Overseas study suggestions

1. Stick to DIY, and finding an intermediary is definitely a permanent task. An intermediary usually serves as a student every week. Every week, the student's materials are sent away and the next student will be made in the next week, so that all the customer's information can be completed throughout the study season. However, this means that you only have one week of effort in their hands. If you are DIY, you will spend the entire three or four months studying abroad, you have enough time and thought to read a large number of relevant experience and documents, ask a large number of professionals to carefully modify their own materials, and learn from each other. Many people handed in 30 thousand pieces of intermediary services to help write two recommendation letters and one PS, but they still have no special features, n many friends once again wrote an article. Looking for an intermediary is easy to figure and the results are more troublesome. Maybe it is easy for a new applicant to be confused by the appearance of an intermediary consultant who seems to be the first and well-informed. They think they are very authoritative, but believe me, if you do it yourself, you will find that the accumulation of information is very fast. You will be more authoritative than a set of applications. However, their so-called positioning technology is also quite rough. Generally, I ask you about GPA and GT, and none of them care about it or help you. At that time, I was told that they could only apply for 50-schools, as a result, I did it myself and finally got the first 20 candidates. Another friend of mine, who paid an intermediary for 30 thousand yuan and bought three instruments, never took care of her again, finally, she angrily told me that she would rather not have a school to ask her this year, so she could refund the money... .. To do this, isn't it a lifetime delay?

 

2. Academic competence. The reason why the professor wants to accept you is that they don't really care about you because of your high TOEFL performance, or because of the hype of your Ps writing, but your academic ability. Academic competence! Do you think the professor will really be interested in your history of the Fight Against Leukemia? Do you think the professor will be interested in your ability to sing, dance, and be humorous? Versatile and extensive interests are helpful for university admission, but the graduate school still highlights its professional competence. The professor is looking for students who can help them do things, participate in their research, understand their academic achievements, follow them on the road, or at least look at their academic potential, cultivate people in the same path. Therefore, the topic of these four words must be highlighted throughout the entire application. During the university, I participated in some professional projects, received some professional awards, published some papers, and wrote some professional articles, participate in relevant authoritative organizations, activities, and so on. These things are of interest to professors. If you feel that you are not competent enough to read professional books and academic papers in the application, it will never be too late if you take action.

3. The application is not difficult, but it is trivial. You will spend much more time than your budget.

4. Since we are an undergraduate student, we don't need to compare it with the talented people who have been working for several years or domestic doctoral students with a strong academic background. We only need to do better than most undergraduates.

5. register a dedicated and authoritative email address (political stability is required. Do not leave the Chinese market without moving it; otherwise, it will be useless to cry at that time). Do not use it for other registrations, otherwise, you will receive a lot of spam messages, and you will always be happy.

6. If you have any questions about a certain aspect of the school, you can directly send an email to ask about the school, or call the school directly. This is the most authoritative answer. It is useless to ask other people or forums. If a secret is very enthusiastic and has a very detailed answer, write down his/her contact information and then ask him/her for any questions in the school, and generally get a satisfactory answer. However, not every school is so enthusiastic. Sometimes it is common to be ignored, cold, or delayed for a month.

7. direct phone calls are the most effective means of communication and inquiry. Make a draft before you start. Do not be nervous and the other party will not feel pity for your nervousness. However, the secrets are very nice, and conversations are generally casual and pleasant.

8. Do not rely too much on the forum. The Forum may know some information and knowledge, but it should not be based on the background given by others or the selection of schools to locate itself. Because forums often only write their own GPa and GT, and ignore soft conditions (Ps, CV, rl, WS, why essay, etc ), these are more decisive than GPa and GT.

9. The application must communicate with at least one local American. They help modify documents and give advice on schools, geographic locations, and local customs. If you don't know a foreigner or are embarrassed to ask someone for help, you can hire a one-on-one private tutor from a foreign teacher institution. If you have a high degree of education and graduated from a prestigious school, the charges may be higher, but they all return. They also improved their paperwork. Rather than relying on intermediary services, it is better to ask them to be reliable. In addition, they are more expensive than Intermediary Agencies (I am looking for one of them for three hours, one thousand yuan, ucdavis graduated, came three times for ten hours, and I have changed my article ps, three WS, and seven we, I have provided many school selection suggestions. In addition, it took more than three thousand yuan to introduce the foreign teacher institution. The document is still in the American language and the American logic, but what about intermediary ?? For 30 thousand yuan, it is enough to find Ten tutors. I only bought two Chinglish documents and had to modify them myself ). Don't joke about your future even if you can't afford it ~~

10. It is important for your parents to support you. Otherwise, you will not be able to do anything for most undergraduates who do not have financial resources.

