First of all, about the ranking of American study agents
First of all, the author wants to emphasize that in the past two years, no official ranking of American study agents has been published. It is understood that the latest official ranking was jointly released by CITIC Bank and Nielsen in 20 16. At that time, many institutions on the list no longer focused on studying in the United States today. However, many subsequent rankings on the internet are actually advertisements, which are disclosed in the article "The Secret of Ranking of American Study Agents".
The picture is taken from the evaluation index of study abroad agencies.
Second, in recent years, the development of American study abroad agencies has been influenced by Sino-US relations in recent years, and many institutions no longer only pay attention to the United States. An institution that can really stay and continue to be an American institution is an institution that can truly stand the test of the market. So time and market have screened out more professional institutions in the United States.
At present, there are only five companies focusing on studying in the United States. Through the third-party data research institutions, we conducted an understanding survey on these five American study agencies, and scored them from multiple dimensions and specialities. Please see the figure below for details:
Third, how to choose the American study agent 1, and whether it only focuses on studying in one country? If there are many countries, how many employees are there in the US department? How many students does each teacher have to take?
Because I am dedicated, I am a professional, so I try to find an organization that only focuses on one country in the United States. Of course, if you have to choose the institutions that all countries apply for, you must ask each applicant teacher how many students (all students) each year. Generally, an experienced application teacher will take 30 students every year, the most. Consultants should not ask the intermediary how many students each teacher takes each year at the beginning, because the answer is not objective enough. The author suggests that we can collect some data on the number of students and teachers from the intermediary, and then work it out in our minds.
2. How to ensure that teachers can accurately understand the advantages of students and give high-quality application positioning?
On the one hand, this problem is to examine the professionalism of teachers, on the other hand, to examine the advantages of study abroad companies, and on the other hand, to examine whether the institutions are suitable for them. It is worth noting that many intermediaries exaggerated the ranking of schools that students can apply for in the early stage in order to sign in students. In fact, students had better know what they are doing. The competition for studying in the United States is very fierce. We don't want to be extravagant in applying for a school beyond our ability, but we can apply for a school within our ability. Again, the competition is too fierce!
Can you help improve students' background?
In fact, many institutions studying abroad will answer this question, and it is true. However, students should consider whether the background enhancement project recommended by the intermediary has gold content. Don't go without gold content.
4. How to ensure the excellence of documents?
Documents are the most important part of applying for a prestigious school. This question is to know how overseas institutions create documents, and is there any evidence to prove everything the intermediary said about document creation.
5. Can I "refuse to record arguments"?
Here, I still have to come up with that sentence again: the competition for applying to a famous American school is too fierce! The author thinks that the difficulty is no less than the college entrance examination, but the application for studying abroad in the United States is not only based on basic grades like the college entrance examination, but also attaches great importance to students' software background, which is actually not very advantageous for China students who have been focusing on exam-oriented education since childhood. Moreover, although the number of applicants to famous American universities is far less than the number of college entrance examinations, the admission rate of schools is very low. Take UCLA, which ranked 20th in USNEWS in 2020, as an example. In the autumn of 20 1 10000, the number of applicants exceeded 65438, but the admission rate was only 12.4%. It is no exaggeration to say that almost all the students who apply to sprint colleges have been rejected, so an institution that knows how to refuse to argue is still very important.
6. Is it different from other institutions?
At present, the convergence of products in the study abroad market is too serious, and every institution is saying that it has an admissions officer and an overseas tutor. But in fact, there will still be differences between teachers and services. In addition, the more institutions with their own characteristics and advantages in this environment, the more worthy of choice.