留学申请书怎么写（通用10篇）
__大学的各位领导、导师们：
您们好!
首先感谢你们能在百忙之中审阅我的个人留学申请书。
我叫___，是来自__某中学的一名高三的理科生，即将面临高考，我期望透过贵校来实现我在__大学学习的梦想。一向以来，__大学对我都有很大的吸引力，有着悠久的历史，深厚的文化底蕴，丰富的教学资源，良好的学术氛围，强烈的时代气息，__大学历经沧桑，饱经风雨，为祖国培养了许多优秀人才，取得了丰硕的科研成果，并成为我国培养高层次专门人才和发展科学技术的一个重要基地。个性是，她是我国高校中最早开始试点实行自主招生的高校之一，她爱惜人才、有职责感，不拘一格选人才。这一点很吸引我。我十分渴望能在20__年7月拿到贵校的录取通知书，成为贵校的一名学生，成为一名对社会、对祖国有用的人才。
进入高中以来，我不断为实现这一理想而努力学习文化知识，勤学善思。英语、理化是我的强势科目，英语成绩个性优异。我参加了今年的全国中学生英语创新大赛，并有幸进入复赛，虽然由于种.种原因和最后的大奖擦肩而过，但参加竞赛的这种过程使我的潜力得到了很大的提升。
除了学习成绩优秀以外，我还有多方面的特长，我参加了校园的乐队，业余时间我喜欢拉二胡，学习二胡，不仅仅丰富了我的课余生活，而且升华了我对音乐的见解，在二胡的世界中，有奔腾豪放的《赛马》，有坚定有力，追溯光明的《光明行》，也有悲愤哀怨的《江河水》，我用心参与文体活动。初中时博兴县的才艺表演大赛中获得优秀节目奖。
我不仅仅爱好计算机，在业余时间，我参加了教育部组织的计算机等级考试并取得了一级B证，而且经常用心参与体育锻炼，强健体魄，增强毅力。除此之外，我热情、开朗，乐于助人，阳光、向上，所以高中以来，我年年被评为为"三好学生"。
但是，这些成绩只能代表我的过去，梦在心中，路在脚下，站在人生的十字路口，我选取了__大学，我期望__大学能敞开怀抱，给我带给一个大发展的平台，期望各位领导和老师能理解我的申请，衷心的感谢!
此致
敬礼!
申请人：/shenqing/
__年__月__日
尊敬的_老师：
您好!提笔给您写这封信，真是需要一些勇气的。
从小在农村长大，使我更向往简单，纯实的状态和自然，和谐的环境。所以人民大学“明德博学，求实笃行”的校风和“群园幽然”的环境，正是我选择人大的原因。
我出生在一个教师家庭，祖辈和夫辈都从事着树人育材的事业，受家庭影响，我也希望自己将来从事一些教育，研究方面的工作。人文社会科学是研究社会发展演进的学科，可以通过对社会规律的正确认识知道社会变革，当前中国正处在一个大变革的时代，我希望自己将来的工作可以为这个过程尽一份绵薄之力。
我的小学和初中的学习都是在农村完成的。在那里，落后的硬件设施没有阻挡我们全面发展的脚步。事实上，因为课业压力不是太重，我们反而有更多的时间去学习如何认识自己，如何与人相处。小学和初中我都是担任班长，负责纪律和各种活动的组织。那段经历对我而言是一种砺炼，对我产生了很大影响。我曾参加镇运动会，书画比赛等都获得名次;曾经做过军乐队的指挥;担任过班级的新年晚会的组织者和主持人;也曾经被选为山西新闻协会小记者分会的小记者;也曾参加希望杯数学竞赛获奖，__年我获得了以前入团的资格。小学毕业时全镇第一名，中学毕业时以全镇第二名考入了山西省重点高中榆次一中。
初来榆次一中，环境的巨大变换和独自离家在外，我感到不是很适应，随着时间的推移，我逐渐融入了这个和我曾经习惯的环境不甚相同的集体。虽然高中阶段都是为了全力以赴迎接，但是我仍然参加了学校的志愿者活动，担任了班级的志愿者队长，《榆次一中志愿者报》编辑，还与同学一起成功举办了年级的演讲比赛。在高一，高二我连续获得了本校“福山奖学金”，高一获“校园之星”，高二获优秀学生和优秀团员称号。快乐而充实的高中，为理想而奋斗的高中，是我一生的记忆。
我是一个性格偏内向的人，也认为自己并不是适合作者。虽然多年锻炼让我受益非浅，也克服了我不少性格中的弱点。但是我还是向往平静而深刻的生活。即使不是知识分子，“一箪食，一瓢饮”的安逸乐道，“岁寒，然后知松柏之后凋”的深邃孤寂与坚守，也是每一个有灵魂的人内心深出的应有之义。
课余时间，我喜欢读书，看报，听音乐。一些学者文集是我桌边常放的书籍。如刘瑜的《民主的细节》，雷欧的《历史的进退》，钱穆的《改革得失》等等。我利用课余时间读《南方周末》。了解人情世事，开阔视野。我喜欢老歌，因为他们是经过岁月的筛选，沉淀真最精华的价值。
“三月紫丁，五月槐香”是榆次一中的特色。明年当人大“玉兰满园”的时节，希望我可以踏入人大自主招生的考场。人大是我梦寐以求的大学殿堂，感谢您百忙中阅读我的自荐信，也希望您能接受我的申请，让我实现自己的理想。
此致
敬礼!
