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Overseas Frog

真经留学蛙的宗旨：

服务好GRE培训学员, 不盲目扩张和推广, 口碑即一切。

赠人offer，蛙留余香。

录取院校及专业：

卡耐基梅隆大学 Computer Science 

F同学 本科：Purdue University  GPA3.6 GRE328

学员自述：我不擅长考试，申请美本的时候就因为SAT过低错过心仪的大学，所以刚一上大学就确定研究生要弥补这段缺憾。大学前两年我什么都没想，就是想着尽量把GPA搞上去，还好基本维持了3.5-3.7的水准。

大三的时候我决定开始规划申研方向。这个时候我想起了我的托福老师--Peter。他此时已经在美国留学，在宾大读书同时也做了一个自己的留学工作室。因为之前学托福就认识了还经常一起打球感觉Peter还蛮靠谱的就找他聊了一下我的想法。我特别感激这次聊天，因为他给我规划了接下来申研的每个步骤和申请时间线，让我清晰的看到了还有很多事情需要做，比如弥补实习的空缺。大概一个月后我看到身边朋友都在找留学中介服务，我想我也需要考虑一下这个事情了。就又找Peter聊了一次，然后很快就签约了真经留学蛙。

Peter给我安排了一个哈佛大学的人工智能博士后做我的导师，导师也给我推荐了他在领域内的一些资源，比如他带我去哈佛做了一个半月的实验室项目，收获颇丰，最后也拿到了一封教授的推荐信，这对我的申请帮助还蛮大的。

然后就又来到了我的噩梦，GRE考试。我真的不擅长考试，所以GRE在自学了一个半月后首考315分我都傻了，悲催的目送其他小伙伴330+扬长而去。Peter给我了极大的鼓励和帮助。因为他自己就是托福GRE培训老师出身，多年工作经验让他很了解我这种学生需要怎么突破。

他先是给我制定备考计划，安排我报名了真经GRE的课程，规定了要完成的工作量。然后摆在我面前的是真经GRE整理的各种做题技巧和真题机经，就刷完这些题，刷透了再不会考试也考330。我半信半疑的领了题去做，但是刚做几道题就发现自己不想做了。班主任每天都守着我打卡，让我必须完成。同时老师还会带着我分析错题，我的备考习惯应该属于很不好那种，题目摆在面前就做，做完对一下答案又去做别的题目了，不喜欢动脑子。

上课时，老师总是会带着我分析每一篇文章每一个句子的内在逻辑，取同取反，一边梳理出题陷阱一边帮助建立逻辑思维，which is GRE考试的核心。这样苦熬了一个月，终于二战我考了328. 虽然不算最顶尖，但我已经很满意了，这基本代表了我的标化考试最高水准了。

感谢真经留学蛙对我的帮助，希望更多的学弟学妹也能顺利拿到自己的梦校录取。

录取院校及专业：哥大ERM

Northeastern University GPA 3.46 GRE 323

Peter老师自述：“老师您好，我是Steven，想跟您学GRE和申请研究生，现在我GRE只有314分，申请中介给我的服务也不是很满意，想和你聊一聊。B老师推荐我来找您。”

2019.12.8，我的一个XDF同事兼好友给我打电话，说他有个学生想咨询留学申请的事，据说是已经大四了，找了一个中介，但是觉得不满意，想和我聊一下。几分钟后这个学生加了我微信，他叫Steven。发完上面那段话后，我们通了个电话，我了解到原来他在美国东北大学读书，已经大四了，读金融和经济专业。他的GPA不算很突出，3.5不到，然后GRE还没有考出理想分数，只有314。找我之前他已经找了一个国内某留学中介X做申请服务，然后自己同步备考GRE。找我是因为X中介给他的学校定位太低（最高WUSTL，还有很多很靠后的学校）并且做事严重拖沓，都12月了各项工作都还没有什么实质性操作进展，他有点着急。

我说别着急我们来聊一下，聊的过程我发现他的申研潜力其实很大，GPA将近3.5不算很突出但是申请名校也勉强够用了，GRE虽然分数很低但是完全还有时间可以刷分，我们可以走晚一点的申请轮次，再加上他自己有着不错的实习经历，申请的前景远不止X中介所描述的那样。其实这种压低学生预期的现象在圈内很常见，很多机构都会这样干，因为大多数学生毕竟没有那么了解录取情况，那么保险起见，申请一个差不多的学校就行了，这样对于中介来说省事且保险，学生最后也还是会满意。但这种操作是我很不齿的，说这是抹杀学生前途也不过分！！学生付费买服务就是为了省事同时去到更好的学校，买的是更好的可能性不是买保底院校的。但这个行业的确充斥了很多不讲基本行业良心的害群之马。

我评估了他的情况，和他确认了接下来我们要争取把GRE刷到320+ 然后申请学校定了6个。因为X中介不给他退费，他决定同时签约我这边，两家同时做。我这边六所学校是耶鲁GBS，哥大ERM，Duke MMS, 西北Project Management, JHU Finance, Cornell Management.  Steven和我聊完开心了很多，说“哥我真的还可以去这些项目吗，我感觉前途都光明了哈哈!!” 我说你安心准备GRE，剩下的交给我们，这里面录取一半问题不大。然后我安排申请和文书老师紧急召开申请讨论会并迅速准备他的各项材料，同时安排GRE培训师一对一带他的GRE学习。后来GRE他又考了两次，在临近ddl前终于考出323的分数。

最后选校名单六所中了三所。依次是哥大ERM，西北Project Management，JHU Finance. Steven最后选择了哥大ERM。而X中介最高只申请到了一个Tufts的Econ.

