1. Stick to DIY.

2.

Academic ability. The reason why professors want to admit you is that they value you most, not because of your high TOEFL score, nor because of your hype, but because of your academic ability. Academic ability! Do you think the professor will really be interested in your history of leukemia struggle? Do you think the professor will be interested in your singing, dancing, humor and happiness? Versatile, with a wide range of interests, is helpful for university admission, but graduate school is still a place to highlight professional ability. Professors are looking for students who can help them do things, participate in their research and understand their academic achievements, or people who are on the same road with them, or at least people who have certain academic potential and can be trained to be on the same road. Therefore, the whole application must highlight the theme of these four words. During college, professors are interested in participating in more professional projects, winning some professional awards, publishing some papers, writing some professional articles, and participating in some related authoritative organizations and activities. If you feel that your accomplishments are not enough, you can read some professional books and academic papers in your application. As long as you act, it's never too late.

It's not difficult to apply, but it's trivial, and it will take you much more time than you budgeted.

Since I am an undergraduate, I don't have to compare with professionals who have worked for several years or doctoral students with strong academic background in China. We just need to do better than most undergraduates.

5.

Register a special and authoritative email address (political stability is needed, so don't quit the China market easily, otherwise it's useless to cry then), and don't use it for other registrations, otherwise you will receive a lot of spam messages and always be happy.

6.

If you have any questions about the school, send an email to ask the school directly, or call the school directly. This is the most authoritative answer, don't ask others or forums, it's useless. If a secretary is particularly enthusiastic and answers in detail, write down his/her contact information, and ask him/her any questions from the school in the future, and generally get a satisfactory answer. But not every school is so enthusiastic, and sometimes it is common to be ignored or neglected or delayed for a month.

7.

Calling directly is the most effective way to communicate and ask questions. Make a draft before you call. Take it easy. The other party will not pity your nervousness. But the little secret person is good, and the conversation is generally casual and pleasant.

8.

Don't rely too much on forums. The forum can learn some information and knowledge, but don't position yourself according to the background given by others and the choice of the school. Because forums often only write their own GPA and GT, completely ignoring soft conditions (PS, CV, RL, WS, WHY.

Essays, etc. ), and these are far more decisive for the application results than GPA and GT.

9.

You must communicate with at least one native American in your application. They helped to revise the documents and made some suggestions on schools, geographical locations and customs. If you don't know foreigners or are embarrassed to ask for help, go to a foreign teacher institution and hire a one-on-one private tutor. Higher education and graduation from a prestigious school may cost a little more, but they are all rewarding. Their polished documents are also better. It is better to ask them to be more reliable than relying on intermediaries. And no matter how expensive it is, it is cheaper than the intermediary (I was looking for 3 hours 1000 yuan, graduated from UCDavis, 10 hour, came three times, changed to a PS, three W's and seven WEs, and gave me a lot of advice on choosing a school. In addition, the introduction fee of foreign educational institutions only cost more than 3 thousand yuan, and the documents are still authentic American English and American logic.

10. Parental support is very important. Make sure they support you. Otherwise, for most undergraduates who have no financial resources, you can't do anything without their support.

1 1. The overall situation is very important. If the American economy is not good and the employment rate is low, it may be difficult to apply for some majors that are convenient to work in the United States, while some gold-plated majors may be easy and the admission rate is surprisingly high.

Get ready.

12.

GT is very important. What is important is that if you can't meet the requirements set by the school, there is generally no hope of applying. But it is not important to get high marks again and again after meeting the requirements of the school. If there is no special hobby, it is really unnecessary. There are many more important things than GT (described in detail below), so there is absolutely no need to spend them on it.

13. Pay attention to the individual scoring requirements of each proofreader GT.

14. Don't believe the GT requirements of various schools summarized online. I don't know the date of the Year of the Monkey, which is much lower. You have to go to the departments of each school to check for yourself, official website. Each department has different requirements.

15. Take good photos when taking the GT test, and remember to smile ~ Copy the report card and send it to the school to leave a good impression.

16. Don't take the TOEFL more than three times. Life doesn't have that many opportunities for you to turn around. You must be responsible for yourself. And I believe that even if TOEFL is not good, there will be ways to solve it (the specific measures are as follows).

