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如何回答Common?App中的简答题?(2012-12-05 14:07:38)Writing?College?ApplicationsBy?Joyce Slayton Mitchell?The first thing that the dean of admissions reads about you is your application.??Your college application is you. Be sure that you give it your best thoughts.?美国大学的招生官首先是通过你在Common App中的申请信息来了解你的。申请表代表的是你本人，所以要努力在申请中尽可能地展示自己最好的一面。?Short Answers Call for Creativity做简答时要体现创意性?The application often includes questions asking for short answers or only one paragraph or 150 characters.??Many students think because they are short answers that they are not as important as the essay.???You should know that short answers are very important because they are an opportunity for you to say more about who you are. The question, “Why are you applying to Bentley? or Dickinson or Ohio State or Cornell is asked because the admissions officer wants to know how well you know their college.??How well you researched their university.?申请中的问题通常是简答题，一段话或是150字的短文。许多同学认为简答题不如论文重要。然而，大家应该意识到简答题十分重要，因为你可以通过简答题更多的描述自己。“为什么申请本特利大学,狄更斯学院，俄亥俄州立大学或者康奈可大学？”招生官一般问这些问题是想知道你对他们大学有多少了解，做过多少调查研究。?Sometimes the short-answer question is “What do you want to major in?”??Most Chinese students answer Accounting or Engineering.???By writing what everyone else is writing, you are throwing away an opportunity to say more about who you are if you write what everyone else in China is writing.??Instead, you can say something in general.??For example, “I don’t know what I will choose for my major, but right now mathematics is my favorite subject.” Or, “Everyone in my family says I should be an engineer because I like physics, but all I know is that I want to keep learning more science; I am not sure which science I’ll like best in college.” Or, “As much as I like math, I have to say that it’s music that interests me most right now. I don’t want to go to a music conservatory, but I do want to be sure there are plenty of music opportunities for me at university.” See what I mean? Doesn’t that make sense? The dean learns a lot