英国G5学校是在英国学校中在国内知名度最高、认可度最高的5所学校合称。G5 (G5 super elite, “G5超级精英”,也称做“金砖五校”)包括以下五所学校:剑桥大学(Cambridge)、 牛津大学(Oxford)、帝国理工学院(Imperial College London,简称 ICL)、伦敦大学学院 (University College London,简称UCL)、伦敦政治经济学院(The London School of Economics and Political Science,简称LSE) 。这五所学校是很多英国申请者的冲刺学校,其中剑桥大学、牛津大学难度最大,申请成功概率最低。
除了G5学校外,英国还有一些在国内知名度、认可度较高的综合类学校,如圣路易斯大学 (University of St Andrews)、杜伦大学(Durham University)、华威大学(University of Warwick)、巴斯大学(University of Bath)、利兹大学(University of Leeds)、约克大学 (University of York)、谢菲尔德大学(University of Sheffield)等。另外例如伦敦商学院 (London Business School)这样的国际化商学院也因为其骄人的就业前景而值得申请者多加关注。
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b. 类比推理:特殊的因果推理题。因是AB的相似处,果是B有A的一个特点。切入点两个:1. 因果联系,此类题的特殊处在于果是由于AB相似推出的,如果AB真真相似,那么推理是成立的,如果AB有不相似处,则推理可能不成立。所以此类题的攻击点如果是因果联系,那么选项必定同时提到AB的不相似处(字面上不一定同时提到A和B)。 2. 干扰因素,即它因法,此类题中就是找到另一个案例C,它具有AB的相似处,但是没有A的结论特点,所以削弱。
c. 方案推理:方案的目标给定,不容置疑,问题均出在方案能否实现目标上。目标为果,方案为因,论证方案是否能导致目标,实质上是果因推理题。与果因不同的是,此类题不用攻击它因,因为题目要求就是评价给定的因能否推出给定的果,找出它因而不涉及原来因果关系对解题没帮助
Part 1 申请背景及录取结果 Part 2 申请准备阶段 Q1:是否要出国读研? Q2:是否需要找中介? Q3:关于个人背景 Part 3选校定位阶段 Q4:选校定位 Q5:申请数量 Part 4文书、材料准备阶段 Q6:简历制作 Q7:个人陈述 Q8:推荐信 Q9:其他材料 Part 5 网申、投递材料阶段
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Growing up in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant, my childhood was marked by a chimney belching dark smoke. Many people contracted lung diseases and it was this early, unsettling exposure to ... [An applicant for masters in area of biological sciences]
I looked up, nose to nose with Ms. Smith. I couldn’t believe she was talking to me. Reluctantly, I stood up, unable to fathom why my favorite teacher would ever punish me.
I will be a success at your school and beyond because...
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My aunt has been an active stock investor during these years and she has made a fortune from her investment. This gets me into thinking - what are the magic of finance and the stock market?
I started off by taking related courses in my Statistics Program such as C++, Python, and Mathematical Finance. In my Mathematical Finance course, I have done a very interesting project…
As for my future career goal, studying financial engineering will undoubtedly expand my career options. Soon after graduation, I am desired to become a quantitative researcher or…
"Thank you so much for your reading." "Your esteemed faculty..."
“非常感谢你的阅读。”
“尊敬的老师”
我建议你用对你申请更有帮助的内容来代替这样的短语。同时避免出现报告或者评论形式的内容。
Education is the foundation of the national youth, and new digital technology is the sill of network education.
教育是民族青年的基础,而新的数字技术则是网络教育的基石。
像这种话任何人都可以说得出来。比如我!因此当你读完自己的文书后,问自己这个问题:其他人能这样说吗?
3、稳健性
你对未来是否欠缺规划或者随意规划?这种类型的问题在下面的示例中非常常见:
I believe that my statistics background combined with … the skills and connections I will gain in this program can help me achieve my career goal and allow me to have the chance to pay back to the society in the future.
I acquired teamwork and communication skills during my internship. I am now able to hold discussions with diverse groups of individuals, and I can always find a way to conduct difficult discussions. I can work productively with a team on large projects but I can also assume a leadership role if circumstances require it.
The exhibition of vintage cars I arranged attracted over 2,000 people, but its seamless operations began with a discussion I had with a team of unwilling construction workers. Their complaints required urgent resolution, while the owners of the cars had concerns that their vehicles would be handled with care.
This Master of Finance Program gives me access to many things I will need to attain my career goal. The curriculum focusing both on Financial Engineering and Data Science courses could offer desired skills and knowledge to attain a Quantitative Analyst position.
What differences should I be aware of when applying to schools in UK and US? Will there be any preferences in ways of expression?
申请英国和美国的学校时,我应该注意哪些区别?表达方式会不会有偏好
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Thank you for your question. I’m going to deal with the second part first: “preferences in ways of expression”. Then, I’m just going to give a quick overview on a some of the other differences—besides “ways of expression”—that you may be aware of already but are worth noting.
