It is expected that from June this year, a new application system for studying in the United States-CAAS will be launched to replace the existing application system that has been in service for more than 40 years.
After the CAAS system is put into use, it will be officially opened to senior high school students in grades 9 to 1 1. At present, 57 1 universities have announced to join the system, including all Ivy League schools such as Harvard and many well-known liberal arts colleges. The new system encourages ninth-grade students to know and get in touch with the application matters in advance, and submit documents that can record their learning process, learning advantages and growth process many times, and requires applicants to submit a work as the final application document. This means that it will become more difficult to apply for American undergraduate universities, especially top universities.
A set of data also shows that since 2008, the number of China students studying in the United States has maintained a double-digit growth, accounting for a quarter of international students in the United States. The outstanding change is that 40% of students go to the United States to study undergraduate courses, surpassing graduate students for the first time, which also makes the application for undergraduate courses in the United States more intense. Although American universities have different standards for selecting students, grades are always a hard standard. Therefore, "exams such as TOEFL and SAT, if the results are super good, should not be generally good."
Adjust the application restrictions for international students.
There are many types of college applications in the United States, including EA, ED, REA and RD. Where EA refers to early action. EA can be divided into two types, one is that you can only apply for one university, and the other is that you can apply for multiple universities. Ed, on the other hand, decided long ago. Applicants can only apply for one school. If they are admitted, they must cancel other schools that have already applied.
In addition to EA and ED, there is also an application called REA, which is mainly aimed at top universities, such as Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University and Princeton University. It is stipulated that students can only apply for one school at the initial stage of application, but they are free to choose whether to join the school after being admitted. There are also regular admission of RD and rolling admission of RO.
Many applicants believe that the earlier they submit their application materials, the better, and the greater their chances of being admitted. It is understood that only 9 of the top 50 universities in the United States do not provide early application. When most famous American universities offer early application, and most people choose to apply in advance, the probability of regular application being accepted will be significantly reduced. In recent years, some top universities have admitted 25% to 50% of the total number of students enrolled in that year when applying in advance, and Ivy League schools have admitted 40% of students when applying in advance. In contrast, the admission rate of formal applications is much lower.
This year, some American universities restricted the applications of EA and ed. For example, Georgetown University requires applicants to submit non-binding EA applications to other universities while applying for Georgetown University, but it is not allowed to submit ed applications to any university at the same time. Boston College requires that students who have submitted bound ed applications to other universities will not be allowed to submit EA applications to Boston College. However, students who submit EA applications to Boston College can apply to other universities at the same time. In addition, MIT has also opened EA applications to international students for the first time since this year.
More American colleges and universities recognize college entrance examination results.
201510/3. The University of San Francisco announced that the college entrance examination will become a standard admission channel from now on. After the college entrance examination, the University of San Francisco will announce the college entrance examination results that meet the interview requirements. The interview will be arranged in China two weeks after the results are announced. Once the interview is passed, China students can study in the United States in August.
The enrollment information released by Northeastern University in the United States also shows that if you are an applicant from a high school outside the United States, the school does not require you to provide sat or act scores. However, if the applicant wants to provide very competitive application materials, the school strongly recommends that the applicant provide at least one of the following exams, including AP exam, IB international preparatory certificate, three difficult IB exam results and exam results recognized by the country or region, which proves that you have the ability to complete high school and enable you to enter the university in your country. In other words, if you are a China applicant, you must provide the results of the college entrance examination.
Brown University also included the "College Entrance Examination" as an admission condition. According to the enrollment news released by official website, the admitted international students must provide their own high school graduation examination results, while China needs to provide college entrance examination results. According to the explanation of the admissions department of Brown University, if students attend ordinary high schools in China instead of the international system, they need to provide the college entrance examination results after admission.
"Criteria" for Overseas Experience or Master's Degree Application
In addition to the changes in the application conditions for undergraduate study abroad, the applications for graduate admission in the fall of 20 16 in major universities in the United States have also been launched. Judging from the application of 20 15, the most remarkable feature is that interdisciplinary subjects have become popular, especially the intersection of science and engineering and business. Domestic science students majoring in mathematics, physics, biology, etc., are more inclined to apply for interdisciplinary subjects such as financial mathematics and data mining. Among engineering majors, the number of students who choose to apply for financial engineering, an interdisciplinary subject between engineering and business, is increasing gradually; The major selection tendency of business is more detailed, focusing on the application of business in a certain field, such as logistics management, fashion management, health management and so on. It is also a business subject that overlaps with science or engineering, such as business data analysis or computational finance. On the whole, interdisciplinary has become a major trend of graduate application in the United States, and the hot interdisciplinary also reflects the demand for cross-border talents at home and abroad.
In addition, with the increasing number of undergraduate students studying abroad in recent years, many China students with overseas undergraduate background have become strong rivals for domestic students to apply for graduate students. As a result, the application competition of American graduate students is becoming more and more fierce. Therefore, for science and engineering students, having overseas internship or research background can greatly add points to applicants. For business and arts students, overseas exchanges, internships, volunteering, entrepreneurship and high-value work experience are all important factors for successful admission. Therefore, students should have a more diversified application background, especially overseas internship or scientific research background. If you can get a recommendation letter from a professor from an overseas university, it will be of great help to your application.
The interview process still needs special attention.
Compared with the previous study abroad groups, they pay more attention to the return on investment in studying abroad, such as income after employment and immigration. Nowadays, many students have a more rational concept of studying abroad and no longer blindly pursue popular majors and prestigious schools, which is particularly prominent in this year's application for liberal arts majors. In addition to liberal arts majors such as MPA, MPP, education and public health, East Asian culture and social work are no longer unpopular this year. More and more parents support their children to study some previously unpopular majors abroad, such as anthropology, history and art history. For students, studying abroad is no longer just a return on investment, but also a rich life experience.
Judging from this year's application, more and more schools require certification and evaluation of transcripts, and more majors will increase the interview process for applicants. So in addition to standardized scores, the interview process still needs students' attention.
In recent years, many American universities, even professors or school representatives from famous universities such as Stanford, Yale and Columbia University, often come to China to hold lectures or interviews. Students should also make good use of these opportunities to communicate with teachers in American universities. On the one hand, they should ask teachers to evaluate their background, on the other hand, they should learn more about the main points of their first-hand application.
Avoid misreading the college entrance examination results recognized by foreign countries
In fact, except the United States, nearly 20 countries and regions in the world have recognized the results of the college entrance examination. Earlier, the Ministry of Education said that it would actively promote foreign recognition of China's college entrance examination results. This has created more convenient conditions for domestic students to apply for studying abroad. In the process of promotion, we must correctly understand the recognition of college entrance examination results by foreign universities and avoid misreading.
The results of college entrance examination have been recognized by nearly 20 countries and regions. It is very important that foreign universities generally implement independent enrollment. Therefore, what grades are used as the basis for students' admission evaluation is the autonomy of the school, not the decision and requirement of the government department, which is different from that of mainland universities in China.
At the same time, foreign universities recognize the results of the college entrance examination when accepting applications from China students, but they don't take the results of the college entrance examination as the only basis for admission as I do in domestic universities, but take the results of the college entrance examination as an indicator to comprehensively evaluate students together with other indicators.
Regarding the adjustment of the restrictions on application methods, some overseas experts said that it is related to the application methods of students casting their nets widely. In order to improve the admission probability, many applicants have to apply to more than a dozen universities at a time, which means that the workload of enrollment teachers has greatly increased, occupying a lot of human and financial costs. If you pass the exam and are "abandoned" by the students, it means that the cost is wasted.