Hi guys.
I'm Sister Jia, and my English name is Cheryl.
I am a senior software engineer who has both career and entertainment, and loves to play and dress up.
I have been in the U.S. for almost ten years and am now a permanent resident of the U.S., with my home in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen, China.
I earned two master's degrees while in the U.S., one at Syracuse University and the other at Northeastern University.
As oneA senior sister who has studied abroad for two master's degreesI feel the need to pop my background with you before the article begins.
A book of B paragraphs, Henan University Bachelor of Medicine, GPA: 30；
He won the first prize in the National College Student English Competition, and the third place in the whole school.
Graduate 1:
Master of Nutritional Science, Pre-Med, Syracuse University.
gpa:3.5
Graduate scholarships.
Internship in the school laboratory.
TOFEL: 96, Listening: 23, Speaking: 20, Reading: 26, Writing: 27
GRE: 1260, Math: 800, English Logic: 460, Writing: 35
He has been a new concept teacher at Beijing New Oriental.
Graduate 2:
Northeastern University, M.S. in Computer Science.
gpa: 3.8
Awarded a MERIT Scholarship.
Internship as a Software Engineer in the Payments Division of JPMorgan Chase**.
Get a teaching assistant for the Object-Oriented Design course.
After graduation, he successively joined the software department of Broadcom, a leading company in autonomous driving, and is currently choosing offers from major manufacturers in the United States and China.
Travel in Hong Kong
When I was in college, English was always my weakness, which led to my lack of confidence in studying abroad during my undergraduate years.
Later, I improved my English proficiency by memorizing Level 4 words for a semester and reading a semester of graduate English abstracts.
Because he participated in the National College Student English Contest and won the third place in the school, he was a little confident in his English and laid the foundation for studying abroad.
Because my English was not good enough, I prepared early, I started studying English in my freshman year, I started studying TOEFL in my sophomore year, and I finished the TOEFL in my junior year and started studying for the GRE.
After taking the GRE in the summer of my junior year, I started the road to apply. Due to the timely setting of magnets, the first AD was obtained at the end of December.
So I think for some students who are not at the top level, it is necessary to plan and advance the amount of work. Even if you are not good at English, you will have enough time to improve your grades.
When I applied for my first degree, my average score of TOEFL and GRE was okay, with a low average score of 80, TOEFL 96, and GRE 1260.
Although my grades were not high, after entering the graduate school of Syracuse University, I realized that I was very conservative at that time.
Because my grade was the best among the students at that time.
In fact, I regretted it a little, thinking that if I had impacted it, maybe there would be a better school.
Therefore, I also suggest that students who are applying now should not be too conservative in their applications, and apply to one or two schools for each level, so that students can go to the best schools they can apply to.
Don't be presumptuous! In fact, some students may be good enough, but they don't know their shining points, are not confident enough, and have no relevant understanding.
Instruments
At that time, the essays were all written by myself, and the advantage should be that they highlighted the sense of truth, and they were revised according to different schools and majors, and then each application was packaged beautifully and carefully.
PS writes more emotionally, emphasizing his efforts and sincerity.
If there are no particularly big advantages in grades and others, it is a very feasible plan to use PS to impress the tutor.
Set magnetic
In order to ensure the success of my study abroad, I also talked to professors at Washington State University.
Tell him about himself and what he likes about his school and major.
They were very helpful and got me a master's program in medical management.
Although I didn't go to the project in the end, I personally think that the magnet is very useful and can help get the guaranteed AD, after all, I only started to apply in September at that time, and I got the AD of Washington State University at the end of December of the same year, so I was relieved for several months in advance.
When I applied for a master's degree in nutritional science, I got three ADs from Syracuse University, Washington State University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Of course, all things considered, I chose Syracuse University.
The biggest help I have received from this program at Syracuse University is the improvement of my English writing and reading skillsBecause this degree requires a lot of reading and writing, it has changed me from a student with a weak foundation in English to a person with strong English skills.
Even later, he has been working in an American company, and his English communication skills are also very strong.
Several of our classmates went on to medical school, and some went on to work as dietitians and physician assistants.
After graduating from my first master's degree, I still felt that I was more suitable for computer science, so I took a one-year undergraduate computer science core course with 7 core courses and a GPA of 38. I applied for a master's degree in computer science from Northeastern University and got a MERIT scholarship.
During this period, he received an internship as a teaching assistant and a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase.
After graduation, he directly joined the Broadcom software department, and later went to a leading autonomous driving company to start a business.
Recently, I have received offers from several large Chinese and American companies, and I may give up my business and enter a large factory for further study.
I'm going to tell you about this experience:
In fact, it is a difficult thing to switch from nutritional science to computer science.
If it weren't for my great passion for computers, I really wouldn't have been able to stick to this path. There have been too many ups and downs during this period.
