Any student with a bachelor's degree or a master's degree can apply for a doctorate from an American university. If the undergraduate directly applies for a doctorate, the requirements for the applicant will be more stringent. Applicants must have sufficient research experience and background and outstanding performance in the professional field, and have completed many courses at the master's stage, which is what we usually call equivalent academic ability. Similarly, applying for a doctorate from a master's degree also requires research experience and professional writings.
2. Excellent GPA
The minimum GPA for applying for a doctorate in the United States should be above 3.0. If you want to apply for a full scholarship, your GPA needs to be above 3.5.
3. Excellent GRE/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT and TOEFL scores.
Although many American universities don't have high requirements for entrance examination scores, with the increasing number of applicants, students with high scores have an advantage. Therefore, we must make full use of the winter and summer vacations to prepare for the exam carefully and strive for the best level.
TOEFL is only set for students whose mother tongue is not English, and usually needs to reach 100, so it is safer. GMAT is used to apply for business schools in the United States, LSAT is used to apply for a doctorate in law from American law schools, and MCAT is used to apply for medical schools in the United States. Each college has different requirements for students' grades, but it is safer for students' grades to exceed the minimum admission score 10.
4. Have a high level of research ability.
You should know the specific situation of the major and school you want to apply for. Before applying for a doctorate, you should do a composition survey to determine which project you want to apply for and what kind of tutor you want to find. At the undergraduate stage, we must seek research opportunities and strengthen research and academic background. As an undergraduate, it is difficult to get research opportunities for scientific research projects, especially national scientific research projects, but such research experience is actually very important for applying for doctors and doctoral awards. After contacting certain professional courses, the applicant can make clear his research direction, and try to contact higher-level research institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences through his own school tutor to find research opportunities.
The most obvious and intuitive way to improve the research background and academic background is to publish papers. It is not easy for undergraduates to publish papers with a certain level independently. The safest and most convenient way is to publish a paper jointly with your tutor, or as the second and third author. Although this kind of paper is not as weighty as independent publication, it is the best choice for most applicants considering its feasibility. Research background and academic background can also be strengthened through academic international exchanges and participation in international conferences.
5. supporting documents
Personal statement is a platform to fully display your own advantages, but you should also be careful not to exceed 800 words when writing, and use your own examples to elaborate. You need 2-3 letters of recommendation, which are often more important than personal statements. If you can get a recommendation letter from a very famous professor at home and abroad or a recommendation letter from a Fortune 500 company, it will be of great help to your application and the success rate will be greatly improved.
Step 6 magnetize
When applying for a scholarship, communication with the tutor is very important. After the students submit the application materials, if you think your background is good, the tutor will take the initiative to reply to your email. When communicating, we should proceed from an academic point of view. If your academic views satisfy the professor, you should be able to apply for a full scholarship.
7. Scientific research ability
There are two important ways to demonstrate scientific research ability: one is to publish articles, and the other is to participate in scientific research projects. The result of a project is usually a paper.
But if you don't publish your thesis, students who choose to go to the United States for doctoral studies must work hard on their own project research experience, participate in this research more, and focus on one research direction instead of coping with it, otherwise they will not be able to write anything substantial when it comes to research experience in the future. General scientific research articles, it is best to rank in the top three of article signatures. If it is too backward, it will have little impact.
8. Academic ability
Students' learning ability is generally reflected in their academic performance. Therefore, students with poor undergraduate grades, such as 3.0/4.0, may not be recommended to apply, because this will make American school professors uncertain whether you can successfully complete the doctoral degree in the United States.
Unless, for example, you have more than ordinary scientific research experience, for example, you have a lot of scientific research experience and published papers in the same direction as the professor, and the professor thinks you can help them complete related scientific research projects.
9. Ability to deal with complex problems
Most business school students will enter important management positions in the company after graduation, and the things they have to deal with every day are bound to be more challenging than the problems faced by ordinary employees, so business schools attach great importance to this ability when recruiting new students;
10. Cooperation spirit
A truly outstanding enterprise leader can enhance the cohesion of the whole team by flexibly handling the interpersonal relationship between superiors and subordinates and colleagues, so that the whole group can exert greater strength than the sum of individual individuals;