申请人：/shenqing/
__年__月__日
Personal Statement
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am with great pleasure to submit this personal statement in support of myapplication for continuing my university education in your esteemed universityand wish you could give my application a positive and favorable assessment.
Currently, I am a junior student in International College of Hubei NormalUniversity majoring in Accounting. Thus, I have obtained great knowledge aboutbusiness for the past three years. Depending on that, I have determined topursue a Bachelor degree at your distinguished university. There are therereasons leading to me choose business, the most important reason is that I amvery interested in business. In my opinion, handling good business is the sameas successful work of art. That’s an exciting thing. The second reason is that Ihave already learnt it for three years, so I want to broaden my knowledge aboutbusiness which will benefit my future life. The third reason is that I want tobecome a successful business lady which is my dream all the time.
To be honesty, I am an average student but I have diligent and strongconfident heart. I believe that a good attitude can change bad situation. So Iam always keeping a positive attitude on my life. I never ever give up anychance of promoting my study. During my three years in Hubei Normal University，Inever fail a class and always do my best for assignment. However，in my mind,social activity is as the same important as class study. In my spare time, Itook part in student union and took charge of minister in arts department. Ourwell-organized activities attracted many students to practice themselves. Lastsummer, I joined the Work and Travel Programme to be a staff in an Americancompany for three months. I made good use of that chance to improve my oralEnglish and tasted western culture. I think I can understand and adapt to aforeign culture in a short period.
I firmly believe that anyone could acquire success by their right way andfighting. This is one of the reasons why I want to go abroad. What’s more, Iwant to taste and accept some western education. I hope that I can learn moredifferences between Chinese and British university education and widen myhorizon. Furthermore，as we know, UK is a very modern country. It owns the mostadvanced education system and top universities in the world. And graceful schoolenvironments deeply attract me. By the way, if I can learn in your university Iwould cherish and appreciate this chance. In the future, I also mean to applyMaster’s Degree in UK. But after that, I will go back to my country and look fora job related to business.
I really want to own a colorful campus life in your school, further developmy overall capabilities including organizational ability, teamwork spirit etc. Ibelieve I can adapt to a foreign life and acquire best degree. With all theabove mentioned, in terms of my understanding of business and my enthusiasm forit, I hope that I can be up to the standard of the admission requirements inyour university. I believe that my strong interest in this subject. last, mypositive attitude and comprehensive ability will facilitate my successfulcompletion of the proposed program. Thank you for your time!
