How to write the application document for studying abroad? Natural light is here today to share secrets. When applying to overseas art schools, we all know the importance of the collection of works. It can reflect your excellent artistic quality and professional ability, but can it let the admissions officer fully understand you? Therefore, a series of application documents for art study abroad are needed. The documents are like the second face except for the works collection, which directly reflect the background of the applicant, highlight their advantages in the form of words, which can better impress the admissions officer and make the application more effective with less effort.
Contents of application documents for art study abroad
But just documents include CV, PS, Resume, essay, RL... What are the general contents and differences? Let's tidy it up.
CV：Curriculum Vitae
CV is a relatively objective and detailed personal resume, focusing on highlighting the applicant's academic ability, such as professional background, research content, academic achievements, etc. The experience gained in study, internship, work, competition and charity can be fully written into CV.
PS：Personal Statement
Personal statement is to let the admissions officer know who you are and why you are interested in this major by describing your own experience and background? What have you learned in your major in the past? What are your expectations and plans for the future.
Resume
It refers to the resume that you are familiar with, which introduces your personal information, such as basic information, educational experience, professional skills, personal advantages, etc. in concise language and standard format.
Eassy
Short essay, about 500 words in length, with proposition and content tips listed in general colleges and universities.
RL：Recommendation Letter
The recommendation letter is generally written by the applicant's supervisor and professor, with the purpose of understanding the students from another perspective through the description of others.
Secret script of application for studying abroad:
After understanding their basic contents, you may wonder how to select the experience of writing so many similar but slightly different documents? How to describe in detail? How to complement each other to present advantages in an all-round way? "Pieced together" into a complete and excellent you? Today, we have summarized 4 script scripts to see the answers from professional document teachers!
Highlight your own highlight moment
In the role of application documents for studying abroad, the most important thing is to show your uniqueness and excellence. And through language, we can tell the school what you really look like, what you have experienced in the past, what projects you have done in the professional field, and how you have grown up. Through these experiences, the school can learn about you. Its creative process is essentially a process of "I write my heart", so it is important to collect materials about experience in the documents.
Kim Smith's request for PS, screenshot from the official website
Generally, we would suggest that students first list their extracurricular practices, team activities, or internship experiences related to their majors, and then connect the materials in the whole material list in a certain emotional and logical order to write a first draft of a document. Why should students do it by themselves first? Because when students write such a whole article, they will unconsciously put their emotions into it. After they are moved, the final article is a very complete narrative process.
The second step is to write by professional clerical teachers according to the materials provided by students. You may think that it is the students' own experience, so why let others write it? Because the direction of the content of the student's first draft is not necessarily correct, the teacher needs to adjust the content according to your material list. Especially because of the lack of experience and understanding of the requirements of colleges and universities, the focus of the article is not prominent and the level is not obvious.
Some students think that the important experience is not important to the admissions officer. For example, what you applied for is Studying Abroad in Fashion Design However, it is not helpful to write your level 10 Taekwondo in the document, because academic background should be emphasized here. According to the document you wrote or the material table you filled in, the teacher will sort it out into a document that may be completely different, but with smooth thinking and clear priorities.
I once met a student who wrote a 3000 word document to the teacher, and finally the teacher decided to reduce every sentence to 800 words. The student was very satisfied with the final document, and felt that the document was not only short and concise, but also showed its own characteristics. The application documents for studying abroad need to be short and concise, but the more content the students provide, the better, because the more content, the more teachers can understand you, and the more room for improving the documents. Some students may have a headache. What if they can't write a single word in the document? What is the ultimate secret of a document?
Many students have complained to me about this: I just don't have any ideas. I can't write a word. In fact, it is also very easy to solve. When facing the problem on the material collection form, most students feel that their biggest difficulty is that they have no experience to say, especially some students who are still in high school and apply for undergraduate education with zero foundation. Because there are many students in this situation, the participants of natural light students' document planning are not only students and document teachers, but also communicate with students' parents in the regular document parent meeting for students' parents, learn about students from multiple perspectives, and collect more materials.
At the same time, it will also connect with students' art teachers across departments to update the content in the document in real time according to students' progress and activities. Through the relevant communication process with the teachers of the portfolio, we can understand the advantages of students from a professional perspective, so as to extract the essence that can be incorporated into the document, and help students to reach a higher level of professionalism.
In natural light, it can not only reflect the personal advantages of students, but also match with the application institutions. Professional documents are jointly created by students, parents, document teachers and art teachers.
Combination of art field and high language standard
The application document for art study abroad is actually a very special field, because we should not only professionally concentrate the highlights of our works and internship experience in the document, but also ensure that the language and grammar are 100% accurate. Language errors in the documents can be said to be the biggest negative impact, especially when applying for design majors. How can the admissions officer believe that a student who has errors in the documents can become a meticulous designer?
