How to make a study plan for American graduate students? Before applying for American graduate students, applicants must first make a good plan for American graduate students. So, how do college students make personal plans for graduate students?
Freshman stage:
College students should draw a blueprint for studying abroad after four years according to their own personality characteristics, professional direction and economic ability from the first year of their freshman year. At the same time, we should learn every course well, because most universities have high requirements for students' undergraduate grades. At this time, even if the result is not ideal, it can be rebuilt.
Sophomore stage:
Take part in more social activities, because "high scores and low abilities"
This phenomenon is quite common, and overseas universities also attach great importance to the comprehensive quality of applicants during the four-year university period. Therefore, students should try their best to accumulate practical experience in the process of study, such as usual club activities and teachers' evaluation and recommendation, which are indispensable factors for entering famous overseas schools. If you apply for a master's degree and an undergraduate degree, you need to study professional courses harder. If you plan to change your major, you can take more courses related to the selected major, which is also counted as the content of the postgraduate stage planning.
Junior year:
Preparation materials+TOEFL or IELTS and gre or gmat
. We should make good use of the summer vacation of sophomore and junior, choose different foreign language courses according to our actual situation, and finish TOEFL or IELTS test at the latest in the summer vacation of junior. After successfully passing the exam, students can carefully revise and improve their blueprint for studying abroad, prepare to start formal application for studying abroad, and make a reasonable personal plan for graduate students.
Senior three:
The last link of American postgraduate planning, study abroad application+visa. As soon as the senior year starts, you can officially start applying for studying abroad. Specifically, it also includes asking professors to write letters of recommendation and start submitting visa applications.
In addition, in view of some questions frequently asked by students, corresponding suggestions are given for students' reference:
1, GPA is higher. It is often found that these two kinds of students. One is that the GPA of freshman and sophomore is very low, with more than 60-70 points, but the grades are getting better and better from junior year.
Up to more than 80 points. But the four-year GPA is still less than 80 points. There is another kind of students who think that they have decided to go abroad anyway and spend all their time and energy on English training.
Ignore the grades in all subjects, and the average grade point average drops below 80. Even though their TOEFL and GRE/GMAT scores are good, they are very low.
GPA makes their applications less competitive and successful than those with high GPA. As we all know, the minimum score for American graduate students is 3.0 (equivalent to 80 points), less than 3.0 points.
This is not good for application. If the GPA is lower than 2.5(75 points), it is difficult to hope to be admitted to graduate school. During the undergraduate period, we must go all out to compare the average level of universities.
GPA is above 80, the higher the better.
2. The professional background should be clear. If you want to go to the United States for a master's degree, you must find out early whether the major you want to apply for requires an undergraduate background.
And what courses you must have taken. This is very important for postgraduate admission, and some American universities simply don't consider admission for students without undergraduate professional background. In China,
Many undergraduates change their majors when applying for graduate students in the United States, which is completely different from or even completely unrelated to their undergraduate majors. A student of human resources in science wants to go to the United States to study for a master's degree in accounting.
However, the undergraduate has not taken any accounting-related courses and has no work experience, so it is almost impossible to be admitted to a better university in the United States.
3. Prepare the materials clearly. Whether you decide DIY
Or find an intermediary to help you apply for studying in the United States. During my junior year, I must spend enough time to understand the admission standards and application procedures of American universities, and what application materials need to be prepared. As we all know, you should apply for studying in the United States one year in advance.
If the junior doesn't know what school he wants to enroll in, how can the senior do well? However, there are more than 4000 universities in America.
Which one should you choose? This is a time-consuming thing, and even Americans have to find someone to consult when they go to college themselves. Even if your English is good,
Speed reading may not have this ability. If you are still struggling to learn English and take the TOEFL in your junior year,
You obviously don't have this ability. Then you must find a trustworthy study abroad agency for help.
4. "get" the referee in advance. Reference background. It is best to have real contact with yourself, so it is meaningful to recommend new content. For example, people in the industry who have done research or teaching in related majors in the United States, or have worked as mentors for projects together, and so on. Write letters of recommendation for yourself;
5. Personal statements are personalized. Personal statements should not be too long, just list two or three examples, highlight your personality, and don't be stereotyped;
6. Pay attention to the deadline. Need to know whether the school you apply for requires all relevant materials to be sent before the deadline;
7. "Plus points" for domestic certificates. If the certificates obtained in the relevant professional fields in China can also be presented to American schools as their own application advantages, they will get different points according to the different levels of certificates obtained.