Sincerely yours, Wanbin Xu
Yours sincerely,
尊敬的老师：
您好：我今年17岁，17岁是花开的季节，也是多梦的季节，从小到大我用自己的聪慧和坚韧，一步一步实现着我的憧憬和梦想，我向往着将我的聪明才智在灿若星河的导师的点拨下，使我成为于国于民用有的栋梁之材;我向往着能在传承着中华人文脉络和科技创新的校园里，薰染、陶冶和提升着自己，我选择了浙大，因为这所历经百年风雨历练的“东方剑桥”，以“求是创新”为校训，没有浮华与骄躁，严谨治学，正如我脚踏实地、不急功近利、追求水到渠成的性格;我向往着能在精英汇聚、人才济济的浙大，书写我更加璀璨的人生篇章，我想我有足够的实力和自信选择浙大，因此，我向贵校提出申请，希望能获得一个让浙大选择我的机会。
我的父母都是教师出身，承传了身为数学教师父亲的智慧，我对数字有着特殊的的敏感，严谨的逻缉思维能力和发散性的思维方式，使我徜洋在繁杂的数理化的海洋里，乐此不疲，也正因为如此，文科功底同样扎实的我，始终没有走进文科班的课堂;我对不会的东西有一种先天性的好奇，不会的东西我从不主动放弃而是追本求源，直到柳暗花明我才善罢甘休;我做事从不半途而废，学打乒乓球，我练到胳膊酸肿，最后敢和男孩比试，为参加4_100米的接力，我天天到操场上“恶补”，最后为班级夺得名次;和爸爸学下棋，我不服输宁可不吃饭;我坚信朝秦暮楚、见异思迁、飘忽不定的人永远做不成事;“咬定青山不放松”、“心有多大舞台就有多大”是我的座佑铭。业余时间我还喜欢下棋、画画、看大片，对于色彩，我有一种天生的直觉，伴着铅笔细致的线条，我在画架前度过了三年的时光，也练就了我扎实的美术功底，我的画在学校艺术节上获二等奖，我是学校校园网动漫版的版主，为此上学期我花费了太多的精力，使我的总成绩落为年级的154名，这个学期，我又奋起直追，重新回到年级55名;我的一口流利的美式英语，就得益于看美国大片，看大片不仅可以享受艺术的美并从中感受异国的文化而且还可以提高我的英语水平，从小学到初中、高中，英语奥赛先后取得了国家和市级奖二等奖。闲暇时，钢琴将我还原为一个浪漫的女孩，手指间，流出秋日的思语，这时的我宁静而又陶醉，我就不再是乒乓球台前的我，钢琴舒缓着我疲劳的大脑，我觉得好陶醉，生活好美好美!我自幼爱好文学，传承了母亲的文学嗜好，我阅读了大量的文学名著，对各国神话传说有着浓厚的兴趣，并喜爱古代诗文、现代散文，从诸子百家到游记杂谈都有所涉猎。我追随余秋雨踏上《文化苦旅》，欣赏《霜冷长河》，感悟《千年一叹》;读易中天品天下之城，随茅盾度过《子夜》，看《春蚕》、忙《秋收》，莎士比亚悲惨剧情让我痛苦，马尔克斯的魔幻现实让我神往……。
从一年级起我就担任班长，初中以后我转到了一个民办初中，也是区重点初中，刚开始他们没把我这个转校生放在眼里，加上他们进度比我原学校快，我有些吃力，但很快我凭借咬定青山的坚轫和聪慧、高效奋起直追。我从不像有的孩子学到半夜，休息日走马灯似地恶补，我注重学习效率，珍惜课堂上的每一分钟，学习时，我屏心静气，心无旁骛，放松时，我玩游戏、打乒乓、游泳、下棋、画漫画，我以令人吃惊的速度学习着进步着，一张一弛，紧张的学习让我驾驭得紧张而又活泼。同时在新的集体，我发挥我的美术、文学特长，办板报、写小品、主持新晚会，很快凭自己的人格魅力和学习成绩折服了其他同学，“两岸猿声啼不住，轻舟已过万重山”---妈妈这样形容我的初中生活。初中毕业典礼上，我以学校第一名、全市前十名的成绩举起母校送我的奖杯，我坦然面对成功，没有飘飘然忘乎所以，我知道，这个成功只是一个开始，它更让我坚信一个道理：成功不能靠偶然的机遇，靠的是脚踏实地的努力，是力量的厚积薄发，是付出后的水到渠成。
迈进这所省重点中学的校门，并进了重点班级。我没有参加任何科目的竞赛班，我只想以我的实力，扎实地学好每一门功课，在高考时凭总成绩，选择一所我向往的学校，理想的专业，我在数学、语文、英语等学科有着较大的优势，而唯在化学科目上总是找不到感觉，也影响了我的总成绩。为此今年我咬住化学弄懂弄会每一道题，很快，我的这科成绩也有了长足的进步，我相信，只要我努力，就会有收获。尽管高中生活更加紧张，但我同样抽出时间办板报、参加社会实践、义工活动。我到老年福利院帮助孤寡老人，到社区帮助残疾人家庭清扫卫生，为“挣”书钱，我和同学冒着寒风卖花卖报，社会实践使我了解社会，体会生活的甘苦，我不想成为一个呆在象牙塔里的书呆子。
“国有成均，在河之滨”，历经战争历练的浙大，坐落在桃红柳绿的西子湖畔，更以她“求是”的学风而。在对自己未来进行规划时，鉴于自己较强的数学运算能力、逻辑思维能力和对信息的捕捉和分析能力，我理想是做一个精算师，“心有多大，舞台就有多大”，我从不认为我是一个小女生，我认为我会和男孩子一样做大事、做大学问，随着高考脚步的临近，我觉得我的目标越来越清晰了，我的目标离我的理想越来越近了，我暗下决心要进入到一所我无悔的学校，我渴望浙大能助我在追寻理想的道路上走得更远，我想起母校的一句话，“今天我以母校为荣，明天母校以我为荣”，我选择浙大，带着几分自信与霸气，扬帆起程，乘风破浪，请老师给我这个机会来证明我的实力，张扬我的个性，实现我的价值。
此致
敬礼!