17.GPA If you feel dissatisfied, rebuild it quickly.

18.

Freshman takes part in some volunteer activities, sophomore and junior take part in some academic competitions, activities and projects related to their majors, and strive to write two papers. Remember to take photos at every important event, leaving internship certificate, award certificate, instructions for using the draft and so on.

19.

Let parents open a bank account and prepare a deposit to put in for a long time. It is best to open a VIP customer of the bank, and it is free to open a real estate license in the future. You can have as much as you want. Get another supplementary card, and then take it to the United States for use, a global VIP.

20. Transcripts issued by the school and stamped by the school; Professional ranking college, college envelope. The seal on the envelope must be consistent with the seal on the document in the envelope, otherwise it is invalid.

2 1.

Accumulate a few good teachers to give letters of recommendation. If you want to sign teacher Niu's recommendation letter, you need to prepare at least one semester in advance-choose their classes first, and then do well. Don't forget to keep in touch from time to time and express your academic experience. At the end of the term, you should get good grades very seriously, and finally (usually half a year) talk about letters of recommendation. Don't speak too late. Many teachers are so popular that they are afraid that too many letters of recommendation will devalue their value. Generally, there will be a recommendation limit for one year, and they will be unhappy if they are late.

22. Internship should also be done well, and the tasks handed in are likely to become writing samples in the end. The boss of the internship may end up as a referee.

23. The help of counselors is very important. During the application period, her/his old people often worry about finding internship certificates handed in a long time ago, or issuing various ranking certificates and borrowing transcripts.

24.

The easiest way to choose a school is to draw a list of the top 100 students, register an email address and a pencil. Every school on the list that meets its general requirements must go to official website in person. Mainly: 1. Whether to provide an applied degree and the setting of degree majors.

2.GT score requirement 3. Application deadline, whether to scroll (first come, first try) 4. Whether it should be passed through professional institutions (such as LSAC of law school).

5. What's special about it? For example, the enrollment scale is extremely small (global 15 students), or non-American campuses. 6. those who care about finance look at Financal.

Aid film. Every school found it this way, and then recorded it on the ranking list one by one, and some inappropriate ones were immediately crossed out. Each school has different characteristics, some prefer those with work experience, and some prefer fresh graduates. All these can be seen in the introduction ("Most of our students come from ……"). Of course, there are more than a dozen people who are interested, and the rankings are generally gradient, thus forming a preliminary school selection list.

25. Every school must be the one you really want to go to. It's boring to apply for a school that doesn't want to go to a pure guaranteed school.

26.

If a school wants to go and the GT is not up to standard, you can send an email to ask if its GT requirements are flexible. If the secret answer is yes, you can continue to apply for the school. If you can't answer the little secret or don't answer it at all (you can call directly if you don't give up), cross it.

27. If there is a dream school, dream

Professor, be sure to find their profiles. In general, there are several of their articles in CV that can be downloaded and read, and the contact email address is attached. After careful study, send an email directly to discuss with the teacher. This magnetism is of high quality and standard.

28. Make sure that the school will contact ETS as soon as possible to send GT scores, usually in about a month. Other materials can be done slowly.

29. Buy a better printer next to the computer, buy a thick stack of 120 a4 white paper, and prepare two waste paper bags. See article 74 for specific operations.

Personal statement

30.

PS is not as magical as imagined. The GPA is not high, the TOEFL is not enough, and you want to enter a prestigious school with a PS? Frankly speaking, it is impossible. But WS+CV+PS+RL can do it. However, just one PS can't make such great contributions. PS is very important, but there is something more important than PS.

3 1. Every school has requirements for PS. After determining the list of schools, study it carefully. Be sure to write according to the requirements of the school.

32. Before writing, you must read a lot of real PS examples of the same professional predecessors (generally online and offline).

33.

Anything that can be written in CV should not be written in PS (such as GPA, GT, awards won, activities and projects attended, published papers, etc. ). PS is a personal personalized statement that shows these quantitative objective elements. For example, the motivation of learning, how one's own personality characteristics suit this major, career planning and so on. If students with general hardware conditions, it is not recommended to write a dazzling version of PS, and writing something sincere and true looks more reliable.