Meaning, spelling, and usage can all vary between US and UK English. Sometimes it’s said that the UK and US are ‘two countries divided by a common language’. Generally, however, the differences (in both directions) are very easy for a native speaker to figure out. I’m British but more and more nowadays I have the spellchecker set to ‘US English’.Nonetheless, occasionally the differences have serious consequences!
For example, Winston Churchill wrote about a misunderstanding during WWII that occurred because of differences in American and British understandings of the verb phrase “to table an item on a meeting agenda”:
The US meaning is “to suspend or delay the item from discussion”;
The UK meaning is “to open an item up for discussion”. Basically, the opposite! In the circumstances, it was important to resolve this quickly!
Differences that are most commonly known however are somewhat less weighty! Unsurprisingly, the differences people are most aware of tend to those that come up regularly in popular culture:
Food (cookie v. biscuit / pronounciation of ‘tom-ay-to’ v. ‘tom-ar-to’)
Clothes (purse v. handbag / sneaker v. trainer)
Leisure pursuits (soccer v. football / movie v. film)
Slang uses also, obviously, vary very widely. But since these documents require a degree of formality, you won’t be writing in slang in your applications. Therefore I won’t talk about these too much.
但是,最常见的差异往往也不太重要!毫不奇怪,人们最了解的差异往往是流行文化中经常出现的差异: 食物的用法(饼干cookie v. biscuit/西红柿的发音:“ tom-ay-to” v. “ tom-ar-to”) 服饰的用法(钱包purse v. handbag/运动鞋:sneaker v. trainer) 休闲类(足球:soccer v. football/电影:movie v. film) 俚语的使用差异也很巨大。但是,由于文书比较正式,因此你不会在申请材料中使用俚语。因此,我就不过多谈论这些。
Other famous differences might be… the US calling the third season of the year, ‘fall’ versus the UK’s ‘autumn’. Or the US calling the punctuation mark that ends a sentence a ‘period’, whereas in the UK it is referred to as a ‘full stop’.There are lots of other tiny differences in usage such as:
The British put an ‘s’ at the end of directional adverbs like ‘forwards’ or ‘towards’. American usually omit the ‘s’, so it’s ‘forward’ or ‘toward’
One difference that a lot of people seem to know is that in the UK the word ‘whilst’ is commonly used, but in the US it’s kind of unknown and people always say ‘while’.
But you know what? Aside from setting the spellchecker to the correct version of English, I think it would be a mistake to agonize or worry much about these issues.I’ll just give a quick overview of some more substantial differences that might be more useful for guiding your thinking as you prepare your applications:
To make this answer a reasonable length, I’m going to assume you’re asking about master’s programs. I want to emphasize that I’m speaking really, really generally here because… I don’t know your exact circumstances. Differences to be aware of include:
US graduate degrees can be a bit broader in focus, especially at the outset. In the UK there tends to be more specialization and independent learning; so, you might want to consider more emphasis on experiences attesting to those skills.
The typical duration of a master’s in the UK can be nine to 12 months; in the US it’s more often about two years. If you’re doing a master’s to give yourself a boost in your professional career, you may wish to factor in the greater time-cost of a US program. On the other side, you may want to balance that the networking opportunities in the US may be better. (The actual cost is another meaningful consideration for most people!)
The working visa situation is always fluid, but if you have an interest in spending some time working professionally in the country where you take your master’s, my geopolitical hunch is that this may be more achievable in the UK.
In the UK you’re also going to be sparing yourself—for most programs—the additional difficulty of taking many of the big standardized tests.
I want to end by saying that another difference people often talk about is teaching style or culture. And I know I’ve made a lot of generalizations and assumptions in this answer, but I think this would be going too far!
