申请乔治华盛顿大学商科奖学金介绍

　　很多同学听说美国商学院奖学金很少或者没有,就放弃了对于商科奖学金的争取。其实如果学校可以提供奖学金,大家一定要积极主动的争取。下面来看看具体的例子。

　　要奖——奖学金申请 sample letter 今年过年的时候才申完george washington u。之前在网站有看到我们专业(旅游管理)申请的ddl是4月,奖学金申请的ddl是1月15日。

　　1月前给我在美国的中介打了个电话,请教关于怎么申请奖学金的问题。以下为中介回复的大意：

　　business schools usually don’t offer the scholarship, especially for international applicants•••

　　i highly recommend you to apply scholarship when you arrive us or at your 2nd year•••

　　for the ddl of 15th jan, let it be let it be•••just focus on your application this time•••

　　好吧。听了中介的话我放弃了,有点失望但是相信她了。

　　gw的效率很高,2月初就发了admission。12月、1月就有拿到录取的童鞋,而且两个人还有一万刀五千刀的奖。觉得自己的背景并不比人家差,心里不平衡,于是试探性地发了邮件给小蜜,请教了一些别的问题,最后问现在还有奖available for me to apply么? 可能是我没说清楚,gw的小蜜只在最后简单回复summer semester是没有奖可以申的。于是我又觉得蛮打击,放弃了。和朋友抱怨过几次命运不济,申请晚了,导致手头无奖blahblah。

　　然后就是3月底了,拿到gw admission的筒子越来越多,大家纷纷开始决定选校了。跟我一起申请的乌比跟我说,几天前她发了邮件跟gw要到奖了,你为什么不试试呢?我瞬时诧异!!!原来。。。原来还可以试的啊?!!!!!!

　　于是写了一封很有诚意的要奖信给小蜜。三天后,如愿收到了1万刀的系奖学金。

　　至此,有几点心得想要分享给大家：

　　可能很多diy的筒子跟我一样不懂奖学金怎么申。据我这段时间的了解,大致有以下几种方式：

　　首先,商学院有没有奖学金?有!

　　只是给不给,给多少,视专业和学校而定。具体的情况需要直接浏览学校网站,或者向直系学长咨询。比如purdue几年来作为big ten一员,总是以悲惨的缺钱形象示人,狂收中国学生也无奖提供,比如utd给了不少半奖。自己的事情永远要自己负责,这个世界谁能靠得住呢?轻易听信中介和无良媒体的三手信息,你就好好被蒙在鼓里混沌吧;

　　第二,怎么给的问题。

　　一般非全奖的学校都是采用充抵学费的形式,不退。我们专业的很多学校都是获得了admission之后可以进一步和学校申请奖学金的,比如uh,gwu,cornell。有的学校是以申请ra, ta的方式算是变相提供勤工俭学的机会,如unlv,psu。但是对于什么时候申请,很多学校的网站写得不清不楚,这时候就发邮件咨询小蜜吧。从我申请gw奖学金这个案例来看,小蜜的信息明显和网站公示的信息不对称,大家一定要多问,严防这种情况出现而错失良机!!!nyu在网站明确写明国际生一般不给奖,但是很多专业或多或少的还给优秀的applicants意思了一下;

　　第三,如果真的在出国前弄不到任何名目的奖金,出去再看也是个办法。

　　勤工俭学啊,好的学校有各种校友赞助,奖学金的名目也更为繁多些,好的gpa也会有更多的机会。不过 毕竟我没有在美国读书的经历,还是保守建议大家多跟直系学长提前探好学校情况。

　　我觉得大家尤其是在选校的最后阶段,不打算去某所学校就不要玩玩看跟人家要奖让小蜜白忙活。这件事于情于理还是说不过去的,也不太厚道。既然奖到了,就慎重的考虑。哪怕真的只能决定不去,记得给小蜜发一封感谢信。

　　奖学金这种东西,真的是不要白不要。几千刀看着不多,折成rmb也够父母过几天好日子。拿gw的奖学金来说,我放弃了两次机会,1月是中介告诉我不行;2月是我误以为小蜜告诉我不行;加上心里对这件事情犹豫而自卑,主观yy申请晚了还要奖的人挺傻逼的,于是当时也没有刨根问底据理力争下去。直到战友乌比提醒我,为什么不试试?对啊,我们在担心什么呢。不过就是写封邮件多问问校友而已,大不了失败了也收获了经验。前行的路上,不要怀疑自己,主观臆造事物的消极姿态。be aggressive, and just go for it!

　　gw的奖没有表格,前面说过我写了很长的信给系里。大概的逻辑思路我写给大家,希望能在日后筒子们写的时候作为参考：

　　argument 1: (开门见山套近乎)我非常喜欢某校,我不得不去某校某专业的原因。(这段最好写大写宽泛一点,多谈谈自己的职业规划,脚踏实地的人生理想,不要只拘泥于研究方向之类的东西,太过于平庸。写写你ps里没来得及表达的重要内容!)

