关于ps的讨论

关于ps的讨论
http://www.gter.net 2002-10-08 22:49:39 华南网木棉站

发信人: arcane (考拉熊Zzzz~~~~), 信区: Abroad
标题: 转载关于ps的讨论
发信站: 华南网木棉站 (Tue Oct 30 00:38:18 2001), 转信

这也是我对推荐信的看法
重要的是学术能力
不过，申请这东西，很说不准
说不定你的ps推荐信就对了commitee的胃口，谁知道那？

发信人: kurtzjs (垃圾～睡不着), 信区: Abroad WWW-POST
标题: Re: ps recletter请教
发信站: 武汉白云黄鹤站 (Sun Oct 28 14:08:23 2001) , 转信

你的ps很牛，对于申请top10的学校（尤其是fellowship）
很有用，因为你的ps要经过严密的committe的审阅
竞争者是一大堆高人，必须出类拔萃
但是对应现在的局势和对自己水平的估计
（我要争取的是20名以后的ra）
我不敢选择一种全面能力展示的写法
关于ps的写作，pman给我会的一封信很有启发
我贴在下面，大家看看有否帮助：
Hello! kurt,

Sorry for reply late. Because I have to hand in paper in time.
You background and PS is really good. In my opinion, you are
overqualified to get offers from universities whose EE rank below 80.
About
choosing
institutions, you should count the number of active professors in your
field at universities list. Because most of universities only recruit 2~5
students in power (I am not clear other fields). Typically, it is very
likely
for a professor to recruit one to two PhD students a year.Therefore, luck
is very important. That is why many applicants apply for over 10
universities
at once.

Something you may notice when you apply is:

In my view, the reason why US professors want to give your RA is that
he need a person with academic qualification in his specific field to
work on his research project. You can imagined you were the professor.
Prof
got a research funding for his proposal. Then, he decided to choose a
graduate student to assist him, most of them from China. He/she will
review
hundreds of PS. and make decision within perhaps one week. So he will
only
read
the part of a PS , in which he is interested in. For rest of the
statement,
he will just skip it. You can understand how stupid a student is if he
wrote a big paragraph in his genius childhood.

Therefore, my suggestion as follows,
1) Using easy-understanding sentences. because it can help professor
grasp your meaning.
2) At the beginning of the statement, state your academic objective
and field. I think the field should not be too narrow in order to
improving your chance.
3) Describing your research , esp. in your graduate paper. If you have
done other research work, write down on your PS.
4)Other things related to academic studying.

That's my personal suggestion. You can modify your ps if you agree
with some of my points. But I think your PS is just the kind I like. :)

Because I am not good at English idiom and grammar, you'd better to
ask English teacher or native speaker to review your PS and point out
grammar mistakes after you finish it.

Any thing I can do for you, just tell me.

Good Luck!

Huaiwei Liao

【在 GoAbroad (寄托) 的大作中提到: 】
: 呵呵，讨论问题而已，不必sorry.
: 我也想写的少，可是实在少不了，一环扣一环，
: 从兴趣的缘起到知识的丰富，
: 从书本的知识到实际经验的获得(特别是一些同专业相关的project)，
: 从课堂里走到课堂外，
: 从活动的参加者到活动的组织者，
: 从被管理者到管理者，
: 虽然不能面面具到，可是也表现了一个丰富多彩的人的生活和奋斗，
: 我想如果能在千字内搞定(当然我也希望越少越好了)就很幸运了。
: 呵呵，也许是我的英文功底不行，只能送给美国的亲友帮着改了，
: 看能删除多少。
:
: 【在 kurtzjs (垃圾～睡不着) 的大作中提到: 】
: : sorry，500字我说的是rl
: : ps当然还是要写多一点点，但是也不能太多了
: : 我的写了850，国外的师兄们说最好还要减少，当然不减也无所谓
: : 我现在越来越觉得对于研究生，如果没有深厚的英文思维和写作能力
: : 把ps写成resume的详细版是最简单最实用的
: : 【在 GoAbroad (寄托) 的大作中提到: 】
: : : FT,500也太不可能了吧，随便一篇T作文就300多字，你要介绍你的专业背景
，
: : : 要介绍你完成的project,介绍你选择当前这个专业的原因，还要介绍走入
: : : 研究生阶段后的情况，怎么可能在500字搞定呢？能打在1000字以内已经
: : : 不错了。
: : .................（以下省略）
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