11. The big situation is very important. If the U.S. economy is poor, the employment rate is low, and some majors that are convenient to stay in the United States may be difficult to apply for, some gold-plated majors may be very loose, and the admission rate is surprisingly high.

Preparations

12. gt is very important. The importance is that if you do not meet the requirements set by the school, you generally do not want to apply. However, it is not important to go through the exam again and again after reaching the school requirements. If it is not especially bad, it is really unnecessary. More important than GT is (Specific below), there is no need to spend on it.

13. Pay attention to the individual score requirements for each checkpoint.

14. do not trust the school GT requirements summarized on the Internet. I don't know how low the data is from the Year of the Monkey and the month of the monkey. I have to go to the official website of each school to check the data, each system has different requirements.

15. take the exam GT and take a picture. Remember to smile ~ In the future, the transcript will be copied to the school, leaving a good impression.

16. The TOEFL test cannot exceed three times. There are not so many opportunities in your life that make you turn around. You must be responsible for yourself. I believe that even if the TOEFL is poor, there will be a solution (the specific solution is as follows ).

17. If the GPA is not satisfied, it should be rebuilt.

18. I attended some volunteer activities in my freshman year. I attended some academic competitions, activities, and projects related to my major, and tried to write two papers. Remember to take photos for each important activity. You must keep your internship certificates, award certificates, and draft notices.

19. Ask the parent to open a bank account and prepare a deposit for long-term deposit. It is best to open a bank VIP customer. In the future, the proof of opening property will not be paid, and several pieces will be required. Apply for an additional accessory card and use it in the United States for global VIP.

20. School envelopes, school envelopes, and school envelopes. The chapter on the envelope must be consistent with the chapter on the file in the envelope, otherwise it is invalid.

21. accumulate a few teachers with good relationships to facilitate the recommendation of letters. If you want to sign a letter of recommendation from instructor Niu, you need to prepare for it at least one semester in advance. First, you should select their courses and perform well. Then, do not forget to keep in touch and express your academic experience, at the end of the term, I took a good score very seriously. In the end (generally there is also a half year) I will talk about the letter of recommendation. Don't say it too late. Many teachers are too popular. They are afraid that too many recommendation letters will depreciate their values. Generally, they will have a recommendation quota within a year. They will be unhappy when they leave late.

22. practice should also be well done, and the task handed in hand may eventually become a writing sample. The supervisor in the internship may be the recommender at last.

23. The counselor's help is very important. During the application period, she or his old man will often be troubled to find the internship certificates he handed in long ago, or to issue various ranking certificates, such as the transcript.

24. The easiest way to select a school is to pull a top one hundred ranking list, register an email, and draw a pencil. Every school on the list that meets your general requirements should go to the official website to view them one by one. Mainly: 1. whether to open the applied degree. Set the degree subject. 2. GT score requirements 3. the deadline that the application deadline for, whether to rolling (first come first Review) 4. whether to deliver through professional institutions (such as law school LSAC) 5. what's special, for example, 6. take a look at financal aid for financial considerations. Every school finds this and makes records on the ranking list one by one. If it is not suitable, it will be immediately removed. Each school has different characteristics. Some prefer work experience and some prefer fresh graduates. These can be seen in the Introduction ("Most of our students come from ......"). Of course, I am also interested in matching the conditions. From the perspective of the one hundred, there will always be so many of my own strengths and interests, and their rankings are generally graded, in this way, a preliminary school selection list is formed.

25. Every school must be a desired school. It's boring to apply for schools that don't want to be purely guaranteed.

26. If a school wants to go and GT is not up to standard, you can send an email asking if its GT requirements are flexable. If the answer is "yes", you can continue to apply for the school. If the answer is not answered by a small secret, or you simply do not reply back (you can directly call to ask), you can just cut it.

27. If you have dream school or dream sequence SOR, you must find their profile. Generally, you can download and read several of their articles in CV, with a contact email. After careful research, you can directly send an email to discuss with the teacher. Such a set of magnetic fields is of high quality and high level.

28. Confirm the school selection and contact ETS to send the GT score as soon as possible. Generally, the score will arrive in about a month. Other materials can be made slowly.