申请人：/shenqing/
__年__月__日
I am a student, graduated from BaoYang middle school, Nanning, GuangXiautonomous region, in _. I am still studying in high school now, because I wasnot enrolled by the ideal university last year. Recently, I have a dream tostudy abroad. Then I search online and find that it is more convenient andsuitable for me to go to New Zealand for study.
First, New Zealand is a multicultural country, which has the most advancededucation in the world. Second, the tuition is lower than other countries’,which I think is mo
re reasonable for me. Finally, the climate of New Zealand is similar withthe climate of the South of China. Considering above reasons, I told my parentsmy plan on going to New Zealand for study, and my parent agreed with me.
As a girl, I like preschool education since I was young. Nowadays, Chineseparents, who want their children to get better education, pay more attention topreschool education. If I study specialized curriculums on preschool education,I will go back China and work hard on preschool education after leavingcollege.
My plan is as follows: first, I plan to study English in language institutefor about a half year in New Zealand. Then, I will study specialized curriculumson preschool education.
I believe I have the ability of study abroad, because I have finished allhigh school curriculums. Besides, my parents both have job and have rich income,so they will support me to finish my study. After finishing my study, I willreturn to my homeland and work on preschool education, so as to realize my lifevalue.
Yours sincerely,
Monsieur le Président,
Dans le souhait d'une inscription auprès de votre université, j'ail'honneur de vous exposer ci-dessous mes principales motivations.
J'étudie le fran?ais depuis bient?t quatre ans, et j'obtiendrai malicence(bac+4) en juillet 20__ .(1)
Outre la langue fran?aise, j'ai étudié littérature fran?aise àlaquelle je m'intéresse particulièrement.(2)
Après l'obtention de mon dipl?me, j'aimerais poursuivre mes études delittérature fran?aise dans votre université réputée pour son enseignement delittérature.(3)
Or, pour entreprendre les démarches nécessaires, j'ai besoin d’uncertificat de pré-inscription délivré par votre université. C'est pourquoi jevous demande quelles conditions je dois remplir pour obtenir ce certificat etquelles sont les attesations que je devrais fournir.
Si c'est possible, pourriez-vous me faire parvenir, à l'adresse ci-dessus,un dossier d'inscription ?(4)
Vous remerciant par avance de votre bienveillance, je vous prie d'agréer,Monsieur le Président, l'expression de mon profond respect.
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Yours sincerely,
Applied Program：Organizational Behavior
I am interested in the field of study of Organizational Behavior. In thepast， I have had the experience of working in settings where the people and thecorporate cultures of the companies were all different. I have found that thereis a great difference in the both the behaviors of people and of theirorganizations， depending on whether they are state-owned enterprises (SOEs)，large multinational firms， or small to medium sized foreign enterprises. Onesimple example is that of the ability of an employee to act independentlywithout direct instructions from his or her boss. In many Chinese organizations，acting without direct instructions is considered a form of disrespect towardsthe supervisor， who is generally offended by such behavior. In my experience andresearch， such organizations tend to have low operating efficiency with theemployees losing their innate ability to take the initiative.
