大学与研究生入学考试成绩与申请文书
📚现代技术的快速发展使得竞争日益激烈，尤其是在工作机会和教育领域。申请大学或研究生项目的竞争变得前所未有的激烈，申请者需要通过考试成绩和申请文书脱颖而出。
🎓 入学考试与申请文书的重要性
在当今的就业市场中，拥有大学学位已不再是奢侈，而是必需品。然而，进入顶尖高等教育机构变得越来越困难，要求潜在学生在入学考试和撰写引人注目的申请文书方面做好充分准备，尤其是对于 MBA 项目。
尽管入学考试（如 SAT、LSAT、MCAT、MBA 等）在申请过程中占据重要地位，但申请文书同样重要。许多高分考生往往忽视了这一部分的重要性，但实际上，这可能决定申请是否被录取。
📝 申请文书的作用
申请文书是考生考试成绩之外的“人性化”体现。学校官员不仅关注考生的考试成绩或 GPA，还希望了解他们的抱负、目标、兴趣和背景。通过申请文书，考官可以深入了解考生的个性。
因此，大学申请文书、研究生申请文书（包括 MBA 申请文书）是展示自我的重要机会。重点在于清晰、具体地展现你的身份，突出你的优势而非弱点。
💡 如何让你的个性闪耀
- 分享你的兴趣和价值观：例如你在轻松的一天喜欢做什么，你对生活的看法，以及什么事情会让你感到不安。
- 推荐一本书、一部电影或一次经历，这些对你的个人成长产生了重大影响，并塑造了今天的你。
- 用一个引人入胜的故事作为开头，吸引读者的注意力并激励他们继续阅读。
🏆 撰写成功的申请文书
- 不要泛泛而谈，尤其是在列举你的成就时。引用具体的例子，展示你在某一领域的最佳表现。
- 详细描述你的课外活动，例如你如何成功完成一个目标或任务，无论是独立完成还是团队合作。
- 强调与你目标学科相关的活动，例如志愿参与救援行动以展示你对医学的热情。
📖 避免常见错误
许多申请者在撰写申请文书时，往往泛泛而谈，列举所有成就，认为优秀的学术记录足以让他们通过。然而，学校管理者现在更加挑剔，他们希望看到的不仅仅是数字，还包括真实的经历和详细的故事。
因此，如果你梦想进入哈佛或牛津，请做好充分准备。访问学校网站，了解入学要求，包括可能的申请文书主题。复习旧书，重温过去的课程内容，并花时间撰写一篇优秀的申请文书。
📋 哈佛 MBA 申请文书示例
My name is ————-
I started writing this essay on a piece of paper, but that’s exactly what I’m not.
Let me introduce myself properly.
I am my parent’s child.
My parents are a driving force in my ambition to make this world a better place. My dream of pioneering my own Ed-Tech start-up first began at my kitchen table, where my parents – an educational strategist and a high-tech executive – would share stories about their work.
My dad, a farmer turned president of a tech company, showed me that determination succeeds in any environment, from the fields to the boardroom. My mom, an education innovator and social justice advocate impressed upon me the importance of proper and equal education for all. My parents showed me that a profession is more than advancing just yourself or your family – it’s about advancing society.
I am determined to reach and exceed my parents’ achievements, in my way, by combining the passions born from my life’s biggest influences – education, technology, and management.
I’m driven by the desire to use technology and open-source principles to improve education in remote and rural areas around the world.
I am a global citizen.
Just before I entered first grade, my father was tapped by a former army commander to work in high tech. My view morphed from the rolling hills of our town to skyscrapers, the songs of birds replaced by honking taxis.
Two days after arriving in America, I found myself in a public classroom, without a single friend or a word of English to my name.
Feeling embarrassed and confused in a class led me to spend my afternoons memorizing the ABCs and scanning books in English. I forced my parents to give me English lessons every night when they returned home from work. After a year, I felt completely at home, and I even mentored new foreign arrivals, preparing them for what to expect at school and helping them to practice English.
We moved back to my town after six years, but the experience abroad was foundational. Acclimating to a foreign culture at such a young age opened me in ways that have been essential to my personal and professional growth. Long afternoons of learning made me an independent learner – a skill I use often at work today, mastering new programming languages and conducting in-depth research at my employer’s innovation center.
Overcoming my language barrier at a young age taught me to be patient, to give others the benefit of the doubt, and to instill the value of mentorship. These insights helped me to become a highly cooperative person whom others feel they can trust.
I am a leader.
I first learned to lead as captain of my high school football team, leading my team to a national championship against all odds. We had less talent and less experience, and we were (on average) 4 centimeters shorter than our opponents. In the end, our teamwork and friendship prevailed. After winning the championship, I was invited to scrimmage with the national team. I insisted they allow my entire team to come.
