和這裏的父母分享隻為咱們華人孩子上好學校總結經驗、竅門和捷徑,別無它意。
兒子有個同學,也是個小中,聰明是很聰明,但平時念書不認真,常忘了交作業,寫
PAPER什麽的也不當回事兒,高中四年下來GPA 不怎麽高,估計因為上課稀鬆,老師對他印象也一般般,課外活動什麽的也乏陳可述。按美國大學申請的要求的主要幾項:ESSAY,GPA,推薦信,課外活動,他都不在前列。可他有一條優勢,會考試,
SAT考的很好,可在美國光SAT成績好也沒用。他父母一急之下想到了歐洲的好大學,據說牛津劍橋的錄取隻看入學考試,和國內高考似的,加上參照SAT。他結果考英國的考試考的極好,一舉被牛津和劍橋雙雙錄取(好像是)。在美國他也報考了一堆學校結果連伯克利都沒取,更別提藤校什麽的了。
這個經驗可以用於有類似背景,明年要報考的孩子,象
GPA什麽的已經無法補救了,但申請其它國家的好學校是條好的出路,尤其想牛津劍橋一類的,還是很值得的。下麵是兒子學校今年的錄取詳情,學校的分組有我個人主觀因素,請大家別介意
College Attending | 2009 | % | 2006-2008 | % | |||
Harvard University | 3 | 2% | 14 | 3% | |||
Princeton University | 3 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
Yale University | 3 | 2% | 3 | 1% | |||
Brown University | 4 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
Columbia University | 1 | 1% | 5 | 1% | |||
Cornell University | 5 | 3% | 8 | 2% | |||
Dartmouth College | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
University of Pennsylvania | 4 | 2% | 22 | 5% | |||
Total Ivy | 25 | 15% | 64 | 14% | |||
Oxford University | 1 | ||||||
California Institute of Technology | 2 | 1% | 7 | 2% | |||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 1% | 15 | 3% | |||
Stanford University | 9 | 5% | 15 | 3% | |||
Total Top | 13 | 8% | 37 | 8% | |||
Total Ivy+ Top | 39 | 23% | 101 | 22% | |||
Amerst | 2 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Swarthmore College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Williams College | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Wellesley College | - | 0% | 9 | 2% | |||
Smith College | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Claremont McKenna College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Harvy Mudd College | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Pomona College | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
Prizer College | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Scripps College | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
Bryn Mawr | 1 | 1% | 0% | ||||
Occidental College | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
College of William and Mary | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Pepperdine | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Total LAC | 10 | 6% | 20 | 4% | |||
Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1% | 15 | 3% | |||
Johns Hopkins University | 2 | 1% | 4 | 1% | |||
Duke University | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
Georgetown University | 2 | 1% | 3 | 1% | |||
New York University | 5 | 3% | 7 | 2% | |||
Northwestern University | 1 | 1% | 4 | 1% | |||
University of Chicago | 1 | 1% | 8 | 2% | |||
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | - | 0% | 3 | 1% | |||
University of Michigan | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Washington University in St. Louis | 4 | 2% | 3 | 1% | |||
Total Good | 18 | 11% | 50 | 11% | |||
UC Berkeley | 19 | 11% | 46 | 10% | |||
UC Los Angeles | 1 | 1% | 14 | 3% | |||
UC Davis | 1 | 1% | 19 | 4% | |||
UC Irvine | 3 | 2% | 8 | 2% | |||
UC Merced | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
UC Riverside | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
UC San Diego | 8 | 5% | 26 | 6% | |||
UC Santa Barbara | 3 | 2% | 7 | 2% | |||
UC Santa Cruz | 4 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
University of Southern California | 26 | 16% | 39 | 8% | |||
Total UC +USC | 65 | 39% | 169 | 37% | |||
Academy of Art University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Albion College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Bentley College | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
Boston College | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
Boston University | 3 | 2% | 16 | 3% | |||
California College of the Arts | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
California Polytechnic State University | 4 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
Colgate University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Connecticut College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Creighton University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
De Anza College | 2 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Eckerd | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Elon | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Embry-Riddle | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Emory University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
FDU College at Florham, Madison, NJ | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Illinois Institute of Technology | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Lehigh University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Lewis & Clark College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Loyola Marymount | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
Northeastern University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Pacific Union College | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Pennsylvania State University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Purdue University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3 | 2% | 1 | 0% | |||
Rice University | 1 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
Saint Louis University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Saint Mary's College of California | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
San Francisco State University | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
San Jose State University | 1 | 1% | 6 | 1% | |||
Santa Clara University | 3 | 2% | 16 | 3% | |||
Sarah Lawrence College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
School of the Arti Institue of Chicago | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Seattle University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Sewanee, the University of South | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
Sonoma State University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Southern Methodist University | - | 0% | 3 | 1% | |||
The Citadel, the Military College of SC | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
The George Washington University | 2 | 1% | 3 | 1% | |||
The University of Texas, Austin | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Tufts University | 1 | 1% | 4 | 1% | |||
Tulane University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Univ. of Zurich | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of British Columbia | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of Connecticut | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of Portland | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of Redlands | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
University of Rochester | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
University of San Diego | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of San Francisco | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
University of the Pacific | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of Washington | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
University of Wisconsin, Madison | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Vassar College | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
Villanova | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
West Valley College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Whitman College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Willamette University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
Total All Others | 34 | 20% | 119 | 26% | |||
Total: | 166 | 459 |