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Meiling student: Shen
I am currently studying in the School of Management of Yale University, and graduated from Guanghua School of Management of Peking University with a bachelor's degree, majoring in finance. She went to exchange at Queen's University in Canada and worked as a research assistant at Harvard University.
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Worked as an intern in Apple, Eliot Consulting, Bodak Consulting, Queen of Canadian Business Information, Guotai Junan Securities, Industrial Securities and Tencent. During the application season, I also received a master's degree in social policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in management from HKUST University.
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Why did I get the admission notice from Yale Management?
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The first principle of studying abroad planning is early, the earlier the better, and never too early.
I didn't finish the whole standardized test before my senior year. But if I prepare for GRE in March of my junior year, give TOEFL scores in the summer vacation from junior year to senior year, and start writing documents at the beginning of my senior year, it will be relatively elegant.
In fact, there is no fixed timetable, so according to your personal situation and needs, the sooner the better, don't delay, because delaying later means that you will miss some DDL and make your mind unbalanced.
The stress and psychological imbalance brought by time are something you need to consider, so prepare as soon as possible if possible. Anyway, sooner or later, you will get a knife, that is, long pain is better than short pain.
If you really want to go abroad, you should overcome your laziness and make preparations in advance.
I can scare you. If you put things off, the chances of getting bad results or even gaps will double.
So you'd better get ready in advance and don't delay. When you have finished all kinds of application exams, you will actually know what kind of school you want to apply for, elegant application.
Meiling will also help you make a plan, the teacher will urge you, and then help you, and everyone will finish it together.
There is a standard for internship, that is, doing practical things is greater than going to a big company.
Of course, it would be perfect if you could be in a famous place and then do something fancy or important and learn something real.
But if you just go to a big company and touch the fish and learn nothing, you might as well go to a small place and really learn something.
Internship should be meaningful, at least when you are interviewing. Interview is telling stories, and it is very difficult to make up stories out of nothing.
Especially if you make it up in front of the admissions officer, it is 100% problematic and meaningless.
In addition, there are not many companies that foreigners can learn about in China. If these companies can't go, it doesn't matter how big the company is.
Just tell the interviewer what kind of company you are internship in, and it will be OK. He has no such prejudice. So I think everyone's internship must really make a difference.
Of course, it goes without saying that you must do something related to your major application. So there is no better way and shortcut except to do it in a down-to-earth manner.
I think this is one of the most important help Meiling can give you, and it is also a very important application process.
In this piece, I can really thank Meiling, because in this piece, my tutors, including many of Meiling's teachers, have given me great help and helped me organize the ideas of the document over and over again.
They change direction for different schools and polish these things every day. It was really exhausting because I applied for many projects at that time.
Beautiful teachers are very dedicated, and their help is very direct and effective. So what I want to say is that you really need to make more use of your tutor's advice and help in paperwork. This is the first point.
The second point is that you should write a story based on your own experience. In fact, this document is a story. This story is probably called who you are, where you went to school, what you did and what you want to do in the future.
The beginning and end of this story are there, and what do you think is in the middle.
Why should I demonstrate from beginning to end why I am suitable for such a school? Because you must come to the conclusion in the process of argument, I need to go to school here, I am suitable for the school's education model, and I have the ability to accomplish these things. Such a document is a meaningful document.
This document is not a copy of your resume. The most important thing is that you should explain the starting point, process and end point, and the result is to tell the admissions officer that I was born for this school project.
Everything I did from the beginning was actually for this, how suitable I am for your school, how good I will be when I go to this school, and what I can bring to this school. These things should be reflected in the document, not just how many awards I won, what classes I took, what I practiced, and what I wanted to go to this school. These things are meaningless, because everyone can write.
So the most important thing in telling a story is to be clear in logic. When I say the logic of starting point, intermediate link and ending point, it must be based on your own memories, including how to string all your materials together and then communicate with your tutor more. You must convince yourself of this story. If you don't believe yourself, don't give it to the school. You are bound to fail.
I can also tell my friends more, and the most important thing is to test my story.
Because I applied for other majors, including statistics, I am not without quantitative experience, but my story still has a certain gap with this major, and there are indeed many loopholes in logic, so I was successfully rejected. This fact tells me that you can go to a good school without your good background.
Foreigners really value whether you come or not. Are you suitable for this school? Are you sending me your ps in groups?
They still attach great importance to this matter, because there is no shortage of students, and they really want you to help you, not just give you a degree, so this must be thought clearly.
Because hard materials can actually reach the standard in the end, but not everyone can tell their own stories well.
How to manage emotions? The solution is to prepare in advance.
If you don't do anything at the beginning of your senior year, I'm not saying that your application is not good. Many of my classmates didn't start preparing until the beginning of their senior year, and then the application results were very good. I don't deny the possibility, but you must be in pain.
I think it's better for most ordinary people like me to prepare early. If you think about it, why don't you start preparing?
So as long as you think clearly and make a step-by-step arrangement, Meiling will definitely urge everyone to do it as soon as possible, and then hope that everyone will cooperate with the teacher's work.
Because everyone is working in the same direction, problems in any link will actually have an impact on the results.
So when you want Meiling to give you more help, the premise is actually whether you can really work hard. This thing includes early preparation and careful preparation.
There was a time when I was confused about some things. I talked to some of my predecessors, and he told me the same thing. You should think about it. If it really bothers you and is important, you should think about how possible it is.
Possibility a, senior year 10 started to prepare in June, and finally got the favorite offer, which is a result.
Possibility b, senior three begins to prepare. Because I was in a hurry, I got a general proposal, but I can still go.
Possibility c, that is, I started to prepare in my senior year 10, and I wasn't ready yet, and then there was no offer, or I didn't want to go with the offer, so there was a gap. If you think clearly, you will know what the worst result is.
And to be honest, this kind of thing is no big deal, because you already know what the worst result is. So you think of the worst result, and then you accept it, so you can be more calm. This is just my recent feeling. I don't know if it will help. I just want to answer this question.
So for everyone's sake, don't think about these terrible consequences. Prepare early, take exams early, and recite words early.
And I tell you, as long as you start learning, it's really not a difficult thing to learn.
During the two or three months I studied GRE, I felt very happy, because there were still many positive feedbacks, so I still asked everyone to prepare early.
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