Becoming national champions showed me the value of persistence and never underestimating your abilities or the abilities of your team. This was especially instructive when serving as a paratrooper; I suffered a serious back injury from long treks with heavy equipment. My commanders presented me with two options: take a desk job, or sign an extra year beyond my mandatory service to attend Officers’ School and afterward lead an elite unit for special operations and technology development. Determined to make the most of my service despite my injury, I chose the latter.
Just like the football team, I led, my first project started as something of a lost cause: I was handed responsibility for developing a $2.8M thermal tracking device alongside a world-leading military contractor. The project was over a year behind schedule, manned by an exhausted, frustrated team.
I never doubted that we would reach the ambitious 8-month goal the army had set. I created a comprehensive Gantt to meet development, finance, logistics, and HR benchmarks. I worked hard toward creating cohesion between the army and civilian team members.
When additional product features required more capital to develop, I used my nights off to create marketing campaigns that I pitched to higher-ranking officers – to countless colonels and even a brigadier general. I solicited private donations from dozens of international donors, tailoring each presentation to their cultural preferences and priorities. I raised $1M in the capital, we met our deadline, and our unit became the go-to unit for product development and special tech operations. After the release of the thermal tracking device, I led 7 additional projects with budgets totaling $4M.
I believe that Ed-Tech is the future.
Growing up in an immigrant community, I developed a close understanding of what it meant to live in a poor, remote part of a country. Teaching at-risk teenagers and elementary school orphans in Thailand brought meaning to my mother’s words, “Education is the distance between have and have-not.” Technology is the only way to shorten this distance.
I intend to leverage my technological skills, experience as an educator, and the business acumen I’ll acquire at Harvard to create Ed-Tech products to increase access to education through low-cost applications based on collaborative knowledge sharing and big data analytics.
My tech achievements thus far give me the confidence that I am ready to bring my products to the public.
I developed a start-up company, an online platform for professional development and recruiting. I drew capital for the entire project with nothing more than belief in my idea and very convincing PowerPoint presentations. Today, My company has thousands of users and is the main professional development platform for several multi-million-dollar tech firms.
Global change begins with local change, and my country is a fertile testing ground. After my MBA, and hopefully following success as a product manager with an Ed-Tech firm, I intend to pilot my projects in my country’s periphery, targeting underserved populations.
Harvard is my calling.
More than being located in my beloved childhood hometown, Harvard Business School is the place that piqued my interest in management sciences. I had the opportunity to accompany my dad to HBS courses while he was studying in the Advanced Manager’s Program. Sitting in the AMP courses ignited my interest in case studies (I ended up reading every study in my father’s folder!), and I enjoyed in-depth discussions with professors like Richard Vietor and Guhan Subramanian. I am fortunate to be able to continue my interaction with HBS through reading articles and case studies on the IBM learning portal.
Harvard is the quintessential learning experience. Through innovations in EdTech, I believe the Harvard standard can become a worldwide education standard.
I’m an adventurer, a risk-taker, a challenge seeker. I’m an educator, a leader, an entrepreneur, and a social innovator.
I’m not just my past, I am my future; and I’m about to embark on a new chapter of my life, with you, at Harvard.
I started writing this essay on a piece of paper, but that’s exactly what I’m not.
Let me introduce myself properly.
I am my parent’s child.
My parents are a driving force in my ambition to make this world a better place. My dream of pioneering my own Ed-Tech start-up first began at my kitchen table, where my parents – an educational strategist and a high-tech executive – would share stories about their work.
My dad, a farmer turned president of a tech company, showed me that determination succeeds in any environment, from the fields to the boardroom. My mom, an education innovator and social justice advocate impressed upon me the importance of proper and equal education for all. My parents showed me that a profession is more than advancing just yourself or your family – it’s about advancing society.
I am determined to reach and exceed my parents’ achievements, in my way, by combining the passions born from my life’s biggest influences – education, technology, and management.
I’m driven by the desire to use technology and open-source principles to improve education in remote and rural areas around the world.
I am a global citizen.
Just before I entered first grade, my father was tapped by a former army commander to work in high tech. My view morphed from the rolling hills of our town to skyscrapers, the songs of birds replaced by honking taxis.
Two days after arriving in America, I found myself in a public classroom, without a single friend or a word of English to my name.
Feeling embarrassed and confused in a class led me to spend my afternoons memorizing the ABCs and scanning books in English. I forced my parents to give me English lessons every night when they returned home from work. After a year, I felt completely at home, and I even mentored new foreign arrivals, preparing them for what to expect at school and helping them to practice English.
We moved back to my town after six years, but the experience abroad was foundational. Acclimating to a foreign culture at such a young age opened me in ways that have been essential to my personal and professional growth. Long afternoons of learning made me an independent learner – a skill I use often at work today, mastering new programming languages and conducting in-depth research at my employer’s innovation center.
Overcoming my language barrier at a young age taught me to be patient, to give others the benefit of the doubt, and to instill the value of mentorship. These insights helped me to become a highly cooperative person whom others feel they can trust.
