Students who apply for studying in the United States know that American universities, especially famous American universities, mainly refer to students' test scores, language scores, comprehensive quality and so on. The difference between American famous schools and American ordinary universities is that American famous schools are looking for reasons to admit students, while American ordinary universities are looking for reasons to refuse students. The difference between them is even greater. Generally speaking, the admission process of famous American schools is like this:
Ivy League and other famous American schools basically have similar operation steps, except Harvard and MIT.
Harvard University Admission Committee carefully reads any application materials, no matter how the students fail. They review tens of thousands of application materials every year, and each material takes more than 30 minutes. The reason is simple: rich! Money means time and energy. That is the reality. MIT is different. As the base camp of technology pioneers, they use computers to read application materials and grade them. People, only used to check whether the computer is wrong. Other schools are not so awesome. They do manual labor in three steps:
Step 1: The approximate scores of the first batch of examiners. According to the above admission principles, applicants from famous American universities are divided into three categories. One is likely to be admitted. The second category is likely to be admitted. The third category is unlikely to be accepted.
Step 2: The second batch of examiners read carefully. The application materials of the most likely famous American schools are sent directly to the admission committee for discussion. Three types of unlikely applicants will be rejected directly if the second batch of examiners have no objection (about 10- 15%). The remaining 60%-70% are all possible and have been deliberated repeatedly. Look at the teacher's recommendation letter, high school grades and standard test scores, extracurricular activities. If it seems that you can't decide, then go to the third step.
Step 3: Read the college compositions of the applicants from famous American universities, and see the students' writing level, grammar and vocabulary, and students' personality. See if you can read the following qualities from the students' compositions: passion, passion, leadership, motivation, determination and integrity. If you can show one of them, you will get extra points. It is said that these four qualities are the most important things of famous schools. They lie on the application materials of students, looking for such people. And composition is really important to this extent. If it is good in other aspects but not outstanding enough, then the composition may be a game of chess that determines your admission.
It can be seen from the detailed admission process of American famous schools that the application materials are very important in the application for studying in the United States, especially the study abroad documents, which are the most concerned part of American famous schools. They hope to see if you have all the qualities to study in a famous American university through your materials. Therefore, students who are going to apply for prestigious universities in the United States must carefully prepare their study abroad documents.
Through the interpretation of the admission procedures of American universities, I believe that for many people who plan to go to the United States for graduate studies, everyone will find their own starting point when choosing American universities.