When planning activities, there are some problems that all students need to pay attention to:
Long duration
In the application materials, it is very important for the continuity of an activity. Students need to show the admissions officer their persistence in this activity and the profound insights gained in the process of persistence. Sporadic and discontinuous activities will give admissions officers a feeling of "doing activities for the sake of doing activities, but not really involved" At the same time, in order to catch up with the list of activities before the application season, it is not advisable to piece together activities. At the same time, only if you devote yourself wholeheartedly to this activity and persist in it, can you have a profound experience and show the influence of these activities on students in the document.
Professional relevance
Students' activities should be related to their major, so that they can show their interest in this field to the admissions officer at the application stage and prove their strength in this field. Of course, this doesn't mean that you won't participate in activities in other fields at all. It is also important to expand your abilities in the application, but the focus should be on activities related to your major. Remember, when doing activities related to this major or participating in related competitions, activities closely related to this major cannot be ignored. For example, students who are very sure to apply for engineering must pay attention to engineering activities, such as robot competitions, while physics competitions and mathematics competitions are more inclined to science activities, which are related to engineering, but not "right" engineering activities.
Gold content of currency
Doing activities will inevitably consume a lot of time and energy. At this time, we should seriously consider the gold content of the activity. Activities with low gold content will not greatly promote the background in application. Activities with high gold content include, but are not limited to, international competitions, screening summer schools, and laboratory internship programs. Here are some high-value competitions and summer schools. (In descending order of gold content)
Competition category:
Intel Science and Engineering Competition (ISEF)
Regardless of science and engineering students or social science students, ISEF is the most valuable international competition, and the finalists will be very competitive in their applications. The students who win the finals are even the goals of TOP 15 university. Students who won the final gold, silver and bronze prizes in the past can successfully enter Hayepsma.
ISEF is suitable for students who are sure of standardization or have scores, because this project takes a long time and requires high quality of students' own disciplines, and is called the "Olympics" of middle school students' science competition. China students participating in the ISEF project are mainly selected from the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition.
Google Science Fair
In application, it is slightly less competitive than ISEF, but it is also an excellent choice for science and engineering students. After entering the semi-finals, the gold content has advanced by leaps and bounds, even more valuable than entering the ISEF final.
3. American Association of High School Mathematics (ARML)
ARML is divided into team competition and individual competition. Since China does not participate in the American ranking, it needs to reach the top 5 in China or the personal ranking 10 to be competitive.
4. American Olympic Games
There are mathematics, physics, biology, computer and chemistry in the Olympic Games. Students from China can't take part in the finals in the United States, but they will be more competitive if they win the gold medal.
5. International Sustainable Energy Engineering and Environment Competition
You can sign up for domestic competitions on Astan China, and the champion and runner-up will have the opportunity to participate in the American finals. If you win a gold medal or a silver medal, the gold content will be high.
6. Academic Decathlon (USAD)
Only team champions or individual champions can compete in the competitions held by USAD in China.
7. Army Materiel Command
The top 5% AMC in the world is playing a less and less role in the application, but the top 1% or AIME score is still very convincing.
8.NEC national economic challenges
Organized by American Economic Education Association, it will be more valuable to enter the finals in China and China. If you can enter the final in the United States and win the prize, the competitiveness of business applicants will have a qualitative leap.
Summer school category:
Teliured Summer Project (TASP)
The "RSI" in the liberal arts field is a summer school for writing and discussing, but the admission rate is lower than.
6%, receiving the offer from this summer school is equivalent to two feet entering the door of TOP 10 or even TOP5.
2. Summer Science Plan
Summer science
The project is also a summer science school. To apply for this summer school, you need several valuable mathematics or science awards, such as Aime(AMC's top 5% in the world), physics, biology and mathematics Olympic competition awards. The admission rate of SSP is about 10%.
3. Ross Math Camp (Ross)
In the math camp of Ohio State University, there is a set of math questions to be written online when applying, which are screened according to the applicant's real math level. This project lasted about six weeks, and now Ross China Camp has been opened in Asia. The admission rate is around 15%-20%, so it should be easier for China Camp to apply.
4. Stanford Mathematics Camp (SUMaC)
The admission rate is 7-8%, which is suitable for students majoring in mathematics and computer.
5. Boston University Taigelin Conservatory of Music Summer Program
Finally, there is a summer school for art students, and I am moved to cry. There are eight projects in total, and the admission rate is different. No more, thank you.
6. Berkeley Summer Course on Applied Logic and Cognition (SPARC)
Summer program of applied rationality and science
Cognition, this is a summer project that you can tell from the name whether it is your own dish. I don't need to say more. The admission rate is about 10%.
7. Wharton business leaders in the business world.
I heard that three people were recorded in China last year, the Golden Key Project of Business. According to the data, the final Wharton admission rate after participating in this program is as high as 35%, but this summer program itself needs a lot of valuable business activities to be admitted. Only for students of 1 1 age, the admission rate is about 20%.
8. Florida Science Training Program for Middle School Students (SSTP)
The famous SSTP is suitable for science and engineering. The admission rate is about 20%.
9. Notre Dame University Leadership Seminar.
The admission rate is about 10%, and 20 17 has three different emphases: science and technology, international business and artistic society.
10. new york university disco art school summer project.
Tisch high school summer vacation
As an art college at the top of the American pyramid, Tisch has seven programs, including film production, dance and photography, with an admission rate of about 30%.
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12. Yale Global Young Scholars Program
Total * * * has six projects to choose from, whether it is science, engineering, liberal arts or business, you can find your own corresponding project. Someone went to this summer school and was admitted to Yale. This editor also went to YYGS that year. Why didn't he get in? The admission rate is 30%. If you are interested in applying, please look at this edition of the document and resume.