I think knowing the culture of each school you apply to should be a really important priority if you want to submit a quality application. The environment is what will determine your success, so I want to end my answer by urging you to focus on looking into the schools and programs individually and avoiding generalized assumptions. This is the best advice I can give to help you make the most sensible decisions about your applications.Outstanding applications support is at your fingertips on http://zhishiQ.com
· 及时联系admission team。虽然此时你还没有为转正做出实质性的努力,但你一旦确定自己要转正,就需要即使向学校确认自己的态度,这样他们才会把留在pool里,做后期的考虑。此时的回复我们一般叫做“表白信”,它的作用我们称之为“表忠心”。我当时的方法是,先罗列自己收到了offer,但强调“I always give the first priority to your school and program, because…”
· 这里再跟大家强调一下“更新”。我在WL期间一直都有跟admission team有邮件联系,我定期会跟他们update我的信息,他们也会给我回复“delight to hear”。有人会担心这样频率的联系会不会让对方觉得聒噪,我的想法是不需要太勤,自己设定一个频次,并督促自己在一个频次的周期里达到某个目标,并将这个目标转述给学校。之所以要强调,是因为你完全不知道学校会在哪个时刻发offer,特别是转正offer,也许就在你低头闷声努力但学校什么都不知道的时候,他已经开始发转正的offer了,把你打的措手不及。我的一位同学在终于下决心开始写表白信的第二天,学校就开始放转正offer了,很遗憾的是综合背景与能力都非常出色的她最后没有拿到offer。因此,即使更新是非常的必要的。
Toefl和Gmat/Gre。这一部分的标准分需要注意,因为有一部分的学校是完全不接受你语言分更新的,并且会邮件拒绝的,例如Rochester Simon。但有的学校是默认可以接受,在你发送完成绩单邮件后,会回复邮件“thank you for updating”。但无论如何,你可以尝试发送新的成绩单,看对方是否接受。
Marketing Communication: 这个专业主要偏向传媒以及广告。对public relation,advertising,communication比较感兴趣的同学可以考虑申请这个方向。毕业后的就业方向大多都是偏communication方向的职位如public relation specialist,marketing consultant,media strategist等。代表院校有南加大Master of Science in Communication Management。
过去的这两个quarter里,我大多时间都是在group work,meeting,写作业中度过的。比我想象中的master课程workload更大,但是我觉得这是一个你投入多少就能收获多少的过程。有熬夜写case到凌晨三点为第二天的presentation焦虑到不行的时刻,第二天上完case discussion看professor是如何从众多信息中汲取有效的几点关键信息让复杂的case变得简单明了恍然大悟的时刻,还有group discussion从teammates身上获得了新颖的看问题的角度而愉悦的时刻,坐在教室里听台上某大公司CMO讲座心里想着what‘s ahead of me的好奇而又充满斗志的时刻。
完成小组project进行视频录制
冬天的西北依旧很美
每次presentation完都有新的收获
我把我在IMC这段时间里学习到的东西列成了一个list,现在一共有18条。其中一条我印象特别深,是我们的associate dean在branding课上说过的一句话:“What got you here won’t get you there. You have to evolve, adapt and change. You need a plan to win.” 我想这也是Medill目前给我带来除学科知识以外心态上的提升和改变。
我是gap year一年后,从2016年11月开始申请金融和管理方向的硕士,现在已经在学校进行了将近半年的学习。在一年前的申请中虽然拿到了不少心仪的offer,但是信心满满的自己最喜欢项目的wl还是给了我当头一棒。 无奈之下,我拉长了申请战线,通过自己的努力在半个月后接到学校的offer电话,成功转正。并且根据自己的经验帮助了当时一起申请的朋友,wl转正拿到了另一家top school的金数硕士offer。 这次我自己又仔细梳理了一次当时用过的方法,并搭配效果与最具体的建议,在这里跟大家分享。由于我是商科背景,所以本篇文章的某些特定方法更加适合商科项目申请者使用。但理论是通用的,也希望能帮到其他背景的同学! 1. 什么是waitlist? Waitlist,即“候补名单”,即申请者在通过网申甚至顺利拿到面试后,学校既没有接受你,却也没有直接拒绝你的行为。一般情况下,你会收到学校发来的一封邮件,告诉你,我们在现在这个阶段,还无法对你的申请作出决定——“sorry, we cannot decided at this time”. 这种模糊不定的态度,既给申请者压力,又给予希望。据我了解,一小部分情况(当项目坑位太多,即大部分拿到offer的人没有选择这个项目的时候),学校会主动再发一批offer。这种情况下,申请者可以耐心等待。但大部分情况,特别是热门项目竞争都是非常激烈的,如何让学校在这么多的wl学生以及下一轮的面试学生中选择你,有很多可以采取的方法。