Steven是个东北小伙，得知录取的时候他激动的给我打电话，“哥，太感谢您了，您是我的恩人，我爸妈也特别开心，总算是为他们争光了。” Steven今年暑假还特意从东北飞来深圳看我，提了两瓶五粮液，我们相约在谭鸭血火锅，一边吃肉一边喝酒...

Take a look at the students walking across the campus. Some are heading to a class, and others are buying coffee---this is what you may see.  As a future marketing analyst, what I see is valuable demographic and behavioral information. I see prospective customers that businesses can target. The process of utilizing data to make a smart marketing decision is what inspires me to become a marketing analyst and brings me to Medill.

My experience with marketing begins with the first class I took in the School of Journalism. During Strategic Communication 345, we worked in groups to develop a strategic plan for Chick FiL-A. As a research director, I led the team to conduct market research and consumer analysis. Throughout the three months of group work, we set our target audience, came up with a TV commercial and social media campaign, and prepared press kits. From that experience, I learned that Integrated Marketing Communication is like the process of pursuing a romantic partner. We have first to conduct market research which is similar to finding our match. The deal target can't be too hard to reach but should be a specific person that we like and is likely to be attracted to us. Then, after setting the goal, it is time to get to know everything about this person and making ourselves stand out. Throughout this process, we need to convey a consistent message showing our unique selling points. We need to take advantage of various sources of help, and we have to be aware of what our competitors are doing and prepare for unexpected circumstances that might occur.

Though this might not be a perfect metaphor, it is how I understand what contributes to a collaborative process of getting the right product to the right person and maintaining a good relationship. I honed my skills in marketing and communication through internships and school organizations.

During my year working as an account executive for Bucky PR, I independently led a five-person group to come up with a social media strategy for TECH UW Madison. I found it challenging at first to coordinate with five people and to effectively transfer the client’s message to teammates. To tackle these problems, I led regular team meetings and had teammates choose their specialty areas from video production, social media account management, and client relations. Also, I encouraged teammates to come to client meetings so that they could be more actively involved and directly get to know the clients' thoughts.

Through building a website for TECH and producing multimedia content via social media platforms I developed interests in digital marketing. I wanted to earn more about how to effectively use these digital tools to drive marketing decisions and plans. To gain this knowledge, I worked as a digital marketing intern at Mid-west Family Marketing. 

One day, as I was building a website for clients using HTML, I had the opportunity to meet with marketers from Google Analytics. I was excited because I have always been fascinated by how companies are using big data to analyze their consumers and personalize Internet content. After that meeting, I changed my career goal and decided to become a market research specialist using data analytic tools to help a company making decisions.

Each of my experiences in digital marketing or public relations has helped me to gain a deeper understanding of marketing and gradually to this career goal. This career decision brought me to IMC at Northwestern. I heard the name Northwestern from one of my professors, Stacy Foster, who also graduated from Medill.  I'm interested in the program because it offers a great combination of theory and application, which is the most effective way of learning for me. 

More importantly, the Consumer Insights and Analytics track aligns well with my interest and provides me with a chance to combine my experience in public relations with knowledge in computer science. My logical thinking and ability in data analysis will prepare me for courses such as quantitative and qualitative analysis and statistical modeling. Besides the course design, I’m very interested in the research projects of Professor Weinberger. I think gaining consumer data from data analytics tools is not enough; instead consumer decisions are a synergetic result of various social and cultural factors. 

My long-term career is to become a mature market and consumer research director who combines hard data with consumer psychology. With Medill, I believe I’m making the right step towards my goal.  

On a cold morning of December last year, I woke up in the narrow bed of a farm near the suburb of London. The sense of happiness came to me at such a moment not only because of the beautiful scenery outside the window but more importantly, the fulfillment brought by yesterday's food distribution activity in London, in which I assisted monks to give away food to people in need. The farm belongs to a temple, where I witnessed a harmonious coexistence of self-sufficiency and an "open economy". Money earned from tourist visits and wedding hosting is mainly used for weekly food distribution and irregular visits to refugee camps.