34. Many schools that don't require WS will regard PS as WS, so both content and structure should be perfect.

35. In PS, you can write the reason for choosing a school, or you can write WE separately.

36.

If you can combine your past experience with the characteristics of the school, and come to the conclusion that "I have lived for so many years and experienced so many frustrations just to study in your school, which is exactly what your school tailored for me to meet my life experience and future needs", it will be a very good PS+Why.

Essay (. . Sorry).

Don't trust translation companies or translation agencies to translate documents and papers. They are all translated by translation software.

38.

Write/translate PS and documents into English by yourself, and then ask foreigners to modify them. Instead of looking for a PS revision agency, find a foreigner to sit next to you and revise sentence by sentence, because there are often cases where foreigners simply don't understand what you mean, so you can explain it to him next to him, and then he suddenly realizes and starts to revise.

39.PS has no title, just indicate PS, applicant, school and major in the header (CV, WS and WE are the same).

40.PS sentences must be concise, so deleting any sentence and any word will affect the original expression. The choice of words can be considered through thesaurus.

4 1. All files are new.

Roman font 12, double-spaced. PS is generally controlled within two pages. Don't secretly modify data such as indentation. The professor has more than n standard documents. You will know whether you have changed them.

biographical notes

42.

Personally, I think several factors are important (liberal arts, especially law school): CV & gtWS & gtGT & gtGPA & gtPS (including us) & gtRL. You need to use GPA to prove your general learning ability, GT to prove your English level and standardized test ability, CV to cover your professional achievements in this university for three years, and WS to show the specific level of professional research. Show personality factors from another angle with PS, outline another image of the applicant from other aspects with RL, and show your sincerity and personal needs in applying for this school with WE. These things add up to a whole. Even the relatively least important RL requires a lot of effort (see point 2 1). Therefore, in a word, none of these indicators is unimportant and must be taken seriously with all one's strength. Only by doing everything possible to be impeccable can we get good results.

43.

CV is very important, because it can know the general level of the applicant in the shortest time, so CV is the first thing the professor looks at after the report card and GT. But a good resume needs three years of long-term efforts and accumulation (reference point 18).

44. Find a professional resume and don't refer to those awesome professors. Those are too awesome to compare with. You can refer to the resumes of recent American graduates, with professional words and formal format.

45.

With the foundation and CV model of 18, it is enough to list these experiences. Pay attention to the optimization of words. Finally, it is best to attach photos of various activities, awards and papers, which will greatly increase the authenticity and intuition (if you apply for law school, you should attach them to make the professor feel that you have a good habit of attaching evidence to everything).

46.

Resume should be written in detail and well documented. For example, the internship should include the work unit, address, telephone number, boss and contact information, work content, working hours in a week, and reasons for leaving the company. Write down the winning awards, including the organizer, the places where several people participated, the instructors and their contact information, the content and title of the competition, and the photos of the awards are attached to the last page.

47. It doesn't matter whether it can be faked.

48.

The application materials should be consistent. For example, what is written in CV is that a paper has been published, and then it can be said that the English version of the paper is attached to WS; Or CV said I participated in a professional activity, and PS said what leap/change has taken place in my career interest since I participated in this activity. This will make your application look more comprehensive and real.

49. If there are many CV pictures, pay attention to capacity compression, otherwise the online application cannot be uploaded.

50. The choice of paper and printing shops is also important. It is recommended to use 120G paper to find the best printing shop. Photos and awards in color resumes should be printed clearly and look very textured.

Recommendation letters

5 1. Ordinary schools need three letters of recommendation, two for academic professors and one for internship units. Something to prove: 1. Academic ability.

2. Learning ability in English environment. If you have a professor Niu who offers bilingual courses, or an internship boss who handles foreign affairs, it is a godsend, so act now ~!

52. The recommendation letter should not be vague, but should have concrete and true examples. Instead of doing it yourself, it is better to invent an example so that others can have evidence to write it.

53. An intern needs a letter of recommendation. If there is no way, it is best not to let the company open. It's very, very troublesome. It's not usually opened. Just ask a good colleague from the internship unit to open it for you.