The most outrageous person I've ever met who can change majors, except for an alumnus of undergraduate English, is probably myself.
Others are at least science and engineering, mathematics, mechanics, environmental engineering, and even biology, and they need to write python for data analysis.
And my major is a major that doesn't study mathematics at all, doesn't write, and doesn't even have science and engineering thinking.
So, I haven't had much rest since I changed majors, except for holidays and trips, I do homework, brush questions and interviews, and I really took a break for 15 days for the 3-year preparatory department plus the master's degree.
When I travel, I also take my computer with me to do projects and brush up on problems in hotels and coffee shops.
It is also because of his hard work that he has been working as a teaching assistant and intern since the second year of graduate school, and after graduation, he directly found a position as a software engineer in the back-end of the Silicon Valley office of a large American company.
From internship to work, I worked in Silicon Valley for three years, doing low-level infrastructure work, pure back-end. A lot of times I'm the only girl in the group.
However, I am still a more idealistic person, although the disadvantage of changing majors does not allow me to catch up with other people's foundation and enter the top company as soon as I graduate, but after graduation, I have been working hard to improve and strive to be able to enter the top factory.
So recently, I finally got an offer from FB and Tencent's game company to be a senior engineer in a large factory.
After graduating from my first master's degree, I still felt that I was more suitable for computer science, so I took a one-year undergraduate computer science core course with 7 core courses and a GPA of 38. I applied for a master's degree in computer science from Northeastern University and got a MERIT scholarship.
During this period, he received an internship as a teaching assistant and a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase.
After graduation, he directly joined the Broadcom software department, and later went to a leading autonomous driving company to start a business.
Recently, I have received offers from several large Chinese and American companies, and I may give up my business and enter a large factory for further study.
I'm going to tell you about this experience:
In fact, it is a difficult thing to switch from nutritional science to computer science.
If it weren't for my great passion for computers, I really wouldn't have been able to stick to this path. There have been too many ups and downs during this period.
The most outrageous person I've ever met who can change majors, except for an alumnus of undergraduate English, is probably myself.
Others are at least science and engineering, mathematics, mechanics, environmental engineering, and even biology, and they need to write python for data analysis.
And my major is a major that doesn't study mathematics at all, doesn't write, and doesn't even have science and engineering thinking.
So, I haven't had much rest since I changed majors, except for holidays and trips, I do homework, brush questions and interviews, and I really took a break for 15 days for the 3-year preparatory department plus the master's degree.
When I travel, I also take my computer with me to do projects and brush up on problems in hotels and coffee shops.
It is also because of his hard work that he has been working as a teaching assistant and intern since the second year of graduate school, and after graduation, he directly found a position as a software engineer in the back-end of the Silicon Valley office of a large American company.
From internship to work, I worked in Silicon Valley for three years, doing low-level infrastructure work, pure back-end. A lot of times I'm the only girl in the group.
However, I am still a more idealistic person, although the disadvantage of changing majors does not allow me to catch up with other people's foundation and enter the top company as soon as I graduate, but after graduation, I have been working hard to improve and strive to be able to enter the top factory.
So recently, I finally got an offer from FB and Tencent's game company to be a senior engineer in a large factory.
In the application, the most important thing for everyone is how to get a prestigious school AD or even a scholarship?
Generally speaking, the scholarship requires an average GPA of 85 points or more.
In terms of Northeastern University, which I applied to, Northeastern University is a school that attaches great importance to students' measurements (TOEFL, GRE and GPA) and comprehensive quality.
That is to say, this student basically has good grades, and the school does not pay so much attention to the shining point, what they value is whether you are a good student with good rules.
Therefore, when you apply for a school, you must apply according to your personal characteristics. For example, I don't recommend applying to Northeastern University if the measurements are not good enough, but Syracuse University can give it a try.
In my understanding, GPA is the most important indicator of AD and scholarships.
But in fact, there are exceptions to everything, becauseMany private universities in the United States actually pay more attention to whether a student is worth cultivating.
And it is worth cultivating involves many aspects, including whether a person's parents are excellent, whether the family background has the ability to cultivate children, whether the child has a specialty, and whether a certain specialty is particularly good.
If there is no outstanding strength, you can also highlight the characteristics of the student who does everything well, and even whether the student is very eager to succeed.
In fact, everyone has advantages, as long as you dig out the advantages and shining points of a person, and then choose the school and direction that is suitable for application, it is not difficult to get a good school AD.
Scholarships can also be applied for by working hard to get good grades after admission, in my own example, I didn't get a scholarship when I applied to Syracuse University, but I got a scholarship from the second semester because of my good grades during my studies.
In fact, I don't want to tell too much about the story, because if you want to get good grades, school ADs and job offers, you mainly rely on hard work and strength. Finally, I hope that those who work hard will be able to achieve their dreams!