In contrast， foreign enterprises tend to welcome employees who have theability to make decisions on their own， though the extent to which this is truedepends on whether the supervisor is a local Chinese or an expatriate. Theseorganizat
Applied Program：Organizational Behavior
The purpose behind this personal statement is to not only gain admission toyour well-established and highly respected Ph.D. program， but to impress uponyou my passion for learning and my tremendous desire to succeed in bothscholastic research and in teaching on the professional level. I have based mydecision to pursue an academic career not on purely practical reasons， butrather on my own natural interests and aptitude. My personal philosophy is thatmoney and social status should not be pursued as life-consuming objectives andthat in actuality they are the by-products of goals originating from one's innerneeds. I understand that my intellectual capacity is a gift， and I intend to usethis gift to the very best of my substantial capabilities.
I am interested in the field of study of Organizational Behavior. In thepast， I have had the experience of working in settings where the people and thecorporate cultures of the companies were all different. I have found that thereis a great difference in the both the behaviors of people and of theirorganizations， depending on whether they are state-owned enterprises (SOEs)，large multinational firms， or small to medium sized foreign enterprises. Onesimple example is that of the ability of an employee to act independentlywithout direct instructions from his or her boss. In many Chinese organizations，acting without direct instructions is considered a form of disrespect towardsthe supervisor， who is generally offended by such behavior. In my experience andresearch， such organizations tend to have low operating efficiency with theemployees losing their innate ability to take the initiative.
Yours sincerely,
In a highly competitive environment， the ability to create competitiveedges over one's adversaries and to achieve ultimate victory in fiercecompetitions depends not so much on materials resources as on the mental factorsof intelligence and concepts. Those concepts that can lead to new visions andperspectives and those approaches that can effectively solve problems will havethe greatest value. The overriding factor which ensures the eventualmaterialization of new concepts and gives rise to effective approaches ismanagement. As a branch of applied science， the science of management hascrucial value not only for developing countries like China which are makinguttermost efforts to catch up with the developed countries， but also for theleading multinational giants in the developed countries themselves. For a personlike me who has decided to pursue marketing management as my career objective，to sharpen my intellectual caliber， to understand the essence of management andto grasp important skills of management have become my greatest aspiration.
As a Master's student specializing in marketing and enterprise strategies，I am very proud to report that I have made some encouraging researchachievements. Of the two research papers that I wrote concerning strategicdevelopment of enterprises-Enterprise Strategic Alliance Based on ResourceComplementarity and The Strategic Orientation and Countermeasures for ChineseEnterprises in International Operations in the New Millennium， the former hasbeen published by Economic Tribune in Sept. 20__ and the latter has beenaccepted for publication by China Economists in Feb. 20__. These two researchpapers are the fruition of my active involvement in a research project namedStudy on Chinese Enterprises' Cooperation-Competition Models inHyper-Competitive Conditions， which is sponsored by China State Natural ScienceFoundation (Foundation Project No. 70140132)。 Another paper entitled BrandMarketing： A Competitive Mode on a Higher Level in Modern Economics has beenpublished by Contemporary Finance & Economics in November this year. Thoseresearch achievements can unmistakably indicate my tremendous potential toperform much more ambitious researches in my future degree program and I amdetermined to develop this potential to the fullest extent.
I completed my four-year systematic studies in Engineering and ManagementScience as an undergraduate at the School of Economics and Management， BeijingUniversity of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It is precisely this undergraduateeducation that has reinforced my determination to pursue marketing management asmy lifelong career. Although as an undergraduate my understanding of somecourses cannot be described as profound (some might even be said to be rathersuperficial)， my learning of those courses nevertheless widened my ken ofknowledge and broadened my vision.
In order to further enrich myself， I availed myself of every opportunity ofacademic exchange both on campus and off campus. I shuttled among PekingUniversity， Central Finance and Economics University， and China RenminUniversity on my bicycle in order to attend lectures delivered by the country'sleading scholars and entrepreneurs. Those lectures constituted an importantsupplement to my in-class training because they were immediately connected withthe realities of Chinese society. I also benefited importantly from myextracurricular activities. As minister of the Department of Social Practices ofthe School's Students Union， I planned and organized the School's Festival ofthe Art of Management. I also canvassed Pepsi Company to sponsor ouruniversity's basketball league match. In launching those activities， I improvedmy organizational and managerial skills. In retrospection， my undergraduateprogram was most strengthened by my self-conscious attention to various appliedsubjects-higher mathematics， statistics and probability， linear algebra，operations research， etc. It can be said that my undergraduate education (inwhich my overall scholastic performance ranked top 4th in my class consisting of30 students) enabled me to make some basic preparations in theoretical knowledgeand in the application of mathematical tools.