29. Buy a good printer next to the computer, buy a thick fold 120ga4 White Paper, prepare two waste paper bags. For more information, see section 74th.

Personal statement

30. PS is not as amazing as you think. I don't have a high score. I don't have enough TOEFL skills. I want to use a PS to enter a prestigious school? Frankly speaking, it is impossible. However, WS + CV + PS + RL can be used. However, only one article of PS could not achieve such a huge credit. PS is important, but something is more important than PS.

31. Each school has a PS requirement. After determining the school selection list, carefully study it. It must be written according to the requirements of the school.

32. before writing, be sure to read a large number of real PS examples from the professional predecessors (usually available online ).

33. Do not write anything in CV into PS (such as GPA, GT, awards, participating activities and projects, and publishing papers ). PS is a personal personalized statement outside of these quantified objective elements. Such as motivation to study, how to adapt to the professional personality characteristics, career planning, and so on. If you are familiar with the hardware, you are not recommended to write the PS of the dazzling version. It looks more reliable to write something sincere.

34. Many schools that do not require ws to regard PS as WS, so they must strive for perfection regardless of content and structure.

35. In PS, you can write the reason for selecting a school, or you can write another reason for choosing a school.

36. if we can integrate our past experiences with school characteristics, we can conclude that "I have been living for so many years and have had so many ups and downs to read your school, it is precisely because your school meets my resume and future needs as tailored. "That's a good PS + Why essay (.. ).

37. The translation of documents and papers should not trust translation companies or translation agencies. All of them are translated using translation software.

38. First write/translate PS and documents into English, and then ask foreigners to modify it. Do not look for a PS modification organization. Ask a foreigner to sit next to you and submit a sentence to modify it. Because there are often situations where foreigners do not understand what you mean, you can explain it to him, and then he suddenly realized and began to modify it.

39. There is no title for PS. You can enter PS and applicant, applied School, and major in the header (similarly, CV, WS, And We ).

40. The PS statement must be simplified and refined to delete any sentence and any word will affect the expression of the original text. You can use thesaurus to select words.

41. All documents are numbered 12 in the "Times New Roman" font, with double line spacing. PS is generally controlled within two pages. Do not secretly modify data such as indentation. If there are more than n standard documents in the hands of professors, you will know if you have changed it.

Curriculum vitae

42. I personally think the importance of several elements (liberal arts, especially law schools): CV> ws> GT> GPA> PS (including we)> RL. You need to use GPa to prove your general learning ability, use GT to prove your English proficiency and standardized test ability, and use CV to cover your three-year college major achievements, WS is used to show the specific level of professional research, PS is used to show personalized factors from another perspective, and RL is used to draw out another image of the applicant from other aspects, use we to express your sincerity in applying for the school and your individual needs. These things are combined into a whole. Even the most unimportant RL, which is relatively ranking, must be put into great effort (see point 21st ). So in general, none of these indicators are unimportant and must be taken seriously. Only by trying to make all aspects as impeccable as possible can we get good results.

43. CV is very important. It can understand the approximate level of the applicant in the shortest time, so CV is the first thing that the Professor sees after the transcript and GT. However, a good CV requires three years of long-term efforts and accumulation (18th points ).

44. Find a professional cv. Don't refer to the professors who are cool. You can refer to the CVs of American fresh graduates. The words are professional and the format is formal.

45. With 18th background and CV templates, you can list these experiences as OK. Use words as best as possible. At last, it is best to attach photos of various activities, awards, and papers to greatly increase authenticity and intuition (if you apply for law school, you should attach them more, make the professor think that you have a good habit of attaching evidence to everything ).

46. The CV should be detailed and well documented. For example, the internship should include the work unit, address, phone number, supervisor and contact information, work content, working hours of one week, and reason for leaving. To write the award, enter the organizer, the location of the participants, the instructor and contact information, the content of the competition, and the photo of the award on the last page.

47. fraud is not important.

48. Pay attention to the echo of the application materials. For example, the CV is written to publish a paper, and you can say that see WS and WS to attach the English version of the paper; or the CV is written to participate in a certain professional activity, PS writes about the leap/change in my career interest since I participated in this activity. This will make your application look more holistic and more authentic.

49. If the CV has a lot of images, pay attention to the capacity compression, otherwise the network won't be uploaded.

50. The paper and print shops applied for are also important. We recommend that you use GB of paper to find the best print shop. The photos and awards in your bid resume should be clearly printed and look very textured.