As an economics student. for the very first time, I am deeply proud of the modern economy allowing the easy exchange of service and goods into currency and here, on this small farm, the money goes to where people most need it. For a long period, the modern economy is wearing a hat labeled “selfish”. This seems to be verified by the most important assumption underlying the theory of economics that participants are rationale, or in other words, they intend to maximize their benefits. However, in realistic life, whether the modern economy goes good or bad, as we see in the example of the farm, truly depends on people's subjective will.

While this short volunteer experience in the farm impressed me with the charming part of the modern economy, I developed a better understanding of the role financial organization plays during my summer internship in the Industrial Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in China. To look for some inspiration for my essay topic How the Extent of Competition Affects the Risk-taking of Banks in China, I joined the faculty of Personal Loans, which could be one of the main sources of risk in the daily operation of this bank. My daily duty was to assess the credit reports of customers and prepare necessary documents for further processing of the loan applications.

I found that while it's true that full interest rate liberalization has almost realized in China the competition of banks by manipulating the loan interest rate to attract more customers, as once expected, does not appear. The interest rate for personal loans does not vary much among large commercial banks. I discussed with my senior about this problem and she explained to me that seeking long-term cooperation with real estate companies to earn a stable volume of customers applying for mortgages is the main way to compete with other banks in the field of personal loans. Besides, I took the opportunity to see how a loan application is processed within the bank and how the bank reduces the risk of taking bad loans by requiring different positions to evaluate those applications. In these two months, I got the opportunity to apply my theoretical knowledge to real issues and my horizon got greatly expanded by immersing myself in such a real-world business environment.

However, only with the solid knowledge grounding built during the past three years of academic experience can I get so much from my internship and volunteer experiences. It's a great fortune for me to study in two top universities with 207 different education ideas and modes. I spent the first two college years at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, majoring in finance and minoring in economics, where I formed a basic understanding of economics. The world of economics, from then, is gradually opening its door to me and I am fascinated by it. By taking a wide range of courses, I learned to appreciate economics from a theoretical perspective in microeconomics and macroeconomics and explain economic phenomena from a numerical perspective in econometrics. The financial and mathematical models I encountered during the study are challenging but fascinating. Besides, the school could not provide more chances for us to explore our interesting topics. 

In the first semester of my second year, as a group leader, I worked with my classmates to study the efficiency of Chinese business incubators based on the special case of Innovation Works. To better indicate the status quo of business incubators in China in a numerical way, I collected data or 432 domestic incubators and apply the DEA model to the data to conduct a statistical analysis. Despite some imperfections in our final work, we got recognized by professors in the School Undergraduate Seminar and won third prize. 

Later in 2015, I started my next two years at the University of Birmingham ready to take new challenges. What differs from my previous experience is that professors here tend to go deeper to show students the essence of some seemingly simple concepts and have a higher requirement towards our initiatives in the earning process, which inspired me to put more effort into the study. There are still some courses related to econometrics, which put more emphasis on the detection and correction of possible bias when a model is applied and the operation of econometric software like STATA and Eviews.

All these greatly complete my knowledge basis of econometrics. The most impressive course this year is the Regulatory Framework of Banking, not closely relevant to economics, from my perspective, but vital for understanding the behavior of banks.

In my daily life, I manage to achieve a balance between study and social activities. As the aging population arises to be a concern in many countries, including China, I actively take part in some volunteer activities aimed at caring for the elderly. We once found ten old couples who had no chances to take wedding pictures at their youth due to the war and were going to celebrate their golden wedding. They were invited to take wedding photos and their stories were recorded with cameras, then made into a short film to play in our school. I also had weekly visits to a couple who lost their only child twenty years ago and tried to comfort them. Apart from that, I worked in the sales department of a retail store at school, which is operated by students and has reached a monthly revenue of 0.1 million RMB. Staying in the store for one semester as an intern enhanced my skills in teamwork and negotiation. 

During my undergraduate study, the program I attended put its emphasis on the theory of economics. However, I found myself truly fascinated by the course Corporate Finance Management, which is the only course closely related to finance during my study. I am interested in the CAMP model and the theory of market efficiency, and I enjoy comparing the pros and cons of different capital structures and dividend policies. My enthusiasm drove me to put lots of effort into it, and I did pretty well in this module. 

However, I understand that the knowledge about the financial market covered in this course is only the iceberg and I am eager to deepen my understanding of this topic. Besides, on a rare occasion, one of my professors talked to me about her recent study, which raised my great interest in the bilateral market where many parties actively interact with each other and hence complex relationship forms. I feel that only by taking more advanced courses in microeconomics could I better comprehend the sophisticated relationship within the market and find explanations for it. The tools provided in econometrics and the ability to conduct independent research are also what I intend to acquire to better evaluate my ideas.

The Finance and Economics program exactly offers what I desire in my academic advancement. During my study in the UK, I have seen the advanced nature of education here and how it suits me for further education. The University of Cambridge is such a prestigious school that has given birth to so many academic giants whom I fully look up to. Hopefully, I could get the chance to stand on the shoulders of these giants and make my contribution to this great school.

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