From Sept. 1998 to April 20__， my employment with Hisense Group in QingDaoCity， Shandong Province (one of the largest manufacturers of electricalappliances in China) was a major opportunity to practice what I had learned. Thesecond year I joined the Group， the most fierce price warfare happened toChina's electrical appliances industry. Manufacturers reduced the prices oftheir products to unprecedented low levels in order to maximize their marketshare. As an act of market competition， the Marketing Department where I workedlaunched Traveling Expositions of Hisense Products. As one of the four keypersonnel of the department， I planned and organized a series of exhibitions inmost major cities in China. Our one-year efforts achieved remarkable marketeffects. In Shijiazhuan City， for instance， of a total of 30 brands， our salesof televisions and air conditioners accounted for 24% and 18% respectively in20__. In that year's performance evaluation， I was awarded the Group's ModelEmployee.
My understanding of marketing was enriched and modified by my 2-yearpractical work experience. To me， marketing was not merely composed of suchelements as product designing， promotion through advertising， pricing models，and distribution channels. It also encompassed the analysis of the behavior bothof your competitors and of consumers， studies in organization behavior， brandmanagement， and decision-makings. Believing that a more systematic educationwould contribute to a more successful career， I went back to my alma mater inSeptember 20__ and went on with a Master's program in Engineering and ManagementScience in order to gain knowledge on a higher professional level， to follow themost updated academic information， and to improve my managerial caliber.
Backed by my work experience， my academic focus became better-defined and Iwas more self-motivated in my studies. With a comprehensive coursework coveringadvanced mathematical planning， decision-making strategies， managementstatistics， and fuzzy mathematics， I achieved obvious improvement in theoreticalknowledge and in the application of tools. I developed broader perspectives andwas able to conduct my research from more advanced professional levels. Mythesis， entitled A Study of Enterprises' Strategic Alliances Based on anAnalysis of Resource Complementarity， presented a wholly novel explanation ofcorporate alliances from the perspective of resource integration， a perspectivewhich differed fundamentally from the conventional view held by most scholarswhich explained the necessity and justification of corporate alliance from theangle of transaction cost and value chain.
Instead of feeling contented with my high GPA for the Master's program(3.6)， I have come to realize how much there is still for me to learn in thefield of management， especially in marketing. Most universities in China treatmarketing purely as a theoretical course， with neither case analysis noropportunities for students to practice the theories they have learned. In termsof curriculum， studies in marketing psychology and individual behavior havehardly been undertaken. Moreover， the lack of analytical tools has resulted ininsufficient analysis of the market feedback. Realizing that such deficienciescan scarcely be overcome within a short period of time， I believe that a moresuccessful career must be pursued through a Ph.D. program outside China， ideallyin a first-rate university in the United States.
With my undergraduate and graduate background in engineering and managementscience， I would like to focus on one of the following areas in your Ph.D.program： a. marketing management; b. behavioral approaches to marketing orconsumer behavior; and c. channels of distribution. I have also drawn up mytentative career objective. I will complete my doctoral program by undertakingextensive researches and carrying out some specific projects. After obtaining mydegree， I will seek some teaching experiences in an American university whilecontinuing with advanced researches on the latest research topics. In this way Ican keep developing my academic aptitudes. After accumulating sufficientteaching and research experience， I will seek a teaching position in aprestigious university in China where I will share with my future students andcolleagues my research findings and the knowledge I have acquired in the UnitedStates. I hope to develop myself ultimately into a leading specialist inmarketing and management who can contribute to bringing Chinese scholarship inthis field onto a more advanced level.
CMU's Ph.D. program in computer science is heavily integrated with researchactivities and is designed to nurture people with raw talent and intellect in anenvironment which permits them thorough immersion in research and coursework.The program promises to produce well-educated researchers and future leaders incomputer science. I am very excited over this wonderful vision because such aprogram offers me a basis to translate my dreams into realities. Without such aprogram， many of my dreams will remain mere fantasies.
