Analysis on the Admission Requirements of Harvard University and Oxford University
As the two most famous universities in the world, Harvard and Oxford, what should students look like in the eyes of their presidents? "Creativity, extensive interests and independent thinking ability" are essential.
Professor Lu, honorary president of Harvard University, just retired last year after serving as president of Harvard University 10. He believes that first-class students can't be evaluated by numbers alone. For students, it is very important to have a national examination, but it cannot represent all aspects, and there are still many contents to be tested. Like Harvard, it has its own complete student evaluation system in some specific fields.
Lu Dengting said: "The enrollment of Harvard University is very limited, and only 1600 undergraduates are enrolled every year, but there are more than 20,000 applicants, and there are more than 20,000 others. We must stop them from making such an application. " How to become a Harvard student, Professor Lu thinks, should not only study well, but also see if he is creative. If knowledge alone is not enough, whether there is a mysterious spirit and curiosity to explore the unknown are the necessary qualities for first-class students. Secondly, in addition to caring about his own professional field, it depends on whether he cares about other fields and whether he has a wide range of interests.
Therefore, when enrolling students, Harvard needs letters of recommendation from teachers, through which it can learn about students' situation. When enrolling students, we should pass the interview to let the school know them better. In addition, students should submit papers to show their interest in related fields. In addition, if students are not only academically successful, but also have special skills in art, such as playing the violin, enrollment will be more willing to consider.
Professor Lu also introduced that Harvard pays attention to the diversification of students when enrolling students to see if they come from different regions. It is this geographical diversity that provides different experiences for Harvard's student training. Moreover, these students eat and live at school, and they have the opportunity to get in touch with each other. In fact, it is also a learning process. It is this measure that attracts students from more than 100 countries and regions to study at Harvard.
Colin Lucas, president of Oxford University, believes that the most important thing for universities to cultivate talents is to cultivate independent thinking ability. If you just memorize what the teacher teaches, you are not really a good student, because that's just rote learning. Students should have their own unique views on some issues through study. When talking about his impression of China students studying in Oxford, he said that China students are diligent, intelligent and have good organizational skills, but I hope they can have original ideas and independent thinking, which is also the teaching purpose of Oxford University.
When talking about how to evaluate university teachers, Professor Lu believes that Harvard's criteria for selecting teachers depend on whether he has the creative spirit to promote the construction of this discipline. The evaluation of teachers mainly depends on the articles published in periodicals, but the quality of the articles is valued rather than the quantity. Colin Lucas said that the evaluation of Oxford university teachers can be divided into scientific research evaluation and teaching evaluation, in which scientific research evaluation mainly depends on peers, how much research funds he takes, how many articles he publishes, especially how many articles he publishes in core journals; Teaching evaluation is mainly determined by students' evaluation of teachers' courses.