Have you seriously considered choosing a city?
China's parents attach great importance to big cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing. They have always believed that studying in these cities with great economic, cultural and political advantages can not only receive the best education and enjoy high-quality teaching resources, but also greatly increase the competitiveness of future employment.
This idea is reasonable, but it also ignores a question: do we have such strength? Colleges and universities in these big cities have repeatedly highlighted the "three highs" in admission: high scores, high requirements and high consumption. Candidates and parents really need to weigh more and don't rush to take risks.
In addition, we need to remind everyone that we must understand the principle of "distance for score". This is a popular term for volunteering in recent years, mainly aiming at the misunderstanding of "non-provincial colleges and universities do not go to school" by some candidates and parents.
Do you have two misunderstandings about choosing a school?
Before volunteering, few parents and candidates will study the history and strength of colleges and universities. It is often after you get the "big book" that you volunteer to fill in, which one can be pleasing to the eye.
At best, the understanding of colleges and universities stays in the definition of names: for example, when you see a "transportation" university, you think it must be related to roads and railways. "Finding a university by name" has become one of the most common misunderstandings when choosing a university.
The second misunderstanding is the deep-rooted "prestigious school complex". Many candidates and parents are very concerned about the ranking of the school, which always gives people the feeling that they are either famous brands or focusing on reading. In fact, the famous school complex is not a bad thing, but there is always a gap between ideal and reality. Although there are 1 1 colleges and universities, there are only a handful of enrollment plans allocated to provinces. Calm analysis, is your score really competitive?
Choose a major, what is unpopular and what is popular?
Candidates and parents are often willing to choose popular majors when choosing majors, but they don't know that some seemingly popular majors are becoming less and less popular with time, and it is difficult to find suitable jobs even after graduation.
Whether it is unpopular or popular, we must first understand the connotation of the major, that is to say, for a major, we must understand some common sense of the major, such as what to study and how to pursue further studies in the future. Don't blindly pursue the so-called popularity, or choose a major that suits you from your own situation.
When filling in volunteers, there is a popular jargon, that is, candidates with high scores prefer schools and candidates with low and medium scores prefer majors. In fact, there is an "optimal choice" problem in each score section in the college entrance examination volunteering.
Choosing a good school cannot ignore a good major, and choosing a good major cannot ignore a good school. The combination of the two is the best choice.
These two views are antagonistic.
There are different views on the preferred school or the preferred major. At present, there are two views.
1, think you should choose your major first.
Since the resumption of the college entrance examination in the late 1970s, judging from the investigation of the job market and employment situation, there has been a popular view in the society that it is not important to voluntarily choose a school to fill in the report, but the key is to choose a good major so as to find a good job in the future.
People who hold this view, especially middle school teachers. Mainly because a person's development and success mainly depends on his major, not the school. During his undergraduate study, he can only spend four years in the university, and his major will accompany him all his life.
Profession often has a lifelong influence on people. Because you choose the right major, you can give full play to your hobbies, interests and specialties. If you choose your favorite major, you will travel freely in this field with strong interest, learn professional knowledge more actively and efficiently, and be full of fun, make greater achievements and promote your long-term development in the future.
From the reality, all colleges and universities attach great importance to specialty construction, equipped with excellent teachers, increased capital investment in teaching equipment, strengthened professional research, and greatly improved the professional teaching quality.
It can be said that specialty construction has become the focus of university work. At present, not only famous key universities have their own key specialties, but also some lesser-known local universities have their own brand specialties.
At present, many candidates and parents think that Tsinghua University graduates (scores, major settings) are definitely easier to find jobs than third-rate university graduates. As a result, some students choose a very unpopular major in order to enter their ideal university, and they often encounter trouble in employment.
Because these students ignore a basic fact, that is, if they can be admitted to the unpopular major in Tsinghua, they can generally be admitted to the key and popular majors of famous schools such as Jilin University (score line, major setting) and Shandong University (score line, major setting), which will have greater advantages in the future employment competition.
If candidates can't enter a major that suits their development potential, they should also choose a similar or related major, which can lay a solid foundation for future development. More importantly, it is more important to choose a suitable major than a school if you want to achieve considerable and sustained personal development in the competitive development of the future society.
I think we should choose the school first.
The main reason is that with the development of society, the progress of science and technology and the adjustment of industrial structure, the demand for talents in society has changed from a single expert talent to a compound talent with solid basic theory and strong comprehensive ability. When selecting graduates, employers no longer only emphasize the professional counterparts in the planned economy era, but pay more attention to students' knowledge structure and comprehensive quality.
In order to adapt to this change, colleges and universities have made great adjustments to the school-running mode since the mid-1990s, and put forward new teaching methods, such as "strengthening the foundation, downplaying majors, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and training them in different streams". Therefore, candidates and parents should choose the secondary major of the school as the first choice when filling in their volunteers.
