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[转]一个拿到纽约大学Stern商学院的朋友写给我的一封email，谈到了关于申请商学院的建议和经验来源：email比较长，讲的也非常全面，看完以后对我的帮助也很大。尤其是essay和ps方面。很多中国学生觉得这两个不是很重要，随便写写或者套中介的模板就行。我的看法是千万千万千万不要这么做，录取委员会的教授们每天阅申请无数，一个平凡的ps和雷同的模板式eassy他们一眼就能看出来，中国学生的gpa和tofel gre gmat成绩一般都不差，要想让自己stand out，核心竞争力我认为就在履历，ps和essay上。 下附翻译内容，我翻译的很粗糙，尽量看原文吧。??Hi Cassandra!?Ive gone and written you a long, long email. ?It has helped me to clarify some of my ideas about business school, and I thought it might be interesting to send to some of my friends in the future if they ever consider business school. I havent discussed EMT at Stern specifically, because although that is my planned major, I wont start until September so I cant tell you much yet. I did, however, just finish the whole application process, so I am very familiar with that and have described my experience in detail below. So apologies about the length and lack of specifics on Stern, but I hope this is helpful.?The preamble:?Youve got a long, long time to prepare, so my first piece of advice would be not to think too far ahead. ?I know you probably hear this all the time, but the most important thing for your application is that you follow your interests, study what youre interested in, and do what you do best and do it well. ?It also means making sure that you are well-rounded, that you take time to pursue hobbies and activities outside of class, and that you remember to push your boundaries and do some activities that will make you grow as a person.?One of the big differences between Business School and other graduate schools is that they arent necessarily looking only at academic achievement. ?B-Schools want to pick a class of well-rounded, experienced people from diverse and interesting backgrounds. ?This makes for a much more equitable (or sometimes much more random) selection process. ?Unlike Law School, where a certain GPA and LSAT score can almost guarantee admittance, with B-School, you often find people with lower grades or lower scores but really strong experience ar