Foreigners generally don't write letters of recommendation casually.

55. Letters of recommendation are often rejected, especially by the public. Expressing frustration is to practice the ability to fight. .

56.

On the envelope of the recommendation letter, in addition to the signature of the recommender, you should also write down which school you want to give it to, the name and signature of the applicant, the major you applied for and the online application number (these should also be written on the envelope of the transcript). Otherwise, if you drop the envelope, you won't know who it belongs to if you pick it up.

Writing sample

57.WS is very, very important. And it is very important, because it is the best embodiment of academic ability.

58.

Any professional-related article can be used as WS. At that time, I handed in three W's, a full-mark small comment on the school's mid-term homework, an outline of agency opinions written during my internship in a law firm, and the original text of a paper. I can't say how good my writing is, but I promise that these real academic things are much more useful than your ten sweet words of PS.

59.

Be sure to find an American to modify it. Because many Chinese-style logical expressions simply don't work in their eyes, even many interesting and thoughtful articles written in Chinese have reached Americans. Because of the different cultural concepts and ideologies, they feel that there is no need to discuss (especially political and legal articles).

60. Papers to be published must indicate that they are original documents rather than published versions and have not been edited or modified by others.

6 1. Please refer to the fifth edition of APA for the writing format of the paper.

62.WS should be as concise as PS, revised and read repeatedly, and realize the rigor of logic.

63.

If WS is very long, you can send a secret message asking if you can modify the font size and line spacing and print on both sides. At that time, you will also hear different little secrets' attitudes towards WS. Some will say yes, some will not accept papers, some will say that it is best to choose one (of course, I sent three papers together in the end), and the best will say that I only read the documents specified by them, and the rest will be discarded. . Finally, sure enough, I waited for this house.

List. .

Why prose?

64. This is optional, but very useful. Why essay writing is the reason for choosing a school, such as why.

Yale is the reason for choosing Yale. PS, after all, the number of words is limited, and the reason for choosing a school is only to write a short paragraph. If you are afraid of some incompleteness, you can open another us. This also ensures that PS is a purely personal statement, all schools are unified, and our school has different distinctive features.

65.

If you want to write WE well, first go to the websites of various schools to dig. General professional departments have brochures. This is definitely a good thing. We must study it carefully, find out the characteristics that the school is proud of, and then cater to it. For example, if a school says that its book collection ranks third in the United States and it often holds international academic seminars, then we can write, "I am very interested in China's legal culture from the perspective of the United States, because the United States itself has a mature legal accumulation and a completely different cultural background. One of the reasons why I chose your school is that it has a large collection of books, so I can certainly find out the views of various universities and schools on China's legal culture, and I can also hear the thoughts of students from all over the world at the international student conference, which will be of great help to me when I return to China to deal with foreign clients and foreign-related cases. .

66. Schools generally publish specialized courses, so you must study them and find out the courses you are interested in (such as the law course in China in the previous example).

67.

Don't write that you are chosen because your GT requirements are low, even if you are chosen because you are one of the few schools that value not only grades. If you have a low GT, don't mention it in the whole application unless it is reflected in the GT report. There is no need to apologize or feel inferior, just try your best to show other aspects.

Application process

68.

Buy n better plastic file bags and folders, one for each school, and put them in the file bag when sending the checklist to each school. Write your name on the file bag and send it with the file bag.

69. Don't use a stapler to bind more than one page of material. It will be troublesome to open the secret again. Just use a paper clip.

70. The secret meeting will first classify the applicants' materials according to their GT and GPA scores, and the professors will review them.

7 1. You usually go to China Bank to draw an international draft. If there is any change in the school you choose, you can reject the manuscript, and you should bring the application form filled out at that time. The staff there are generally good, too.

72.

According to school regulations, some application fees can be waived. Students with excellent grades can try. When writing to give up your application, you should indicate your financial difficulties, GPA and GT scores, so that the school can believe that you are an excellent talent and let you apply for free.

73. If the GT is not high, you can ask for an interview on your own initiative. During the interview, I emphasized that the signal was not good, which paved the way for the huge pardon behind me.

74.