Only when the school has complete disciplines and strong teachers can it have a really good major and students can learn good learning methods. If you narrowly understand the importance of the major and take it too seriously, you will only leave yourself with lifelong regrets.
A special survey shows that there is no necessary connection between major and high salary. Surprisingly, most people get high salaries because of their basic quality advantages.
From the comprehensive investigation and analysis, most people "learn what they don't need", that is, their majors are not right, and they learn and do at work. Good educational experience and reasonable knowledge structure enable them to adapt to the trend and change.
Well-known universities, with excellent conditions for running schools, many famous professors, scholars and national research institutions, huge libraries and advanced school-running concepts and educational models, can just achieve the above goals.
3, lose the "car" to protect the handsome.
Which of the above two views is right and which is wrong? That makes sense! They expounded exactly two aspects of the same thing, namely the so-called dialectical unity. However, when there is a conflict between the choice of major and the school, students should analyze the situation in detail when they can't have both.
The following four situations give priority to choosing a major.
1, candidates with unsatisfactory grades should shift their focus and emphasis to choosing a major when the level of schools available is not much different.
2. When the reported major conflicts with the school, the major should be given priority. Because the ultimate goal of further education is employment, it is more important to choose a major that can be used after graduation and is easier to find employment than to choose a school.
3. When all aspects of the school are similar, the major is given priority. At present, some colleges and universities recruit students according to major categories, and students will not choose their major until their sophomore or junior year. In this case, the school can give priority.
4. If you want to pursue further studies after graduating from university, you should lay a good professional foundation and plan your long-term development goals in the future. Maybe it's not too loud for students to choose a professional school brand, but if students can learn their major well, attending an undergraduate school will not only bring negative effects, but also lay a solid foundation for students to enter a better school in the future.
There are also four preferred schools.
1. Candidates who have excellent academic performance and rank among the top in provincial key middle schools must first choose a famous comprehensive university, and on this premise, choose their favorite major. Don't set up schools by major. Because in a famous comprehensive university, even if students are not satisfied with their major, there are still many opportunities for second choice after entering the school, such as changing departments, changing majors, taking the second degree and taking the second major.
If the school is set up according to the major, some students' abilities may not be brought into play, especially those engineering majors with strong operability and narrow professional scope. When they want to study across majors or change majors, they will find it difficult because of the limitation of majors.
2. Candidates with average academic performance seem to have a large number of schools to choose from. Most of the majors are highly operable engineering, social sciences and related majors, and there are more opportunities than candidates with excellent academic performance.
But in fact, due to the large number of candidates, they can't climb high and refuse to give in, so there is little choice. For the wishes of these candidates, choose a prestigious school with a relatively remote geographical location, so that the choice will become larger and the competition will be smaller, which is also conducive to future development.
3. For candidates with relatively poor academic performance, it is more important to choose a school. Especially those candidates whose test scores fluctuate up and down the control line of local undergraduate or junior college admission batches.
It should be admitted that the competitiveness of these students in the college entrance examination is weaker than that of the first two types of students. Therefore, choosing a school with a relatively distant location and a less "hot" major is likely to be accepted, and it is even possible to improve a number of admissions.
Every year, some normal universities of agriculture, forestry, petroleum, geology and mineral resources are admitted with low scores due to lack of students, and those candidates who apply for undergraduate majors in such schools for the first time are successfully admitted to relevant undergraduate majors by these universities.
If students plan to find a job directly after graduating from college, they can consider choosing a school first. Because you are directly employed after graduating from college, the brand of the school is relatively more important when applying.
4, it is best to combine the actual choice.
The above are general principles, of course, we can't generalize them, we should consider them comprehensively. The fundamental thing is to make a choice according to your actual situation and needs.
If students have a clear professional direction, it is necessary to make a careful investigation and comparison of the institutions offering this major before choosing. Although some universities are famous, they may "lose" to other universities that specialize in a certain major but are not so famous.
For example, Tsinghua University is definitely more famous than China Renmin University (score line, major setting), but if students want to study journalism, China Renmin University is the first choice.
Journalism in Tsinghua University started late, and its teaching experience and strength are not as good as those of Renmin University of China. Even considering the cultivation of comprehensive quality, the comprehensive strength gap between China Renmin University and Tsinghua University is not very big. Therefore, on the whole, it is better to go to China Renmin University to study journalism.
In addition, the major direction can also decide what type of school to choose. For example, if you want to be a teacher majoring in Chinese language and literature, it will be easier to find a job if you choose a normal college than a comprehensive college because you need practical teaching experience and teacher training courses. If you want to be a secretary or a reporter, you can get multicultural influence in comprehensive colleges and universities, which is more suitable for the work of a secretary or a reporter.