Personal Statement
人们常说，梦想有多远，人就能走多远。每次路过_大学校园，望着一群群充满朝气和才华的哥哥姐姐们，我都会憧憬着：在20_年，我一定要成为他们中的一员。_梦成为我奋斗的目标和动力。
有了目标就需要加倍的努力，这一过程是辛苦的，更充满收获的喜悦，因为我始终把学习当作一种快乐，能够充分享受获得知识的乐趣。带着渴求知识的愿望，我能够出色地完成校内课程，每次考试都能进入年级前十名。我还利用课余时间，主动参加化学竞赛和生物竞赛的培训班，并积极参加了北京市举办的各种化学、生物和物理竞赛，取得了较好的成绩。其中在化学竞赛中，获得北京化学会20_年和20_年北京市高中学生化学竞赛一等奖;在生物竞赛中，通过20_年五月的全国生物联赛笔试，进入实验复赛，并获得全国生物联赛省级赛区二等奖;在物理竞赛中，获得第三届全国高中应用物理知识北京赛区预赛一等奖、第二xx届全国中学生物理竞赛北京赛区预赛三等奖、第二十届北京市高一物理(力学)竞赛北京决赛三等奖、20__年全国高中应用物理知识竞赛三等奖。这些成绩虽然微不足道，却使我渴望成为_大学一名学子的梦想更加强烈，因为只有在那里我才能寻找到更多的学习的快乐!
丰富的课余学习一直是我高中生活中不可缺少的组成部分。化学是我最感兴趣的一门课程，其中的科学奥秘总能引起我的探究和遐想。我曾在学校的“t&s科技社团”两次举办题为“酸碱理论”和“分析化学基础”的讲座，博得了老师和同学的好评。利用学校的实验室，我对平时学习中的问题进行探究，在高一时完成了自己的第一篇科技小论文—《探究高锰酸钾在ph不同的环境中所体现的氧化性》，该论文荣获东城区青少年科技创新大赛二等奖。高二时，我参加了北京市科技俱乐部，在北京师范大学分析测试中心郑爱华教授和学校老师的辅导下完成了第二篇科技小论文—《海水阴离子含量测定与综合利用》，并在同年科技节中荣获二等奖。化学学习的不断进步增加了我的自信，使我进一步明确了前进的方向：我渴望自己将来在化学方面能够得到继续深造，并在化学研究领域取得成绩，而_大学就是我放飞梦想最好的地方。
我深知，现代化的人才应该是德智体全面发展。在担任学习委员和化学课代表的职务期间，我乐意为同学们解答问题，成为老师的好帮手。我积极参加学校组织的各种活动：酷爱羽毛球运动，与同学一起在学校创办了羽毛球社团，为喜欢羽毛球的同学提供了一个切磋球技的平台;积极参加学校每年举行的冬季长跑比赛和田径运动会，曾获得高中组长跑铜牌的成绩;踊跃参加学校组织的“西部助学行”活动，与当地学生签订了“共享同一片蓝天”的盟约，资助她的学习生活;高二寒假，参加本校与英国曼彻斯特教会学校st.monica的姊妹校的交流活动，受益匪浅。在思想上，我要求进步，多次参加学校的党课培训，并已提交了入党申请书。由于良好的思想道德和优异的学习成绩，在高一、高二年度，我都被评为学校和东城区的“三好学生”。我性格活泼开朗，乐观自信，被老师称为“阳光少年”，我渴望在_大学肥沃的绿地上做一株小草。
_大学是莘莘学子圆梦并为祖国贡献才华的圣地。我希望_大学能够给我一个展示自我的平台，我相信唯有不断的努力才会使梦想成真，我期盼着这一天的到来!
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Program： 20th Century American Literature
“The apparition of these faces in the crowds： /Petals on a wet， blackbough.” My first reaction on reading Ezra Pound's 1916 poem In a Station of theMetro was that of outrage. Is it a poem by any definition? If it is a poem， howis it to be interpreted and understood? And finally， what are the implicationsthat this poem has produced for the twentieth- century American literature?
My initial bewilderment subsided as I realized that there must a raisond'etre behind this apparently bizarre literary phenomenon. What I should do isto put this poem into the context of the American literary evolution andliterary history. At least， the poem raises an important challenge. It requiresme to understand some of the crucial changes that must be happening around theturn of the last century.