Recommendation letter

51. Generally, the school needs three letters of recommendation, two letters of academic professors, and one letter of practice from the school. Something to prove: 1. Academic ability 2. Learning Ability in the English environment. If you have a professor in a bilingual professional course or an intern boss who handles foreign affairs, this is a great opportunity. Please do it right away ~!

52. The letter of recommendation should not be vague. Specific and real examples should be provided. It is better to create an example for others to write data.

53. Ask the intern for a letter of recommendation. If there is no way to open a letter of recommendation, it is best not to open a letter to the public. It will be very troublesome and generally not to open a letter of recommendation. Just find a good colleague in the internship unit to help open the letter.

54. foreigners generally refuse to open letters of recommendation.

55. letters of recommendation are often rejected, especially by people in the community. The table is frustrated, and the practice is to combat the fight capability ..

56. In addition to the recommender's signature on the letter of recommendation, the school to which you want to write the letter, the applicant's name and signature, the applied major and the online application number (these should also be written on the transcript envelope ). Otherwise, if the envelope falls, you will not know who it is.

Writing sample

57. ws is very important. It is important because it is the best embodiment of academic ability.

58. Any professional articles can be used as ws. At that time, I handed in three WS, a full score comment for my school assignments, an outline of the Agency opinion written by the law firm during my internship, and an original article. I dare not say how well I write, but I promise that these practical academic things are much more useful than the PS of writing ten clever words.

59. Be sure to contact an American. Because many Chinese-style logical expressions do not work in their eyes, and even many interesting and thoughtful articles written in Chinese are written in the hands of Americans, because of the differences in cultural concepts and ideology, I feel that there is no need for discussion (especially political and legal articles ).

60. to upload a thesis, you must specify the original document rather than the published version, which has not been edited or modified by others.

61. For the essay writing format, see the APA Fifth Edition.

62. ws should be as streamlined as PS, revised and read repeatedly, and the logical rigor should be realized.

63. if ws are too long, you can send a small email to ask if you can modify the font size and line spacing and print them on both sides. At that time, you will also hear different secrets about ws. Some may say yes, some say they do not accept papers, and some say it is best to pick one article (of course I sent three articles together). The best one said they only read the documents they specified, all others are discard .. Finally, I got the waiting list ..

Why essay

64. This is optional, but it is useful. Why essay is the reason for selecting a school. For example, why Yale is the reason for selecting a school from Yale. PS, after all, has a limited number of words. The reason for selecting a school is only a small segment to write well. If you are not thorough enough, you can open another we. This also ensures that PS is a pure personal statement, and schools are uniform, while we schools have different distinctive characteristics.

65. To write good we, first dig through the webpages of various schools. There are usually brochure of professional departments. This is definitely a good thing. Be sure to study it carefully, find the characteristics that the school is proud of, and then cater to it. For example, if a certain school says that it has the third largest collection in the United States and has frequent international academic seminars, we can write "I am very interested in Chinese Legal Culture from the American perspective, because the United States has a mature legal accumulation and a completely different cultural heritage. One of the reasons I chose your school is that it has a large collection of books. I can certainly find the views of various schools of scholars on Chinese legal culture, at the international student conference, I was able to hear the ideas of students from various countries. This is very helpful for me to return home from Japan to handle foreign clients and foreign cases. "cloud ..

66. Generally, the school also publishes professional courses. You must study these courses to find out the courses you are interested in (such as the example of the China law course ).

67. do not select you because the GT requirements are low. Even if you say "you are a minority of schools that do not only focus on scores", if you choose a low GT, in addition to the GT transcript, do not submit the Report for the entire application. You don't need to apologize or feel inferior, just try to show other aspects.

Application Process

68. buy N good plastic archive bags and folders. One school has a folder, and each school's checklist needs to be sent out in the archive, and the archive has a name on it, the school and applied professional and online application numbers are sent together with the portfolio.

69. Do not use a stapler to bind materials on more than one page. It is very troublesome for the secret to be split up. Just use a paper clip.

70. The secretary first reviewed the applicant's materials based on the GT and GPA scores.

71. Pay for an international bill of exchange at the Bank of China. If the selected school is changed, the draft can be refunded and the Application Form filled in at that time will be taken. The staff over there are generally nice.

