How should I spend my summer vacation? Lazy people are probably asleep, eating and drinking, and smart people have already planned it! Of course, I would like to take this opportunity to add value to myself!
Many friends around me choose to be overseas volunteers. Overseas volunteer program provides students with an opportunity to realize their self-worth and communicate with foreign friends. It's great to take part in such a project during the summer vacation, especially if you have plans to study abroad.
Why do you say that?
In order to stand out in the increasingly fierce application for studying abroad, students should pay attention to the background improvement and add highlights to the application documents. Participating in overseas volunteer programs is one of the ways to enhance the background. So what is the difference between the background promotion of different majors, including what content, will be introduced below.
Background promotion is generally divided into hardware background promotion and software background promotion.
Hardware background mainly includes school (major), GPA, GT score, SAT score and so on. This part of the background, as a stepping stone to the application, largely determines which level of school application requirements you can meet. Only when each part gets high scores can it be used as a bargaining chip for sprinting to a prestigious school.
Software background mainly includes campus activities, competitions, research, laboratory projects, papers and so on.
In order to better understand, the following will list several methods of software background upgrade for your reference, including but not limited to the following methods.
Students applying for finance major can improve their software background through the following ways:
Participate in internships or work in financial enterprises or banks, including overseas internships or domestic internships, and accumulate financial practical experience;
Participate in campus activities to improve leadership and communication skills;
Participate in various business competitions and entrepreneurial competitions to improve professional skills.
Students applying for social work can upgrade their software background through the following channels:
Participate in volunteer activities organized at home and abroad and accumulate practical experience of volunteers;
Conduct various studies on social phenomena or social problems to deepen professional understanding;
Participate in campus activities and competitions to improve team assistance and communication skills.
Students applying for computer science can improve their software background by the following ways:
Participate in laboratory projects;
Participate in the internship or work of network companies or departments, and accumulate computer practical experience;
Participate in professional competitions,
Publish a paper or apply for a patent;
Consider participating in overseas exchange programs when economy and time permit.
Your background improvement results will be presented in your application documents, so that the admissions officer has reason to believe that you are interested in and prepared for the knowledge you want to learn in the future, which will be helpful for your next study career.
When our consultant teachers help students make applications, they will encounter such a situation from time to time: the students' academic performance is very good, but their background, internship and practical activities are blank. If you submit the application document like this, it will be easily deleted.
In view of each applicant's different application background, everyone should combine their own actual situation and carry out targeted background enhancement.
Finally, I would like to remind you that once you decide to study abroad, you should plan ahead so that you can have enough time to prepare your grades. You also need to actively participate in various competitions and extracurricular activities, cultivate your abilities in all aspects, including organization and leadership, as well as the ability to communicate with all kinds of people, and increase your chances of getting your favorite offer.