重新申请美国大学商学院的注意事项
原文作者 ClareCC | 发布时间 2015-04-21 | 浏览次数 5382
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Many business schools, even the most elite and well-ranked ones, welcome re-applicants. Reapplying to school shows you are very serious about your interest in the business school program. The best way to approach the reapplication process when you’re targeting the same schools is to highlight how you have improved your candidacy. Take a closer look at the following aspects of the MBA application package to determine where you should focus your energies to improve your odds next time around.
很多大学的商学院，甚至是那些最顶级的大学都很乐意接受学生的再次申请。学生在再次申请某所学校时最好的方式是强调自己已经通过努力提升了候选资格。仔细阅读下面有关工商管理学硕士申请方面的建议，注意对你而言应该把精力放在哪些方面，以便提高自己下次被录取的几率。
Decide How Many and Which Programs to Target
Do: Apply to at least four schools to maximize your chances of success. These programs should represent varying levels of competitiveness. Include your dream school in the mix. It may be a real reach, but go for it anyway and you’ll have no regrets later.
Don’t: Apply to too many schools – usually six or more – believing that hedging your bets in this way will guarantee admission somewhere. While that strategy sounds logical, in reality your efforts will become so diluted with each successive application that there just won’t be enough passion there to sway the admissions committee.
决定好目标的数量和类型
你应该：尽可能提高自己被录取的几率，所以要至少申请4所学校。而且这4种申请项目应该代表不同的竞争水平。要把梦想中的学校包括在这4所学校里。也许会有点难，但你始终要追求它，这样才没有遗憾。
你不能：申请太多的学校，同时申请6个或6个以上的大学就太多了。虽然这看起来可以增加你被大学录取的几率，但实际上这样会使你的努力看起来没有激情或者诚意，所以反而不容易打动那些大学的招生委员会。
Tweak Letters of Recommendation
Unsuccessful applicants sometimes don’t realize that they were rejected because their letters of recommendation came across as weak endorsements at best.
Do: Make sure whomever you ask is willing to write a very compelling recommendation for you. Since it’s not a given that you’ll see the letter once it’s written, it’s perfectly OK to come right out and explicitly ask for what you need. Remind your recommenders to address specific examples of your accomplishments and leadership abilities, and to discuss your work ethic or team-building skills. Writing a strong endorsement requires some effort, so make it easy for your recommender by providing a list of the accomplishments you want to highlight.
Don’t: Choose a recommender for superficial reasons. I’ve seen too many applicants dinged for committing this mistake. Asking the president of a company, an alum of your dream school or any other bigwig won’t do you any good if they cannot speak intimately and enthusiastically about your many virtues
修改推荐信
某些申请者在失败之后都不知道原因，其实有时是因为推荐信效果太差了。
你应该：确保给你写推荐信的人会为你写一封非常强有力的推荐信。即使你不能马上看到信的内容，你也要能相信那封信的内容正是你所想要的。提醒你的推荐者在信中提出一些具体的例子来表现你的才能和领导能力。写一封效果很好的推荐信并不容易，所以你可以自己列出一些想要强调的优点以供推荐者参考。
你不能：出于一些肤浅的理由来选择推荐者，比如让某个公司的董事长或你梦想中的那个大学的某个校友或者其他影响力较大的人物来给你写推荐信，如果他们不能就你的优点进行很好的阐释，那么对你其实一点用都没有。
Rock Those Essays
Sometimes applicants get hung up on writing the perfect essay, when in reality they should focus onwriting a compelling essay instead. MBA blogger Scott Duncan applied to five schools last year and was rejected by all of them. This year, he wrote, he let go of perfectionism and changed his strategy to deliver a simple, clear message and add color to his application where possible.
The new tactic worked, and he’s been accepted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, wait-listed at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and awaits news from Harvard Business School, where he recently interviewed.
Do: Use the additional essay question to explain what’s changed in your situation to make you a stronger candidate this time around. Make sure to address both professional and personal advancements, but show that you are realistic and self-aware. Revealing your humanity in the form of quirks, weaknesses and flaws can often help the admissions committee to like you.
Don’t: Recycle essays from the first time around, and don’t use the same essay for multiple schools. At best, the byproduct of being all-inclusive is that you will sound generic. At worst, you might accidentally leave the wrong school name in the essay and be rejected out of hand for your lack of attention to detail.
改变文章的写作方式
有时申请者一心想要写出完美的文章，但实际上他们只要写出令人信服的文章就好了。工商管理学硕士研究生Scott Duncan去年申请了5所学校，但没有一所大学录取他。今年他改变了策略，用简单的但让人信服的文章取代了看似完美实则生硬的文章，结果他同时被麻省理工学院、西北大学克洛格管理学院录取了，并在等哈佛商学院的消息。
你应该：在提交的文章中提到自己在专业及个人身心发展方面的进步，但也要表明自己也有作为人的缺点和不足，这样能让招生委员会更喜欢你。
你不能：重复使用把之前所写的文章，也不能用同一篇文章申请多个学校。因为你可能在文章中把大学的名字弄混淆，然后由于这种粗心的举动而被拒绝。
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