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個人陳述是申請歐美國家大學錄取時由申請人寫的介紹自己的文章。歐美大學錄取學生和發放獎學金，一般都是通過全面綜合考察申請者的條件來決定的。因此個人陳述是申請入學甚至是獲取獎學金的極為重要的組成部分，也是申請者向學校推薦自己的最佳方式。

個人陳述不同于學校成績和語言成績，要向學校展示你的專業能力、研究方向以及對自己前途的看法，個人陳述的主要寫作內容和層次包括:做過什么研究、寫過什么論文、赴國外學習的目的和專業計劃、個人能力和品德以及完成學業之后的打算等。

申請者應力爭寫好“個人陳述”，把自己美好的、獨特的一面展現 在所申請的學校面前，給人留下深刻的印象，以獲得更多的錄取機會。然而，要寫好“個人陳述”并非易事，不少人都覺得難以下筆，不知怎樣表達自己的意思。下面就向大家介紹些經驗。

一、展示獨特之處

“個人陳述”顧名思義即“陳述個人特有之處”，展現自己富有個性的一面。這樣的陳述不應像官樣文章、如出一轍，因為每個人的經歷不同，對學習、工作、就業等感受也不一樣，因而申請者要獨具新意，充分展現自己與眾不同之處。為此，申請者應注意：

•寫別人不可能寫的東西；

•就個人重要的方面深入下去，不要泛泛而談；

•力求寫好頭一、二段，特別是頭幾句；

•用獨特的思維方法來評價個人經歷。

二、講述有益經歷

申請者在陳述自己的人生經歷時,應側重于講述那些對自己的人生觀和事業有較大影響的事件，分析應該從中總結的經驗或吸取的教訓。不要什么都談，也不要抱怨自己的不幸境遇，更不要提那些易引起爭議的敏感話題，如政治觀點、宗教信仰等。但這并不是說，申請者不應該講述自己的不足之處或痛苦的經歷，只是在講述這些挫折或失敗時，不要流露出乞求或憤恨的心情，因為美國人一向欣賞那種在逆境中長大、不被困難嚇住的人，比如美國總統林肯就是大家都推崇備至的楷模。申請者在講述自己的經歷時一定要采取正面的、積極的態度，表現自己不畏艱險、不怕困難、努力奮斗的拼搏梢神，讓他人真切地感受你內在的魅力。寫這部分時可以加入以下幾個內容：

•對自己的成長有重大影響的事件；

•自己所參加過的重大活動；

•自己的學習和工作經歷；

•學習和工作期間所獲得的各種獎勵。

三、陳述自己的成就

不少學校除了要求申請者的TOEFL、GRE或GMAT成績以外，還很看重申請者的大學成績和以往的科研、學術成果及工作經驗等。往往有這種情況:一個人的TOEFL、GRH或GMAT考得很好 但科研成果卻很一般，他得到獎學金的可能性比不上那些考試成績較差但發表論文較多的人。

因此，申請者一定要詳細陳述一下自己的科研學術成果，說明這些論文在某一領域所做出的貢獻。不要因為這些已在簡歷中提到過了就不再提及，但這里的表述應該比簡歷中的陳述站得更高、看得更遠。比如說目前你在進行一項課題的研究，該研究不一定與你想要攻讀的專業有關，但是這也是你的成就，你也可以寫進去。如果你有一定的研究經驗，應說明你在該項研究中充當的角色、發揮的作用以及主要成果。最重要的是要具體闡述在研究過程中推出的解決方法和運算法則。

四、證明自己的能力

申請者除了陳述自己的科研成就以外還應證明自己的綜合能力。這也分幾個方面：

1、學習能力。申請者應說明自己成績高、排名好、獲過獎等。 但目前申請者大多具備

這些條件，所以不要在這方面花太多的筆墨。

2、研究能力。研究經歷多肯定是一個優勢，但最好先說明自己為什么參加這個研究,從而恰當地引出自己對這個方向的興趣。

3、科研潛力。申請者應說明自己在科研方面還有多大的潛力。 對本科生來講，雖然研究經歷少，但可塑性強，只要你能有理有據地論述，也能吸引人的。

4、專業和研究方向的興趣。這是外國大學極其看重的一點，因此要能夠生動地表達出自己對科學的熱愛。你要闡述為什么要出國讀書，為什么要讀Ph.D.，為什么選擇這個學校這個系，還有你將來的職業目標等。應該結合自己的經歷和對專業的興趣來談為什么這個項目對自己特別有吸引力。

