本人现在在美国上学,托福目前94,12月还会再考一次。 九年级转10年级。GPA 4.0,学校成绩很好。 特长很多(音乐,舞蹈,画画),在银行当过实习生。
择校方案为Worcester Academy, Pomfret School, The Gunnery, Kimball Union Academy, Dana Hall School。大家看这样可以吗? 能否给推荐一些其他学校, 想申请至少6所。
谢谢大家!
首先,很抱歉没有给学生一个详细的选校原因,引发了了大家的讨论,在这里,我具体说一下选校原因,希望学生可以受用:学生目前托福94分,再考一次,希望可以冲刺到100分以上。学生自己给出的学校较为保守,综合学生自己描述的情况,我给出以上几所综合水平较高的学校,希望可以作为已有选校补充。 Suffield Academy: 学校招生官Terry告诉我,学校录取TOEFL成绩最低分是60,但学校希望申请者托福达到90分。托福94分,完全可以尝试申请Suffield. 另外, Suffield更加愿意录取有美国学习经验的中国学生和各方面都有突出表现的学生(高GPA,有能力特长等)。之所以称其为保底学校,是在翻译时有些误导和歧义,事实上是想表示,这所学校在我们推荐的所有学校中,学生申请到的几率最大。“…calling this a 保底学校 is a little confusing. They absolute TOEFL minimum is 60 but due to the HUGE # of applicants from China, they really want people over 90. They have a girl from Kazakstan who is 60, but this is a deliberate attempt to diversify their international group. A 94 TOEFL will make them an appealing choice for the school. That having been said, as one of a large # of Chinese people applying, they will prefer Chinese students who have study abroad experience already and still need to be that well rounded students, to get in…”
Hi, 你好!Worcester Academy对于学生有点屈才了,其它学校都是不错的学校。
推荐可以尝试申请以下几所学校Deerfield Academy (冲刺学校), Tabor Academy (冲刺学校), Northfield-Mount Herman School, Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Groton Academy (以上三所为目标学校), Suffield Academy (保底学校)。
Northfield-Mount Herman School, Wilbraham & Monson Academy这两所学校前者托福要求为95,后者要求稍低一些(曾经帮助一名托福94分学生咨询过,94分语言成绩完全可以),建议学生考一下SSAT,两所学校均要求SSAT。在和我之前的同事,曾经在Wilbraham & Monson 任校长的Mr. LaBreque交流时,他说过学校非常重视国际生群体,例如,学校会为国际学生提供本国家饮食(会为中国学生提供大米粥);在住宿上面,学校考虑到让国际学生多用英文交流,会在分配宿舍时让中国学生会与美国学生或者其他国家同学同住等。所以我建议,两个学校要二选一的话,学生可以考虑后者 :)“…Northfield-Mount Herman & Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Should be just about right. The 94 TOEFL will make them competitive applicants. They will again be competing with a large # of applicants, but with the 94 TOEFL, they should be right near what they are looking for, providing the grades and other abilities and interests work out. I would say that of these two schools, I would pick WMA. They are a great school and take really good care of their international community.They provide some amazing food choices (clearly the only school that has DaMiZhou with Xiancai for breakfast, for example). They also insure that no two people with the same native language live together.”
学生如果想要拼搏一把,可以冲刺名校Deerfield,Tabor和Groton。期待学生托福能够考到105或者以上,可以冲刺Deerfield。Groton表面上说托福录取要求是90分,但实际上,学生要达到100分以上才可以。Groton是一所很小的学校,这就意味着每年招生人数也很少。Tabor稍微好一些的是,学校规模稍大一些,所以开放录取的人数也会相对多一些,但这并不是保证,还需要和学校核实。最近刚和在Tabor就读的10年级的一名中国学生进行了交流,学生被录取时的托福成绩是95分。招生官Stephen是我的多年好友,13年前就来Milton听我的课。他介绍说,录取这位学生完全是因为他的综合实力,托福仅仅是参考,现在这位学生年级排名前五,担任年级学生会主席。“Deerfield has a hard TOEFL of 105. This will be a reach even with a 105 TOEFL.
Groton: On the surface only has a 90 TOEFL limit, but they will be just as difficult because they are a much smaller school. They'll have far less spots and have 200 people applying for what will wind up being 2 spots. Chances are not great.
Tabor might actually be easier in the sense that as they are a much bigger school, they might have more spots open to fill. While I think there would be NO GUARANTEE that they'd get in, I would still say that they should give Tabor a try…”
PS:Michae博士会将自己的观点写成英文并和翻译助手进行口头沟通,助手会将Michael博士表达的观点(口头和书面)翻译成中文,如果在翻译上有偏差,还希望大家可以谅解,之后Michael博士的原英文观点也将和中文翻译一同呈现出来。
另外,Michael博士在Milton Academy工作27年,期间曾担任中国项目主管,国际学生主管,国际学生社团负责老师等。期待Michael博士会为中国学校和家长带来更加authentic and original的观点!