No mistakes is the entry level. Although there is no need for difficult vocabulary and writer like literary talent in the document, the language should be standardized as far as possible, using professional and written vocabulary, and avoiding single and unchanged sentence patterns, because from the perspective of the admissions officer to read readers, changeable sentence patterns can certainly provide a better reading experience.
To meet the above basic requirements, it is also necessary to ensure that the document language is natural, comfortable and fluent. At the same time, they have a deep linguistic foundation, which is why native speakers are so important in the process of document writing and review, because they can help you correct the inherent expression errors in Chinese thinking. Many times, these errors are unknown to our Chinese people.
There are a lot of overseas resources in the Natural Light document team. During the year when we worked with Native Speaker, we guided students to complete many excellent documents from different perspectives of East and West. In addition to the second touch up of the native speaker, the natural light will also have overseas admissions officers look up students' application documents from a professional and institutional perspective, help students polish their application documents in the form of 1V1 guidance, and ensure the quality of students' documents in a multi-level and multi-dimensional way.
Understand the essence of specialty and "cater" to professional needs
We mentioned above that the degree of understanding of the major needs to be reflected in the application documents for studying abroad. As students, the major and college to be applied for may have never known before. As a clerical teacher, no matter how experienced, excellent or capable a teacher is, he or she can't guarantee that he or she can understand all the majors thoroughly. Moreover, with the change of the industry, overseas colleges and universities will constantly adjust their majors.
Therefore, a deep understanding of the professional characteristics of art schools, the expectations of the dean of the admissions officer and the true feedback of students at home and abroad on these majors can more specifically tap the highlights of students' own cases, purposefully integrate the excellence of their collection of works and future career planning into the document creation, and echo the collection of works in words, To "cater" to the expectations of the admissions officer and the dean of the department for students.
For example, the central government Saint Martin Creative Industries and Applications In fact, MA Application Imaging in Creative Industries essentially solves problems in life through creative thinking and interdisciplinary ideas. To some extent, this major in Central Saint Martin has some similarities with the BBA STRATEGIC DESIGN&MANAGEMENT of Parsons School of Design. Therefore, in the brainstorming stage of documents, students applying for these two majors can exchange ideas with each other in the early training, so as to broaden the vision of document creation.
In addition to the professors and admissions officers of the colleges and universities, Natural Light Overseas Campus has also teamed up a number of outstanding graduates to understand the characteristics of different majors from the perspective of graduates through relevant interviews. We not only interviewed many outstanding Chinese graduates, but also many local students and graduates in the UK and other regions of Europe. Through these outstanding graduates' sharing of application documents and their understanding of their majors, students can effectively avoid the limitations of Chinese students' professional understanding, broaden the ideas of document creation, and provide more inspiration for the creation of application documents.
What is the ultimate secret of the application document for art study abroad?
My colleagues and I have asked many admissions officers about this question. What is a good document. Most of the admissions officers gave me a surprising answer: sincerity.
What is sincerity, they told me, is difficult to define, but you can feel it. You can honestly describe that one of your relevant internship experiences is sincere, you can carefully analyze your skills, the details of the project you have completed are sincere, and you can seriously explain why you want to study in this school and why you want to study in this major. Sincerity cannot be separated from the control of details. Try to avoid empty words in the documents, and avoid generalized words in the case description.
Sometimes sincerity is even the casual expression in words. This is why all document teachers want students to spend a certain amount of time to calm down and write documents slowly. They should learn to pour their feelings and hearts into articles and forget time and self in writing, which is the cornerstone of creating excellent documents.
Return to nature, write down your understanding of this major, your love for this major, and your efforts and dedication to your dream with your true feelings. These may be the ultimate weapon of a good document.
The application teacher is not a "keyman customer service" who urges you to hand in materials, helps you fill in forms and asks you to pay fees. In fact, they are the all-around hero group that escorts you to Dream School from the very beginning and help you get the ideal offer with 18 kinds of martial arts.
What is the shortest time from starting to prepare the materials to entering the school? The answer is the shortest year! In this more than one year, we will go through dozens of procedures: early school selection, time planning, TOEFL IELTS sat score sending, filling in online applications, document polishing, work collection data polishing, coaching interviews, late visa, appointment interviews... During this period, every student will have a special application teacher to help you communicate with domestic schools, foreign schools, examination institutions Third party certification agencies, embassies and other different types of institutions and individuals deal with; All the contact information you can think of will be used: email, phone, WeChat, skype, mail.
The application team of Natural Light has an average of 5 years of application experience. They are very familiar with all application processes, steps and details, and have rich experience in dealing with special situations and emergencies. The application service of natural light has led thousands of students and parents to successfully go through the journey of applying for higher education full of unknown. If you have more questions about application documents for studying abroad, please find Natural Light for free consultation.
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