What you need to determine most is the province or city where the target institution is located, because for most people, there are two kinds of work places: one is the source of students, that is, the province where their hometown is located; The other is the city where the school is located.
Generally speaking, after two or three years of graduate study, you can establish contact with your city, and your alumni contacts are basically here. Working in this city is a better choice. (But for Tsinghua Peking University and other domestic first-class universities, it is another matter. ) At work, it is actually easier to build the trust of alumni relations. If you study in Gansu, but go to work in the northeast, it is equivalent to giving up this part of resources.
Therefore, the first factor in choosing a school is the city.
The second factor is the comprehensive strength of the school.
After determining the city, it is necessary to choose a suitable university in the target city. Choosing within a certain range is much more efficient than finding a needle in a haystack.
First of all, choose the institutions corresponding to your major and find their rankings online according to your major. Then, make a table of the enrollment, admission, exemption from exams and scores of these institutions in the past 3-5 years. This information can basically be found on the official website of major schools. Don't rely solely on ranking, because there is too little information to rely solely on ranking. At the very least, you should know the scores of the past years and the enrollment exemption.
According to this information, you can find 2-3 suitable schools.
Like me, I decided that the city of the target school was in Jiangsu at the beginning, and then I simply chose the colleges in Jiangsu Province to apply. According to Fa Shuo's ranking, I quickly identified three institutions: Nanjing University, Nanjing Normal University and Suzhou University. Nanjing University is a famous signboard, and Fashuo is also very strong. Suzhou University, too, is not as famous as Nantah, but the recognition of Fashuo is also famous in Jiangsu. However, among the three schools, Nanjing Normal University's LLM is second to none in Jiangsu in terms of legal strength, although it has a profound background. Moreover, in terms of enrollment, it is relatively large, and compared with Nantah, the score line is lower.
The third factor is: self.
According to the comprehensive strength of the city and the school, the scope of the target school can be determined. At this time, we should make a systematic evaluation of ourselves.
From the two dimensions of self-control and learning ability, if you are confident in yourself and can complete your learning tasks with good quality and quantity, it is a natural choice to rush to a top-ranked school. But if your self-control is a little poor, don't set yourself a target university too far away.
Postgraduate entrance examination is different from college entrance examination. The college entrance examination can fill in three volunteers at the same time. If the first choice is not accepted, it will be postponed to your second choice. So it can be rushed under the condition of guaranteed bottom.
However, the postgraduate entrance examination can only fill in 1 volunteer. If the first choice is not accepted, then you can only choose the right school through adjustment, but it is true that thousands of people cross the wooden bridge. For example, this year's Fashuo adjustment, it is difficult to adjust without 350 or 360 candidates, which is still in the case of adjusting double non-universities, and this year's Fashuo national line is only 325. Many schools rarely volunteer to go online, but there are many requirements for adjustment.
So you'd better volunteer to surf the Internet, do what you can, and determine the suitable institutions according to your actual situation.