　　argument 2：(转折)同时我也遇到了很多困难,我家庭背景一般,不够经济实力进入某校。(简单讲就是哭穷,写得越朴实越好)

　　argument 3：(转折递进)同时我收到了几个大学的录取通知书,如xxxxx, 费用成为了我选校的重要因素。( 给学校施加压力,让他们有人才流失的危机感。不过最好别写学校的死对头,也别写太差的让人家bs你一顿。写几个水平声誉差不多的)

　　argument 4： (升华)写自己的优势,多么competitive!!!(这段最重要,不过还是写ps里没有或点到为止的内容,进一步加深印象。

　　小tips就是语气要温润感恩,词句多润色吧。即使没拿到奖,他们有空阅读你的信件,给别人留个好印象。没准这次的失败造就了下次顺风顺水的可能。

　　附上我的信件原文。

　　title：could you offer me the help?：)(姐的特长就是卖萌,小表情之类的,可是姐每次求人家必备的。尤其麻烦帅哥哥帮忙的时候,果断良药啊!!!!!)

　　dear mta program office,

　　i am constance who has already been admitted by your mta program for the 2012 fall semester. i hope to inquire you that could you offer me any fellowship or scholarship? since have been worked busily for my company, i just got the time to catch my breath and exchange my thoughts with you.

　　firstly, gw is my dream school and i really appreciate the opportunity you offer me to forward my tourism study. when the first time i saw the mta program especially the tourism sustainable management concentration, i cannot wait to join you.

　　as an environmentalist, i care about the environment issues and hope to bring sustainable development strategies to my real life. yulin is my hometown which located in the northwest of china. by taking advantage of its rich natural gas and coal resources, it has achieved leaps and bounds economically. however, no one cares about how the rapid economic development leaves a tremendous negative impact. because of the over-exploitation, the land has been severely subsided and sometimes hundred kilometers of land shocked like an earthquake happened. the most painful to me is, the hongjian lake which is the largest inland lake in the mu us desert, since 1991, the lake area decreased due to less groundwater recharge resulting from lowering of the water table caused by agricultural activities and less surface water recharge due to dam construction in the upstream rivers. i really want to take the responsibility to protect my hometown.

　　but i fell i am all alone. when i call up my buddies to go back and set up our own business to make contribution to our hometown, they always say that stay in big city can gain good salaries and they don’t feel professional to deal with the issues. i know there must be someone cares about the environment in developing countries like me. besides getting intellectual growth through mta program, i believe that i can access your active social networks and find co-works who not just like making money on the investment or real estate area, who want to realize the shared drams together. with the strong reputation and resources of gw, i think we can much promote the plan and call more of the pioneers who bring a sustainable tourism development track to the modern china.

　　secondly, the tuition fees of gw are heavy-laden for me. i was born in a scholarly family which my father is a journalist and my mother is a teacher of an elementary school. they are not rich but both hard-working, thrifty and enjoy the life. they gave me their lifes saving and hope i could study at a famous university of us. since i told them i was admitted by gw, my mother has been so heisted to buy a new skirt. meanwhile, as i also got the admissions of unlv and nyu, the costs will be an important factor for me to choose a university. but with my favorite concentration and location, gw is the school i want to go most. even the tuition of gw is too high for me, i really hope you could offer me some help to make me enroll my dream school.

　　finally, i am confident that i can be a worthy student of you. i am the song qinling scholarship (the famous scholarship which offers only a few well-rounded chinese students) owner during middle school; i won the national scholarship of china (the highest scholarship in china that rewarding the student with outstanding academic performance) to pay my undergraduate tuition; i carried out more than three tourism research projects so that got the innovation scholarship of xxx university several times•••furthermore, i have gained more hospitality work experience than other current years graduates. interning and traveling in the asian-pacific regions makes me deeply informed about the status and the facing problems of asian hospitality industry, and i will bring all my valuable experiences and opinions to your program.

　　all in all, to be a graduate student of yours is my sincere hope. if you could offer me the fellowship or scholarship more than $15,000, i think i can definitely choose my dream school gw, and what’s more, leave my parents a better life. your kindly consider will be really really appreciated.

　　thank you & wish you are all best!

　　regards,

　　constance

　　附上小蜜第三天给我回复的电邮：

　　dear ms. constance,

　　we appreciate receiving a letter from you sharing your thoughts explaining to us the desire to complete your graduate studies in the gwu. having reviewed your request; i am pleased to announce the faculty committee has recommended to offer you the deans scholarship for $10,000 tuition award. note the is the maximum amount we can offer from the deans office and it is non-renewable award..

　　upon hearing back from you; the official scholarship letter will be forwarded to you. considering gw master of tourism administration program is a world renowned degree; we really hope you will not turn down this offer.

　　all the best,

　　l c