绿洲红叶: 儿子这两天独自去学校的admitted students days，我有点时间，整理他以前发给我的邮件，看到3周前送给他朋友们的一个附件，贴上来供将要申请大学孩子参考。
Author’s Note:
Greetings everyone! For those of you reading this who don’t know me, my name is 。。。. I haven’t yet decided my plans for next year, though I know I’ll be attending one of the schools。。。… The following is a collection of random advice regarding the college process, a “guide” of sorts that I hope you will find helpful. First, a couple of background things:
I’ve written this guide out of a desire to be helpful to those applying for college, with no expectation of financial gain or other return, so I ask that if you are making use of this resource that you do not under any circumstances pass the words or writing here off as your own, or attempt to sell this guide for monetary gain. I do encourage you to share this document with your friends, as it was intended to help people!
In all likelihood, by the time you’re reading this I’ll be a very busy and stressed college student, so I may not have time to response to individual inquiries. That being said, I still welcome questions, comments, thanks, criticism, whatever, which can be sent to me via Facebook. Also, if you do feel so compelled, 。。。I urge you to show your appreciation for this guide by 。。。 an organization that I am proud to be part of
Know that this document is primarily written for those aiming for HYPSM-level schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT), and therefore contains advice aimed at a specific group of students, though it should be helpful for anyone.
Also, remember that much of what is stated here is just my opinion. College admissions is by and large a non-transparent process, and much of what we can say about it is only conjecture. And really, your conjecture is as good as mine!
Several times in this guide I will reference College Confidential, a forum dedicated to college admissions discussion. Firstly, know that their search engine is absolutely horrid, so just Google what you need to find with “site: talk.collegeconfidential.com” appended. Secondly, there are a lot of caveats about using CC. It’s in large part a highly concentrated group of anxiety-plagued high school seniors and juniors who put forward information that is sometimes just false. Don’t fall into the trap of reading decision pages, believing the trolls, or compulsively following the SAT forum. Just use it as a resource, to look through interview advice threads or check-up on a form or a deadline.
I also link to MIT Admissions Blogs a lot. Of all the colleges I researched, their page was by far the most helpful. They actually take the time to make their process a little more transparent, to humanize college admissions, and for that I think they deserve a lot of credit. It’s a philosophy that I wish were repeated elsewhere. Many of their posts, which I don’t have the space to link to here, merit reading: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/c/best-of-the-blogs/
Finally, special thanks to all those who helped me through the admissions process, and those who gave constructive feedback in the writing of this guide!
Author’s Note:
Greetings everyone! For those of you reading this who don’t know me, my name is 。。。. I haven’t yet decided my plans for next year, though I know I’ll be attending one of the schools。。。… The following is a collection of random advice regarding the college process, a “guide” of sorts that I hope you will find helpful. First, a couple of background things:
I’ve written this guide out of a desire to be helpful to those applying for college, with no expectation of financial gain or other return, so I ask that if you are making use of this resource that you do not under any circumstances pass the words or writing here off as your own, or attempt to sell this guide for monetary gain. I do encourage you to share this document with your friends, as it was intended to help people!
In all likelihood, by the time you’re reading this I’ll be a very busy and stressed college student, so I may not have time to response to individual inquiries. That being said, I still welcome questions, comments, thanks, criticism, whatever, which can be sent to me via Facebook. Also, if you do feel so compelled, 。。。I urge you to show your appreciation for this guide by 。。。 an organization that I am proud to be part of
Know that this document is primarily written for those aiming for HYPSM-level schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT), and therefore contains advice aimed at a specific group of students, though it should be helpful for anyone.
Also, remember that much of what is stated here is just my opinion. College admissions is by and large a non-transparent process, and much of what we can say about it is only conjecture. And really, your conjecture is as good as mine!
Several times in this guide I will reference College Confidential, a forum dedicated to college admissions discussion. Firstly, know that their search engine is absolutely horrid, so just Google what you need to find with “site: talk.collegeconfidential.com” appended. Secondly, there are a lot of caveats about using CC. It’s in large part a highly concentrated group of anxiety-plagued high school seniors and juniors who put forward information that is sometimes just false. Don’t fall into the trap of reading decision pages, believing the trolls, or compulsively following the SAT forum. Just use it as a resource, to look through interview advice threads or check-up on a form or a deadline.
I also link to MIT Admissions Blogs a lot. Of all the colleges I researched, their page was by far the most helpful. They actually take the time to make their process a little more transparent, to humanize college admissions, and for that I think they deserve a lot of credit. It’s a philosophy that I wish were repeated elsewhere. Many of their posts, which I don’t have the space to link to here, merit reading: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/c/best-of-the-blogs/
Finally, special thanks to all those who helped me through the admissions process, and those who gave constructive feedback in the writing of this guide!
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