5、證明自己是最合適的人選。申請者應證明自己是所申請的院系最需要的學生，將來這個系要對某方面重點研究，或某些教授正要開展某方面研究, 而你正好在這方面有一定的了解和經驗。

五、分析個人的品德與個性

申請者在“個人陳述”中也應提到自己的品德與個性，分析一下 自己是否誠實可靠、刻苦努力，具有什么樣的生活、學習、工作態度， 有什么樣的能力，能否適應國外大學艱苦的學習生活等。

歐美國家很看重一個人的誠實，這是做人的根本。因此你應說明自己是誠實的、可靠的。同時也要說明自己的性格是樂觀的，能夠正面、積極地看待一切問題，視問題為一種挑戰。申請者應指出在國外求學中己應保持良好的心態，特別是發現現實和自己的想法有差距時，應正確對待學習、生活中的壓力。

六、說明求學動機

所有的學校都希望學生有著良好的學d動機，能夠認真對待自 d的學習與工作。W此，申濟者應在個人陳述中說明求學的動機與 H的，說明自己的讀書計劃，不要把求學與追求金錢、物質利益或學校排名直接聯系在一起。

申請者應說明自己學成后的打算、是否回國報效祖國。一個人連自己的父母、國家都不愛，他不可能真正做出對全人類有益的事情的。歐美國家很看重一個人的品行，申請者應明白這一點。

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這種情況只能你自己去寫，別人替不了。給你些參考材料看一下吧，一個是寫給簽證官的，一個是推薦信，特別是推薦信，把你想要的內容基本都寫出來了，很有參考價值：

一、學習計劃

Dear isa Officer,

My name is Deng Peng. I graduated from No. 1 Middle School of Changsha, Hunan Province in July 2002.

I had two alternatives to choose before high school graduation last: either to take part in the national collegiate examination in order to receive college education in China, or to select a school of a developed country for further schooling. My family had very careful discussion on selection of these two alternatives. At the end of thorough considerations, the whole family decided that I should go abroad for advanced education.

Owning a number of large and medium scale coal mines, my father is a famous private entrePneur in Changsha. As his company keeps on growing and the business becomes more sophisticated, my father is now badly in need of good specialists of business management to help him manage and operate the business. My father decided to let me go abroad for advanced schooling so that I would be able to assist him in the family business using the advanced management knowledge I would learn abroad.

Besides, I have consulted my high school teachers, who not only support my decision but also further suggest me to choose a good Canadian school.

I know it is more expensive to have such advanced education in abroad than in China. Financing is not a problem to my family. My parents have enough financial resources to pay for all the expenses necessary for the four-year educational program in Canada including the round tickets.

After careful studies of the alternative schools, I finally come to identify Sprott-Shaw Community College at Vancouver. I know that this college, founded in 1903, will have its century celebration in this June. Currently there are 2376 well-trained faculties and about 4000 students. It has altogether 20 branches all over BC Province. Another thing about this college that is interesting to me is that there are very few Chinese students, no more than 2 in each class on average.

I have applied for the program on business management. To complete this program, I have the following plan: before starting the specialty program, I will complete the ESL courses. After admission I will have an English language test, and will be arranged to the proper class according to my English level. I will also have language test in every month in order to see the progress of the language proficiency. When I have reached the intermediate level, I will be able to start the specialty courses. Then I plan to choose the following subjects: business study and management, business and finance, marketing theories and marketing strategies, human resource management, etc. After spending two years at Sprott-Shaw Community College, I will select a proper university for advanced bachelor courses. For instance, I may select BCIT or AU of Canada.

Upon completion of the program in Canada, I will come back to China to help my father with the family business. While working in my father's company, I will start from the lowest level have good practice and use all that I will have learnt at Canada.

I am very confident in the future, although I understand that schooling abroad may be very difficult. It will require greater efforts to accomplish the program in abroad than in China. But I am Ppared for that. In this January I participated in the TV college program for training in computer application, as I know that it is almost impossible to study the program without computer knowledge. I am now trying to gain more knowledge and experience on computer application, besides, I spend all my spare time on English study.

