The application methods and skills of each step are introduced one by one according to the chronological order of the application process.
First contact an American university and send the first demand letter.
After deciding the admission time, you should send a letter to American universities 9- 1 1 month before admission to ask for application materials and forms. The first contact should broaden your options. Generally, you should send this letter to 50-80 different schools and ask them to send back the application form, scholarship application form and the introduction of the applied major and school. Most universities will send these materials back immediately after receiving the letter. There will be some materials about scholarship setting, school size, school qualifications, professional teachers and student service facilities. After receiving the reply from American universities, you should make a general choice. The main selection criteria can be determined according to different people's application interests. However, students applying for scholarships should mainly pay attention to the types of scholarships set by the applying schools, the types of scholarships that international students can apply for, and whether they can achieve full scholarship funding (comparing the total amount of scholarships that all international students can apply for with the total cost of each academic year, schools with a total amount of scholarships higher than the total cost are likely to apply for full scholarships). Is there any restriction on TOEFL and GRE(GMAT) scores when the school applies for scholarships? For example, some famous schools require TOEFL score of 600, or THAN score of 200 or above, GRE score of 438+0,900 or above, and the scores of language (spoken language) and mathematics (quantification) should not be lower than 65,438+0,654,38+0,000. If a school clearly stipulates the conditions for applying for scholarships, it will generally not lower the requirements. Most schools don't have strict score restrictions on scholarship applications, but only have certain TOEFL scores. These schools are relatively easy to apply for and will have more room for development.
2. Scholarships assessed according to needs include: ① government work-study subsidy, ② government Perkins loan, ③ government Stanford loan and ④ health loan. Scholarships assessed according to academic performance include: ① postgraduate scholarships, each of which is between $65,438+00,000 and $65,438+04,000, and tuition and fees are exempted; (2) California Graduate Scholarships, with each grant ranging from $700 to $6,940. (3) Norman Top Scholarship Fund exempts 50% of tuition fees; (4) Graduate teaching assistants have subsidies, each of which includes room and board, tuition fees and a certain salary subsidy. ⑤ It is a grant, and each grant varies according to different departments, but tuition fees, miscellaneous fees and medical insurance fees can be exempted. Some departments will also pay the winners a certain amount of cash as their personal consumption expenses. In addition, there are graduate teaching assistants and research grants. Every department in this school has teaching assistants and research grants. Students who receive this kind of financial aid can not only be exempted from their tuition fees of 8- 12 credits, but also get salaries ranging from $5,449 to $65,438+$02,587 per academic year. After we get the above information, we need to see which of these scholarship programs are allowed for international students to apply. By inquiring about their "qualifications", we can know that the first demand-based scholarship cannot be applied by China students (international students), and the projects that international students can apply for are the first, third, fourth and fifth sub-items of the second and third major items-research aid and teaching aid funds. The total annual expenditure of USC is $22,396 per person, so the total amount of scholarships that these China students can apply for far exceeds the total annual expenditure, so USC is the school that may apply for the full prize. Applicants can apply for all these funded projects at the same time. As long as they apply for any one or several of them, they will get a full bonus. In addition to some personal factors, when choosing a school, we should also look at the proportion of international students. Many international students are enrolled by scholarships, and schools with many international students are more likely to apply for scholarships.
American universities will require applicants to provide one or more standard test scores when evaluating their scholarships. China's current standard exams in the United States are:
1, TOEFL (English as a foreign language test)
2. GRE (Postgraduate Entrance Examination)
3. GMAT (Graduate Management Entrance Examination)
4. LSAT (Law School Entrance Examination)
5. TSE (Oral English Test)
You should take the necessary exams as early as possible. TOEFL is valid for 2 years, while GRE, GMAT and LSAT are valid for 5 years. However, it should be noted that GRE, GMAT and LSAT should strive to become popular. If the first score is not satisfactory, ETS will send the second exam to the school when it sends the results, and the school often takes the average score of these two scores rather than the highest score as consideration. When issuing TOEFL scores, only the latest ones will be issued. Therefore, if the TOEFL score is not satisfactory, you can take the second and third exams, but GRE, GMAT and LSAT had better strive for high scores for the first time.
Third, prepare the application materials:
The preparation of application materials is very complicated, and it is not sloppy at all. The whole set of application materials includes: the filled-in application form for admission sent by the school, the filled-in application forms for various scholarships and financial proof forms, copies of TOEFL and other necessary test results (ETS also needs to send results); Two or three letters of recommendation from professors; Two transcripts in Chinese and English; Resume; Reading plan; Academic certificate.
When preparing a set of application materials, we should take it seriously. Often, an excellent recommendation letter or an excellent reading plan plays a decisive role in applying for scholarship funding. On the contrary, reading the general idea of the plan alone may lead to the failure of the whole application. The following is how to prepare these materials and the problems that should be paid attention to.
1, application form
2. Letter of recommendation
3. Resume
4. Personal statement
5. Transcripts and academic certificates
6. TOEFL and GRE(GMAT) transcripts