2. 有哪些原因可能会被waitlist? 在谈具体的补救方法之前,大致罗列一下申请者可能会被waitlist的原因。这些原因是我在wl期间自己通过搜寻网络资料、询问往届申请者,以及来到学校后与admission成员闲聊后汇总而得。因此,以下的罗列并不能包含所有的原因,大家阅读完后确保有一个大致的了解即可,避免机械地“对号入座”。 1) 申请者背景(gpa, toefl, gmat/gre, 本科学校背景与实习背景)没有达到学校或者项目的要求,但项目广发面试邀请。 2) 申请者背景已经达到了项目的要求,但是笔试/面试(或者两者)表现平平,甚至与你的背景之间出现了明显的差异。 3) 申请者背景已经达到了项目的要求,面试也比较顺利。但是面试官向学校反馈你不适合这个项目: a) 面试官认为你over-qualify b) 面试官认为你的气质与学校氛围不符合,例如学校特别强调leadership,但是你的teamwork能力更强;学校强调diversity,但是你的生活经验与兴趣稍显单调 4) 申请者背景达到了项目的要求,面试官反馈也较好,但是因为项目前几轮发放的offer数量太多,项目坑位有限,在没有人直接拒绝offer时,只能向你先发放wl。 这四种情况,拿到最终offer的可能性,从1)到4)逐步递增。可以说,在WL期间没有采取任何主动行为,并拿到成功拿到offer的,基本就是第4)种。
3. 被WL之后要怎么做? 这是最重要的一步分布,我会从心理调整、及时更新状态、背景提升、更新PS、校友推荐几个方面跟大家进行详细的阐述。 1) 目标确定与心态调整 收到WL是一件很让人挠心的事情。相比WL,可能会有一部分申请者像我一样,更希望收到学校最为直接爽快的offer或者拒信。 挫败感肯定是有的,特别是你在申请群里看到大家相互祝贺的时候。然而,收到拒信的人此时又会很羡慕你,毕竟WL带来了希望。作为一个饼干中的夹心,面对这种两难的境地,我建议申请者先用一到两天的时间将焦躁的心情平复下来,整理自己已有的申请结果信息,根据自己的维度反复对比衡量,并向有经验的申请者寻求建议,确认是否需要为转正做出努力,或者放弃WL选取另一个offer。 WL转正是一个比较艰难的时期,如果最终确定了为转正而努力的目标,就需要做好拉长申请战线以及承受巨大压力的心理准备。毕竟在那时,各个社交平台上都是大家晒offer的动态了。 2) 及时更新状态 这一点,指的是你需要及时与学校取得联系。WL转正是有一个黄金时期的,在这个时期里,申请者需主动并即使地跟学校取得联系并表达坚定的态度与意愿,“as soon as possible!” 毕竟进入WL后,你的主动性是让你脱引而出的主要原因。 · 联系你的面试官。他们不是最终决定者,但他们是你表现与态度的直接传达者,会影响admission team最后的决定,特别是非常注重校友态度的商学院。我拿到WL后,第一时间与面试官进行了邮件沟通。我的面试将近一个小时,面试氛围很愉悦,所以没有想到会拿WL。由于学校的规定,我的面试官并没有明确告知我在面试时有什么不足。但是他给了我大量建议,并在我WL期间一直与我保持联系,这给了我极大的鼓励,也让我对自己转正逐渐有了信心。 · 及时联系admission team。虽然此时你还没有为转正做出实质性的努力,但你一旦确定自己要转正,就需要即使向学校确认自己的态度,这样他们才会把留在pool里,做后期的考虑。此时的回复我们一般叫做“表白信”,它的作用我们称之为“表忠心”。我当时的方法是,先罗列自己收到了offer,但强调“I always give the first priority to your school and program, because...” · 这里再跟大家强调一下“更新”。我在WL期间一直都有跟admission team有邮件联系,我定期会跟他们update我的信息,他们也会给我回复“delight to hear”。有人会担心这样频率的联系会不会让对方觉得聒噪,我的想法是不需要太勤,自己设定一个频次,并督促自己在一个频次的周期里达到某个目标,并将这个目标转述给学校。之所以要强调,是因为你完全不知道学校会在哪个时刻发offer,特别是转正offer,也许就在你低头闷声努力但学校什么都不知道的时候,他已经开始发转正的offer了,把你打的措手不及。我的一位同学在终于下决心开始写表白信的第二天,学校就开始放转正offer了,很遗憾的是综合背景与能力都非常出色的她最后没有拿到offer。因此,即使更新是非常的必要的。 3)背景提升 在调整好心态并与学校取得第一步联系后,你需要重新开始对自己的背景做一个综合衡量。请大家记住一点,研究生申请时一个综合素质考量的过程,一个标准分不出色但是实习经验丰富的人完全有可能获得很好的申请结果(我认识一个本科gpa非常一般但实习背景惊人的前辈,依旧被MIT Finance项目录取)。我把它总结为下面这个公式: 这个公式:申请结果=申请者大背景(标准分+本科学校背景+活动经验+实习经验)+网申结果(包括ps和cv)+面试结果。 在拿到WL之后,我建议申请者好好思考,自己是在哪一个部分做的有所欠缺。
Toefl和Gmat/Gre。这一部分的标准分需要注意,因为有一部分的学校是完全不接受你语言分更新的,并且会邮件拒绝的,例如Rochester Simon。但有的学校是默认可以接受,在你发送完成绩单邮件后,会回复邮件“thank you for updating”。但无论如何,你可以尝试发送新的成绩单,看对方是否接受。 由于Toefl不能当场出分,所以我更建议大家早些把Toefl考好。想要在短期内刷托福分,一是很难找到考位,而是出分与成绩单有太长的延误。因此如果T和G两者都有刷分的必要性,我建议更新G的成绩,毕竟可以当场出一份成绩单。