I am a leader.
I first learned to lead as captain of my high school football team, leading my team to a national championship against all odds. We had less talent and less experience, and we were (on average) 4 centimeters shorter than our opponents. In the end, our teamwork and friendship prevailed. After winning the championship, I was invited to scrimmage with the national team. I insisted they allow my entire team to come.
Becoming national champions showed me the value of persistence and never underestimating your abilities or the abilities of your team. This was especially instructive when serving as a paratrooper; I suffered a serious back injury from long treks with heavy equipment. My commanders presented me with two options: take a desk job, or sign an extra year beyond my mandatory service to attend Officers’ School and afterward lead an elite unit for special operations and technology development. Determined to make the most of my service despite my injury, I chose the latter.
Just like the football team, I led, my first project started as something of a lost cause: I was handed responsibility for developing a $2.8M thermal tracking device alongside a world-leading military contractor. The project was over a year behind schedule, manned by an exhausted, frustrated team.
I never doubted that we would reach the ambitious 8-month goal the army had set. I created a comprehensive Gantt to meet development, finance, logistics, and HR benchmarks. I worked hard toward creating cohesion between the army and civilian team members.
When additional product features required more capital to develop, I used my nights off to create marketing campaigns that I pitched to higher-ranking officers – to countless colonels and even a brigadier general. I solicited private donations from dozens of international donors, tailoring each presentation to their cultural preferences and priorities. I raised $1M in the capital, we met our deadline, and our unit became the go-to unit for product development and special tech operations. After the release of the thermal tracking device, I led 7 additional projects with budgets totaling $4M.
I believe that Ed-Tech is the future.
Growing up in an immigrant community, I developed a close understanding of what it meant to live in a poor, remote part of a country. Teaching at-risk teenagers and elementary school orphans in Thailand brought meaning to my mother’s words, “Education is the distance between have and have-not.” Technology is the only way to shorten this distance.
I intend to leverage my technological skills, experience as an educator, and the business acumen I’ll acquire at Harvard to create Ed-Tech products to increase access to education through low-cost applications based on collaborative knowledge sharing and big data analytics.
My tech achievements thus far give me the confidence that I am ready to bring my products to the public.
I developed a start-up company, an online platform for professional development and recruiting. I drew capital for the entire project with nothing more than belief in my idea and very convincing PowerPoint presentations. Today, My company has thousands of users and is the main professional development platform for several multi-million-dollar tech firms.
Global change begins with local change, and my country is a fertile testing ground. After my MBA, and hopefully following success as a product manager with an Ed-Tech firm, I intend to pilot my projects in my country’s periphery, targeting underserved populations.
Harvard is my calling.
More than being located in my beloved childhood hometown, Harvard Business School is the place that piqued my interest in management sciences. I had the opportunity to accompany my dad to HBS courses while he was studying in the Advanced Manager’s Program. Sitting in the AMP courses ignited my interest in case studies (I ended up reading every study in my father’s folder!), and I enjoyed in-depth discussions with professors like Richard Vietor and Guhan Subramanian. I am fortunate to be able to continue my interaction with HBS through reading articles and case studies on the IBM learning portal.
Harvard is the quintessential learning experience. Through innovations in EdTech, I believe the Harvard standard can become a worldwide education standard.
I’m an adventurer, a risk-taker, a challenge seeker. I’m an educator, a leader, an entrepreneur, and a social innovator.
I’m not just my past, I am my future; and I’m about to embark on a new chapter of my life, with you, at Harvard.
💬 招生官点评：
这篇文章之所以出色，是因为它巧妙地将个人故事与职业抱负结合在一起，构建了一个引人入胜的叙述，展现了申请者的独特品质。文章围绕三个关键主题展开：身份认同、全球视野和领导力，这些主题被无缝地融合在一起，全面展示了候选人的形象。
开篇以富有创意和反思性的语调立即吸引了读者的注意，为个人和真实的自我介绍奠定了基础。申请者与父母价值观和职业的联系为其抱负提供了坚实的基础，而其全球化的经历则展现了适应能力和文化意识——这些都是像哈佛这样多元化学术环境中非常看重的品质。
领导力部分尤为突出，因为它强调了具体的成就，例如领导高风险的军事项目和筹集大量资金。这些例子不仅展示了申请者克服挑战的能力，还体现了他们的机智、团队合作精神和决心。
此外，文章有效地将申请者的过去经历与未来目标联系起来，突出了他们对教育科技的热情以及利用技术解决教育不平等问题的愿景。结尾部分通过与哈佛的深刻联系将一切串联起来，清晰地表明了该项目如何与他们的抱负相契合。
总的来说，这篇文章之所以成功，是因为它个人化、具体且具有前瞻性，给人留下了深刻印象，展现了一位不仅有成就且致力于对世界产生深远影响的候选人。
