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What should I pay attention to when applying for a university?
1. Be cautious about university rankings. The current university rankings generally include the size of the school, the number of students, and the quality of students (that is, the average score of students admitted over the years). In this way, those universities with "strong+weak" combinations that have been forcibly merged, those with unpopular majors, and so on, will fall behind because of the low average admission scores over the years, thus covering up their original academic advantages.

2. Treat the difference between the first major and the second major with caution. Everything in China is "swarming". In recent years, in order to attract candidates, many universities blindly set up popular majors according to the popularity of certain majors in society without any conditions. What's more, the provincial admissions office has ulterior motives, ignoring the professional strength of such schools and blindly putting these newly established majors into this enrollment; In 2 1 1 universities and provincial key universities, it is obvious that this newly-built hot major is included in this enrollment.

3. Be cautious about key disciplines. The development of colleges and universities in China is carried out under the leadership of the government, so there is a task for the government, that is, which university should put the development funds of colleges and universities? So since the state has determined the levels of "985" and "21"colleges and universities, there will naturally be a lot of funds flowing to the so-called "985" and "2 1 1" colleges and universities, which shows that the government's work conforms to the leadership spirit of superiors; But there is no advantage in one major of these universities. What shall we do? I'll give you money. Why don't you develop it? However, the lack of famous teachers has become their weakness, which virtually ignores the development and construction of majors with historical advantages in other universities.

In addition, an important condition for the construction of key disciplines is the number of academicians. Apart from the well-known factors in society, outsourcing academicians has become a widely used means in colleges and universities. Some academicians are employed by four universities. In fact, these academicians just earn some extra money, and some academicians have never been to the university they hired once in several years.

4. Treat key laboratories with caution. A university has a key laboratory, which only means that the university has declared this laboratory. However, from the acceptance evaluation of various laboratories, we find that many laboratories are unqualified, and many laboratories have long been disqualified by the state, but these laboratories still exist in the recruitment advertisements of this university. Moreover, many laboratories in colleges and universities are rented, and undergraduate education has nothing to do with these laboratories.

5. Be cautious about the history of colleges and universities. At present, many colleges and universities deliberately cover up the history of their merged "technical secondary school" and "vocational high school" in their advertisements, and only mention the words "long history" of technical secondary school and other majors, which we have to guard against.