My subsequent studies indicate that this poem represents part of the largerliterary movement known as Imagism， which included such theorists andpractitioners as T. E. Hume， Hilda Doolittle， Amy Lowell， Ezra Pound， etc. Themovement was a direct reaction to the late Victorian poetry， which had becomeextremely artificial， emptily “rhetorical” and “ornamental”。 To address suchproblems， it was necessary to loosen the metrical pattern and bring it backcloser to the rhythms of ordinary speech. Consequently， the “imagist” movementhad a great deal to do with promoting experiments with free verse， advocatingamong many creeds the need “to allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject”and “to produce poetry that is hard and clear， never blurred nor indefinite.”When Archibald MacLeish said in his Ars Poetica (1926) that “A poem should notmean / But be”， he had similar concerns in his mind. Imagism， minor as it is asa literary movement， triggered important changes in literary criticism，introducing the notion of internal studies as embodied by New Criticism tosubstitute the conventional critical practices.
The foregoing incident is but one instance that happened in my study ofliterature. For a Chinese student like me， it has at least two importantimplications. First， a literary work must not be treated in isolation. Itinteracts with what is written before it and after it and this historicalperspective is one way in which we may add to our interpretation. Second， it isimportant to be acquainted with relevant literary theories when interpreting agiven literary work.
A student majoring in English (& International Trade) at the EnglishDepartment of _ University， I grew increasingly interested in literature duringthe second half of my undergraduate program. Of course， I was trained to be astudent of English language in the first place and as such I received thestandard academic training typical of a student of English major. For the firsttwo years， I primarily had intensive trainings in basic English language skillsby attending courses in advanced listening， writing， reading and oralcommunication. My distinguished academic performance is demonstrated by the fourconsecutive first-class and second-class scholarships I won from 1999 to 20__.In 20__， I was awarded the second prize in the campus-wide English compositioncontest and in 20__ the first prize in the translation contest. Anotherindicator of my scholastic achievements is the honor of Outstanding Graduate of_Province that I received by the time I completed my undergraduate program.
I started reading English novels as soon as I began my undergraduateprogram. But I primarily used it as a way to increase my vocabulary and toimprove my reading comprehension. Since the second year in my undergraduateprogram， our curriculum included five major courses related to Anglo-Americanliterature and culture： Selected Readings in English Literature， SelectedReadings in American Literature， Introduction to European Culture， The Historyof English and American Literature， Selected Readings in English & AmericanFictions. Those courses provided me with a cultural and historical frameworkwith which to understand Anglo-American literature and to know theirinterrelationships. I grew familiar with major authors and works in British andAmerican literature and gained tentative knowledge of western criticalapproaches. Books like Literary Theory—An Introduction by Terry Eagleton and20th Literary Criticism edited by David Lodge proved somewhat esoteric to me，but they allowed me to realize that there are important critical approaches verydifferent from those in Chinese literature and different from conventional onesin western literature itself.
My defining interest in British and American Literature led me to writeabout T. S. Eliot and his poetry in my thesis Dull Roots Stirred by the SpringRain—Meaning Through Imagery in T. S. Eliot's “Waste Land”(available uponrequest)。 In this thesis， I examined different groups of imagery that T. S.Eliot employed to externalize his central ideas and emotions. I also analyzedthe theoretical justifications for his virtually excessive use of imagery bytracing it to his theory of “Objective Correlative” that he proposed in Hamletand His Problems， a critical essay contained in The Sacred Wood (1920)。
In an extracurricular event， students in our department put onShakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet and I was the performer-director. Based onmy own understanding of the play， I changed its tragic ending and made it ahappy one by allowing the hero and the heroine to be resurrected and reunited. Ibelieve that a love of such intensity should be fulfilled， otherwise it would betoo pathetic.
In the last semester of my undergraduate program， I was recruited by myuniversity to teach the course Appreciation of American Literature to studentsof non-English major. By applying my computer skills， I developed a series ofcourseware， covering different periods of American literature and illustrated bygraphics and diagrams to make an otherwise difficult course interesting and easyto understand.
Nevertheless I am fully aware that my knowledge of American literature isfar from sufficient. I need to receive more advanced education for the sake of abetter career development. Therefore I plan to apply for a Graduate program inEnglish at the University of _， concentrating on modern and contemporaryAmerican literature. Your program is nationally recognized (listed as among thetop 10 in _ according to _) and it attacks me for its quality， small size andclose mentorship. I am interested in your well-designed curriculum whoseContemporary American Literature， American Literary History， Special Topics inAmerican Literature， American Literature 1865-1914， 1914-1960. Among your 13professors， I would like to receive instructions from _， _， _. _， and _. Ibelieve I am well-prepared and genuinely motivated for your program， which willteach me the knowledge and expertise nowhere to be sought in my own country.