AS A PEOPLE SUFFERED A LOT IN APPLICATIONS AND AT LAST GOT WHAT IWANT, I'D LIKE TO SHARE SOME OF MY EXPERIUENCES AND IDEAS INRECOMMENDATIONS , TO HELP THOSE HONORABLE NEW COMERS, AND THOSE WHO ARESEPARATED, BY ANY REASON , LIKE MY WIFE AND ME. In my opinion, the most important thing in application differs much frompeople people, from school to school. But generally speaking, they willconsider all the materials they have and at last, if there ARE STH VERYOUTSTANDING CONCERNING you, they will surely give you what you want.

Among the most important things, including recommendaiotns, transcripts,score in GRE and Tofel, the most common standard is that TRANSCRIPT, TOFEL,GRE SUB, GRE GENERAL, then the recommendation.

The recommendation becomes the most trivial thing in this procession isbecause: (1) USA professors seems already know that few letters were written byfaculty members, they are always the work of students'. (2) There are few professors in china which are famous and willing to writerecommedations for students who is going out. (3) Most professors are not so famous as to be useful in deciding thestudents' being admitted or not.

But we have some exceptions here. When you are lucky enough to find afamous professor, famous to be known by many professors in USA, Acedamymembers are not enough in this issue though. To provide a instance, likeZhang Dainian, Chen daisun, or Zhou Guangzhao, or some people who are veryclose friend or holding close relations with the professors you areapplying, these peoples recommendations will be extremely useful.

Anyway, the recommendations are required in the applications, so we need tochoose the recommendations and the people to write it. There are 6 kinds ofrecommendations, each is worse then the next one.

(1) Letters written by you, signed by famous professor or professor closelyrelated to the school you are applying; (2)Letters written by you, corrected by those people as refered above;(3)Letters written by you, signed by common faculty professors; (4)letters written by you, corrected by those people as above; (5)Letters written by famous people and you have no access to it; (6)Letters written by common ones.

Choose you letters in the order above, and there are many sad experiencesconcerning the case against this basic rule: I was refused by 4 top schoolsjust because I have used a very famous academy memeber's four referenceletters. There are many other skills concerning the resume, etc. which Iwill cover next time. I guess as a conclusion, to make your referenceletter useful, you must, (1) Make totally good words in it, or make it more realistic, put sth. badbut not improtant at all; (2)Choose relevant people to write it, either they do not know, or theyknow very well, Academy member in other fields will equals to common ones,or even worse because you can not get good words from them generallyspeaking.

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