With the increasing number of applicants to prestigious universities in the United States, China students and their parents, who have always been good at fighting tough battles and paying attention to test scores, have devoted more energy to TOEFL and SAT, which are compulsory for undergraduate applications in the United States. Students with high scores have emerged in an endless stream, which has also raised the threshold of standardized scores. By comparing the data in recent years, it is found that the admission scores of the top ten have been rising, which also shows that students spend more energy on standardized examinations in order to enter famous schools.

Trend 2: American universities favor students with personality and skills.

Judging from the admission situation in recent years, American elite schools are increasingly favoring students with personality or skills. The interviewer at MIT said: "There are three criteria for the talents that Massachusetts needs. The first is to love technology and like technology; Second, we must have a certain foundation; The third is to have personal characteristics. "

Why are such students more popular with famous American schools? First of all, American universities advocate diverse campus culture and hope to recruit diverse student groups. That is to say, American universities don't want to recruit only those with leadership ability, but also those with research ability. Secondly, students who have a wide range of interests and hobbies and like to think positively are more likely to integrate into American universities and get better development. In addition, compared with test scores, hobbies will affect inspiration and determine creativity, which is also a sign that students can devote themselves to a certain field and succeed in the future. Students with one or more long-term hobbies usually do equally well in their professional studies.

Trend 3: "Real+Unique" documents can impress the admissions officers more.

In the application process of American universities, thesis is the most critical link. Compared with some over-packaged and gaudy documents, the admissions officers of famous American schools appreciate those documents that are personalized enough and true enough. The reasons are as follows: first, the packaging of luxury documents can only be superficial, and it is impossible to exert force on the core; Second, over-packaged documents are often empty and lack long-term planning and representative activities.

The admissions officer of the University of Southern California once pointed out: "It is important to reflect your understanding of the activities, your unique views and your thinking and questioning about reality in the documents, which are valued by American universities."

Trend 4: Add pre-interview links.

In recent years, more and more schools and majors in the United States require interviews, especially science and engineering majors. In the last two years, interviews have been fully played by various institutions. Many schools have embedded interviews in the online application process, that is, VideoQuestion, which can also be called pre-interview. Students can only pop up interview questions when filling in the online application interview steps. The system will let you test the camera and microphone first, and then there will be interview questions. Usually, students have 15 seconds to read the questions, and then they will start taking notes. Students generally need to answer interview questions within 1 minute and upload them to the online application system. But this kind of interview is very random and difficult to prepare.