Canada is a peaceful and lovely country. Studying at Sprott-Shaw Community College will be very important to me, for it means another significant start of my life. Please trust me that after completing the program in Canada, I will be able to operate and manage the business of Hunan Xiangyuan Fuels & Investment Co., Ltd. much better than my father.

Yours faithfully,

Applicant: Deng Peng

二、老師的推薦信

Sir or Madam:

It is a pleasure for me to provide an eva luation in support of the application of Mr. Cai Yubiao, whom I have known for six years and taught English for three years in middle school. Later I acted as counselor of his class and he became my friend. I have full understanding of him in many aspects and I can say responsibly that he is a rare excellent student our school has produced.

Mr. Cai imPssed first of all with his distinguished scholastic performance and his all-round development. He is almost a hero-like character on the campus. He is widely recognized, for his rank of always being one of the top five in various tests and exams, for his well-balanced development in all fields, for his broad horizon which is rarely found in other students. As a result, he had been conferred with the title of "Student of Excellence" for three consecutive years, the highest honor in most Chinese high schools. His mastery of computer science, which is far above school requirement and even higher than some of the college students, is most talked about and admired by both the school faculty and students. What especially surprised me is that his tutor in the computer contest told me that he obtained such achievement solely through his painstaking self-education. It is already beyond his teachers to offer him any advanced knowledge.

It is undeniable that Mr. Cai is very talented. But he achieved succeeded not simply out of his talents but more out of his diligence. When he first entered the 7th grade, he was just an average student. Now, he is especially admired for his piles of achievements in various highest-level contests and competitions. The prizes such as 1st place winner in National Olympics for Informatics, 2nd place winner in National Olympics for Mathematics, 3rd place winner in Provincial Olympics for Chemistry are only a few of the items. The reason for such a drastic improvement is that he has mastered effective learning methods which enhanced his scholastic aptitudes. Comment in common about him is that he is a person with a tightly packed schedule that is scientifically and reasonably made. "Less time, better work" or "Play while play, work while work" is what many of his peers describe of him jealously. He is so imPssive for his well-planned and efficient studies. A colleague of mine once told me that a boy living in the opposite building would read English aloud for two hours every evening and play half an hour badminton and then go to bed. She said she very much apPciate the persistence of such a student. This student is Mr. Cai and my colleague's description has convincingly explained why Mr. Cai excels his classmates in English.

Being enthusiastic about his work, earnest in learning, he is also full of passion and initiative. What has always been talked about among the school faculty is about the days when Chai Yibiao squeezed out time to search through the web for teaching materials and worked deep into the nights to integrate them into multimedia animations and other forms of teaching aids and this product is now well-kept as a token of the valuable friendship between teacher and student, also the achievement made by students now being repeatedly used in class. For the past 6 years, together with his classmates, Mr. Cai often paid visits to the community welfare center to extend greetings and best wishes to the old people. He is also ever ready to show his love and care to each classmate.

As a matter of fact, he has been tutoring one of them in a one-to-one manner for a non-stop three years, for as much as 5 hours a week, which has now been an anecdote in the school.

Rather than score-oriented, he does equally well in after-school activities. The tutor of his extracurricular astronomy project recalled when Mr. Cai first joined the project as a 4th grader in primary school, he looked very small. When asked "Will you feel afraid to make observations deep into night in the wilderness?" he answered with courage: "Not in the least." By now, he has made 8-year efforts to do astronomical observations, even during the final year of his senior middle school when the coursework is so heavy. In other related aspects, Mr. Cai led his class's volleyball team to win the championship in the all-school man's volleyball league match and he himself won several first prizes in the long- and medium-distance running events at the school's sports meet. He rePsented our school at the two major English speech tests, one provincial-level and the other municipal-level, in which he won the 4th prize and first prize respectively.

In a word, he is a remarkable person. Not only his intelligence, but his maturity and willingness to help other people are really unusual, especially among high school seniors. Of course, he is by no means perfect. As a student of less than 20 years old, he has great potential to be tapped.

Therefore, he needs to be put into a more challenging environment to enrich and improve himself. An outstanding student needs an excellent academic environment and I believe that your esteemed university will surely provide the best study conditions.

At the same time，I strongly believe he will make a great learner, scholar and hopefully, a great man. I sincerely wish that his application could be most seriously and favorably considered.