Prepare two paper bags next to the computer, one for single-sided waste paper and the other for double-sided waste paper. A lot of paper will be wasted in the application, and it is often typed out to see that a word is wrong and then typed again. Once you find something wrong, put it in the waste paper bag immediately, otherwise there will be so many similar papers that you don't even know which one is the text.

75. Issue a certificate of real estate and send it with the materials, especially for the application of American gold plating specialty during the economic depression.

76. Write a cover list.

77.

Don't send the first copy to the school you want to go to most, because in the process of sending it, you will find that there may be many small mistakes in your materials and correct them one by one (of course, awesome people can make any details completely correct without correcting them). Compared with the last one, the first one is simply a mouse full of holes.

78. If you hand-deliver it to the courier company, you will have a magical sense of destiny ~ kiss your materials and enjoy this wonderful feeling!

79.

Remember to check online two or three working days after the express delivery, send the signer, and send an email to the school to ask if you have received the materials. Please note that sometimes an unimportant person may sign for it. These materials have been kept in a corner of the door room and have never been brought to trial!

If the email school doesn't return (usually busy at this time), you can call directly and make sure that you have entered their system, so that you can wait for news with peace of mind.

80. Don't rush to prepare the document, but be sure to revise it carefully until you are satisfied.

8 1.

It is best to send it before the end of the year, not later than mid-February (if the deadline is later). The mailing time does not affect the admission in the morning and evening, but it will affect the scholarship. After the general scholarship is issued, it is gone.

82. Those schools that closed in May and June are simply unreliable, and visas are too late.

83. Try to pay online for online application. Once you pay, the computer will automatically use your registered online information.

The school (if you don't pay the money, you can't see the uploaded things) will delay several weeks if you need to manually debug the system (think about how many application materials are reviewed every day and how many people are delayed for several weeks ~ ~

I sent a draft to an online application school and waited for more than a week, but I didn't see the success of the online application. In the end, I was afraid that it was too late, so I paid the online banking again, and the online banking application was successful in one second. I searched for more than a week and finally returned the manuscript.

84. Don't try to avoid fees, regardless of application fees or ETS delivery fees. Nowadays, many schools will not rush you when they find that you are evading fees, waiting for you to automatically pass the deadline. It's not worth it for this little money.

Admission and defense stage

85. In most cases, I don't know my weight before I get the results, and I begin to swell after I am admitted.

86. School admissions are generally concentrated in March, mostly in the middle and late March, but also in April. Some of them were sent earlier, and the results of the first batch may be available by the end of the year or January.

87. If a courier is sent, it is usually rejected or waited.

List has only a thin piece of paper, while Offer and AD are accompanied by many forms and school materials, which are relatively heavy. So what's the result? You don't even have to open the envelope, just weigh it.

88. Most schools will work hard after being admitted. If you ask a small question, you will ask "May I take it that you accept our proposal?".

Admit it? "

89. Most rejected schools will ask you where you are going, or why not choose their school and let them improve.

90. Don't ask the secretary of the rejected school to help you advise which school to go to.

Before 9 1. 4 15, the dust must be settled and the school must be decided.

92. Schools that don't plan to go are rejected early, and RP is accumulated to make room for students behind.

93. If the property certificate is given, the school will send the I20 visa form directly, and the rejected school will send it back.

94. Don't say, "A school like so-and-so only gives half a prize, and it's not worth going.". The evaluation professors in every school are read by countless people. They can tell at a glance whether you are worth paying.

95. Don't say that a school is very watery this year, and there are people like Shen Bijin. You know how much you have paid, and take care of the emotions of students who have not been admitted.

96. If you are accepted, you should also keep in touch properly, and you may give scholarships in the future (for schools selected and accepted by separate scholarships).

97. The waiting list may have survived by writing letters to express continuous concern.

98. There are many admissions, and you can use these admissions to force awards to individual schools.

99. Remember to thank those who have helped you, pay a return visit to the teacher, be kind to colleagues and friends, and inform them as soon as you get the first admission. Without their help, you would not be here today.

100.

Studying abroad is a very lucky thing. When the plane landed, I saw a brand-new country and a strange city under my eyes. What kind of passion and excitement it was. Good luck to all the prepared students!