I. Application conditions
1. Education
To apply for a doctorate in the United States, you must first have a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from a university before you can apply for a doctorate. Of course, this is uncertain. There are also some excellent undergraduates who directly skip graduate students and apply for doctoral degrees. In this case, the applicant must have sufficient research experience and background, and have made outstanding achievements in related fields, and have completed most of the courses at the master's level by himself, with the same academic ability.
2.GPA condition
To apply for a doctorate in the United States, the GPA must be above 3.0. If you want to apply for a full scholarship, your GPA must be above 3.5.
3.GRE/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT and TOEFL scores
Although many American universities claim that the requirements for students' test scores are not particularly high, with the increase of the number of applicants year by year, the better the students' grades are, the more advantageous they are in terms of learning resources and scholarship applications. Therefore, everyone must make good use of the time in winter and summer vacations, carefully prepare for exams and get the best results.
TOEFL is only set for students whose mother tongue is not English, and usually needs to reach 100, so it is safer.
GMAT is used to apply for business schools in the United States, LSAT is used to apply for a doctorate in law from American law schools, and MCAT is used to apply for medical schools in the United States. Each college has different requirements for students' grades, but it is safer for students' grades to exceed the minimum admission score 10.
4. High scientific research ability
Before applying, the applicant should know the specific situation of the major and school, determine the project he is applying for, and find a more suitable tutor.
If you decide to study PhD, you must seize all research opportunities and strengthen your research and academic background at the undergraduate level. As an undergraduate, research projects, especially national research projects, are difficult to get research opportunities, but such research experience is actually very important for applying for doctors and doctoral awards. After contacting certain professional courses, the applicant can make clear his research direction, and try to contact higher-level research institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences through his own school tutor to find research opportunities.
The most obvious and intuitive way to improve the research background and academic background is to publish papers. It is not easy for undergraduates to publish papers with a certain level independently. The safest and most convenient way is to publish a paper jointly with your tutor, or as the second and third author. Although this kind of paper is not as weighty as independent publication, it is the best choice for most applicants considering its feasibility. In addition, the research background and academic background can be strengthened through academic international exchanges and participation in international conferences.
5. supporting documents
Documents generally include personal statements and letters of recommendation. Personal statement is a platform to fully display your own advantages, but you should also pay attention to the word number requirements when writing, preferably no more than 800 words, and elaborate with your own examples. Never write thousands of words in great length, because the professor has no time to read. You can't write everything, what emotional experience, travel experience, and remember that materials unrelated to your major can't be written into your personal statement.
Generally, 2-3 letters of recommendation are enough, and the role of letters of recommendation is more important than personal statement. If you can get letters of recommendation from famous professors at home and abroad or from Fortune 500 companies, it will be of great help to your application and the success rate will be greatly improved.
Step 6 magnetize
When applying for a doctorate, I will mainly use porcelain sets. Porcelain sets can be with assistant professors and professors, and they can communicate by phone and email to share their thoughts and opinions on applying for majors. It's best to have an ideological collision with the professor, so that your full scholarship is basically gone.
Second, the application materials
1. Resume/resume
Applying for a doctorate in the United States generally requires a special resume. In English, some are called CV and others are called Resume, which are very similar. Generally, resumes of job hunting and internship are called resumes, which are generally short, 1-2 pages; To apply for scientific research and find an academic job, you need CV, which is generally longer, more than 6 pages. Domestic applications for master's and doctoral degrees can be combined, with a length of 1-2 pages, focusing on academic, scientific research and work-related activities or contents.
2. Personal statement SOP/PS
Personal statement: biased towards the applicant's growth, experience, sentiment and experience. Purpose statement: more inclined to the applicant's professional skills and potential. Some schools require both PS and SP, some schools only require one article, and some schools require both.
The basic content of writing is your summary of your past research, how you came up with the theme to study, and the general idea of foreign research. You can ask some questions about your future research and explain what the school you want to apply for can offer you.
3.？ Copy of award certificate or honor
All certificates need to be translated into English. If it is an honor in the school, both the Chinese copy and the English translation need to be stamped with the official seal of the school.
4.？ Certificate of deposit issued by the bank
The amount of the deposit certificate should cover all the expenses of the students in the first year, with savings.
5.？ Copy of personal passport page
As individual schools want and apply for American doctoral materials, it is best to prepare in advance and apply for passports in advance.
6. Three letters of recommendation
(1) Letter of recommendation from school leaders, focusing on the applicant's personality, comprehensive quality, ability and specialty, comprehensive performance in and out of class, etc.
(2) Tutor's recommendation letter, generally choose the head teacher, or the liberal arts teacher or the science teacher. Because the teacher is your teacher, he will know you more carefully, if he can represent the academic appraisal of liberal arts or science.
(3) celebrity recommendation letters or comprehensive recommendation letters, it is best to find a weighty public figure to help write, which will improve the admission rate.