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发信人: bartonchen (闲云野鹤), 信区: Flyingoverseas
标  题: What're Considered Good PS and Essays?
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年10月23日20:48:15 星期二), 站内信件

Posted by grassever, Oct 22, 1999: These days I have read lots of sample ess
ays written by Chinese and American applicants. I found that there was big d
ifference between their approaches.
Chinese candidates tend to use many laudatory words to boast themselves and
to ingratiate with the committee. When I wrote PS last year, I used the conv
entional remarks: "U of XXX is one of the best universities in US with excel
lent students and faculty..." I wasted the whole paragraph to say nothing in
formative and at last lost the chance to be admitted.
American candidates are good at analyzing themselves. They emphasize more ab
out human nature. In a 'career objectives" essay for NYU MBA application, an
American girl, a sales assistant, guilelessly said that she only wanted to
"seek a position" in something like a finance firm and to be an expert in fi
ve years. Her goal is not a CEO, or even a manager. But she made the readers
think that she had definite views and knew clearly what she wanted to do. "
Liberate our minds". It is easier to say than to do. Anyway, I will try to e
scape from the traditional pattern.
Original question by Susan, Nov 11, 1999: Could you translate "monitor" for
me? How to say it correctly in essays? Thank you.
Answer by DouDou, Jan 12, 2000: If you read BeBeyond's 9-steps, you will kno
w how important it is to think about who YOU are and describe a unique Susan
in your application essays. It's way more important than what's the better
translation for "monitor". And in my opinion, "monitor' is just OKay. You wa
nt to say Ban1 Zhang3, right?

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