72. Some application fees can be waive, depending on school regulations. You can give it a try. When writing a waive application, you must indicate your financial difficulties and the GPA and GT scores, so that the school will believe that you are a good talent and will not miss your free application.

73. If the GT is not high, you can request an interview. During the interview, I stressed that the signal was not good, which paved the way for a huge number of pardon.

74. Prepare two paper bags next to the computer, one with single-sided waste paper and the other with double-sided waste paper. The application will waste NNN a lot of paper, and I often press a wrong word and try again. Once a mistake is found, it will be immediately inserted into the waste paper bag; otherwise, in the end, these identical sheets of paper will be too much to figure out which piece of paper is the body.

75. Open a proof of property along with materials, especially in the United States during the recession.

76. Write a cover list.

77. the first mail should never be the school you want to go, because you may find many small mistakes in your materials during the sending process, and correct them one by one (of course, you can do everything without correction ). Compared with the last one, the first one is just a lab mouse with a hundred holes.

78. If you hand it over to the courier company when sending the mail, there will be a magical sense of destiny ~ Kiss your materials and enjoy the wonderful feeling!

79. Remember to search online within two or three working days after the express delivery, send the recipient and send an email to the school asking if the materials have been received. Be alert that sometimes it may be an irrelevant person who has signed for it. The materials are always placed in a corner of the room and never been reviewed! If you do not send an email back to the school (usually busy at this time), you can call them directly. Make sure you have entered their system to wait for the message.

80. Do not rush to prepare documents in a hurry. You must carefully modify the documents to your satisfaction and then send them out.

81. It is best to send the email before the end of the year, not later than January 1, middle February (if deadline is more reliable ). The sending time does not affect admission, but does affect scholarship. Generally, the scholarship is no longer available after it is delivered.

82. The schools that ended in May June were not reliable at all and their visas were too late.

83. Try to pay online for the network application. Once a paid computer is used, the registered online information availbale to the school will be automatically sent (not paid for what you upload is invisible to the school). If you mail a bill, you need to manually debug the system, it takes several weeks to slow down (think about how many application materials are reviewed every day, and how many people are slow for several weeks ~~ I sent a draft to an online application School and waited for more than a week before I saw my online application successful. Finally, I paid for it again if I was afraid that I could not have time, the online application was successful in one second. After more than a week, I found out that I finally returned the draft ).

84. Do not try to skip the charges, regardless of the application fee or the ETS delivery fee. Now many schools will find that you will not be urged to skip the charge, and you will automatically pass deadline. It is not worth the money.

 

 

Admission and reply phase

85. In most cases, I don't know how many pounds I have before I get the results. After being admitted, I began to expand myself.

86. admission to schools is generally concentrated in March and later in March, some of which are in April. Some early sending of the first batch may result at the end of the year or January.

87. If the mail is sent, generally the rejection or waiting list has only one thin piece of paper, while offer and ad will be accompanied by a lot of tables and school materials. So what is the result? You don't even need to split the envelope. Just give it a try.

88. Most schools will be very diligent after admission. If you have a question, you will ask "May I take it you are accepting our offer of admission ?"

89. Most rejected schools will ask you where you are going or why you do not choose their schools, so that they can improve.

90. Do not ask the secret of the rejected school to help your adviser to which school to go.

91. Before 415, the dust must be settled and the school should be decided.

92. If you do not want to go to the school, you will reject it early. accumulate RP and leave the location blank for the students.

93. If a proof of property is provided, the school will directly send the i20 visa form and the rejected school will send it back.

94. don't say anything, "a school like XX is only awarded half a prize, and it is not worth it at all." Every school's review professors read countless people. In the end, you are not worth the money, they will know how much money they give.

95. Do not say that a certain school is very popular this year. If you have any questions, you will know how much you have paid and take care of the emotions of those who have not yet received the offer.

96. If you are admitted, keep in touch with each other. You may receive a scholarship later (for the Scholarship Selection and admission separate schools ).

97. The waiting list should also keep writing letters in the past to indicate continuous attention and may escape.

98. There are a lot of admission cases that can be used to force awards to individual schools.

99. thanks to those who have helped you, visit the teacher, treat colleagues and friends, and notify them immediately when they get the first admission. Without their help, you will not have today.

100. Studying abroad is a very lucky thing. When a plane lands and sees a brand new country, a strange city in the corner of my eye, what kind of passion and excitement is there. Good luck to all the students preparing! Happy ending!