materials
The paperwork is one of the main focus of the application, but also one of the difficulties of the application, usually speaking to apply for the U.S. master's program need to prepare the paperwork materials are PS/SOP, CV, RL, portfolio, writing sample, etc., which is mainly for art programs. The main portfolio is mainly art majors need to prepare, there may be some majors also require writing sample material, the specific need to prepare what material you can go to the official website of the application program to confirm.
(1) PS (personal statement) personal statement & SOP (statement of purpose) statement of purpose
PS (personal statement) personal statement and SOP (statement of purpose) statement of purpose is the most critical part of the instrument. The most critical part of the preparation of PS and SOP is also a university question, some programs only require PS, some programs only require SOP, while some programs require PS and SOP are indispensable, the specific program you are applying for how the requirements or should be based on official requirements.
PS (personal statement) personal statement and SOP (statement of purpose) statement of purpose, what are the similarities and differences, and what are the rules when writing? As the name suggests, the personal statement that the statement of our personal situation, the statement of purpose that the statement of our purpose to study abroad, the content of the personal statement mainly includes my qualities, personality, experience, family situation, economic situation, etc., the content of the statement of purpose mainly includes our professional goals, professional experience and professional planning, etc., from the form of the personal statement is not confined to a pattern, and the statement of purpose format is more rigorous. The requirements are more rigorous. A lot of students in the preparation of PS (personal statement) personal statement and SOP (statement of purpose) statement of purpose is accustomed to refer to the online model, but I do not know if you have found that the online statement model is more biased statement of purpose, especially when I write a personal statement is easy to be biased, this problem please pay attention to.
(2) CV/resume
Preparation CV and resume is also very critical, some programs only require CV, some programs only require resume, the specific program you are applying for how to request or should be based on the official requirements.
Resume is mainly about the project we are applying for, and the project's relationship is closer, its content involves our personal learning experience and scientific research capabilities, which contains a number of personal highlights, equivalent to our Chinese CV, usually speaking Resume is short and concise, its length is usually one page, the font size of the 9,10,11 The main character is 9, 10, 11.
In addition, in the preparation of CV and resume, there are some small details to pay attention to, if the personal photo, gender, date of birth and other information will be put in the appearance of less professional, as well as personal highlights, such as what we have said how to highlight the GPA trend, etc., these small details are very important, and it is recommended that we find a professional after the writing of a good gatekeeper.
We also have to tell you that if the data review to the CV or resume stage, from the side of the GPA, GT and other achievements have been passed, if the CV or resume also pass, prove that we are only one step away from the offer, good, continue to work hard Oh!
(3) RL recommendation letter
Almost all colleges and universities will have RL recommendation letter requirements, usually 2-3, want to make their own recommendation letter more persuasive the best choice of different types of recommenders, do not be uniform, such as choosing the recommender can be lecturing professors, internships during the leadership, or with the project related to the industry elite, and so on, of course, the premise is this
In addition, when looking for a recommender, I suggest trying to find a suitable recommender who is familiar with you, rather than forcing those who have various high official titles. In fact, when looking for a recommender, many people tend to look for their own lecturers, but the university lecturers tend to communicate with students very limited time, there may be a little more communication, but the effect is still very limited, and even a lot of professors can not name the student's name, these recommenders in addition to the name on the letter of recommendation other than what can not be done, the letter of recommendation is generally completed by the applicant themselves, in order to modify the The letter of recommendation is generally completed by the applicant himself, in order to modify a lot of applicants have to make up, or some applicants directly to the whole package to the agent or intermediary, so the level of the letter of recommendation written out of the varying.