To study abroad, you need to understand what background enhancement is

Background improvement refers to the expansion of soft backgrounds, such as internships, scientific research, activities, etc., to apply for American universities, not only need to have excellent grades, but also have a strong soft background, in order to stand out among many applicants.

What activities can be counted as background enhancement for studying abroad?

1. Volunteers.

For example, animal protection, volunteer teaching, community service, etc.

Applicants who participate in volunteer activities will receive real and rich experience in activities and official certificates, and those who perform well will have the opportunity to receive a recommendation letter from a volunteer organization. These activities will be helpful for applicants who wish to apply to study abroad in the liberal arts and social sciences.

2. Scientific research.

For example, SSCI**, CPCI**, national patents, etc.

Having a good scientific research experience is indeed a great addition to applicants. Foreign universities, especially top universities, are highly interested in scientific research talents, and publishing is one of the most effective ways for professors and admissions officers to know about you. Therefore, for applicants who plan to study abroad, publishing an international ** will significantly increase your success rate of applying for a master's degree or doctorate in a prestigious university, and greatly increase your probability of winning a scholarship.

3. Competition.

For example, Challenge Cup, AMC Mathematics Competition, HIMCM, IGEM Competition, etc.

Competitions can improve the applicant's personal ability in a specific field and reflect the applicant's scientific research level. However, the background promotion activities of the competition have higher requirements for the applicant's own professional knowledge and take a long time, and the final award is generally a national award or a provincial special prize, which is more conducive to the applicant's background improvement.

4. Summer school.

For example, Stanford Summer School, Columbia Summer School, Berkeley Summer School, etc.

Summer school is a short-term program for college and high school students in Europe and the United States during the summer vacation. Participating in the summer school can enable applicants to enter the world's first-class universities in advance, and at the same time, they will have the opportunity to show their learning ability and related talents to the school of their choice, and obtain credits recognized by European and American universities, and even obtain letters of recommendation, which will improve the approval rate of future applications.

5. Enterprise internship.

Such as Microsoft, Google, investment banking, the Big Four and other personnel internships.

Generally speaking, the more functional the internship position in a large company, the better the applicant's background will be improved, and the more places there can be to write essays. If you are really struggling to find the right internship program and don't know how to apply, you can also seek help from a professional background enhancement agency.

The so-called background improvement is to comprehensively enhance the application advantages of students in the application for studying abroad. For example, participate in some practical activities and internship activities, the purpose is to reflect your personal talents and strengths such as leadership and execution in the application, so that you can stand out from many applicants. Instead of participating in the kind of project that costs a bunch of people to go to, write an assembly line essay with similar content.

For example, when I was doing background improvement, Huide's teachers kept communicating with me, starting from my work as the head of the organization department in the student union, discovering my organizational ability, leadership ability and other shining points, and then guiding me to write my own unique essay.

You can ask a local teacher to help you write a letter of introduction, and then participate in a more weighty competition to win prizes, and you can get a boost in your study abroad background.

How to study abroad as a background and improve, but write all your resumes.

Studying abroad for background enhancement is a very difficult method, and it is not easy.

If I want to study abroad, I will try my best to learn about foreign cultures, and then I will try to improve my various abilities, and I will carry them forward when I return home.

Research, learn more talents, have talents, and participate in more large-scale activities.

Take more certificates, dabble in more courses.

You can go to your own major-related company for an internship, and then you can improve yourself after returning to your home country.

It is said that studying abroad is more difficult and may cost a lot if you want to do a background.

I feel that studying abroad should first improve your professional knowledge, skills, and foreign language skills.

Most of the people who study abroad are people with a lot of backgrounds, and they can be promoted casually.

Different schools and majors require different grades.

You can check according to the study abroad goals, see what background (how many points in language scores, what is the school background, what major, GPA, etc.) of your target universities and majors have applied, and then compare your own situation and formulate general goals and directions.

The two core issues of background improvement are: 1. Evaluate the applicant's potential for improvement and the ability to be improved from the perspective of the applicant's personality, existing abilities and conditions. 2. The application for studying abroad focuses on matching degree and relative advantages.

True study abroad experts believe that background enhancement should focus on the student's application goals for targeted planning and implementation, not only limited to academic and scientific research ability, but also include cross-cultural experience and ability, leadership, social responsibility, and even personality and emotional aspects.

Find an education agent who has a way to enhance the student's educational practice.

If your study abroad agent recommends seven or eight background activities to you, each lasting about two weeks, I advise you not to do such activities, because doing it is equivalent to doing it in vain, there is no gold content of activities, you do it is also a waste of your time, the final result is still rejected, the essence of background improvement is not that the more activities the better, but to see how "deep" you do, like Harvard University and many other famous American school admissions officers, the explanation of "in-depth extracurricular activities" is " Focus on and deepen one or two activities or hobbies, rather than participating in many general activities at the same time". When I applied for Huide to study abroad, the teacher also told me this in the later stage, suggesting that I focus on one or two activities to do, instead of doing seven or eight but each time is not very long, which is meaningless and a waste of time, and finally it is not favored by admissions officers, so a good activity is not how tall or too many, but an activity that can reflect your own ability and value from a small thing is a good activity.

Scientific research projects, publications, scientific research represents whether you have the ability to delve into research, whether you can sink, ** examines your ability to collect information, language organization, depth and breadth of research on problems. It is a potential reflection of what you are concerned about, what you are learning, what you are thinking, and whether you can contribute to academic research.

Internship experience, for students who combine business and management, internship experience can highlight whether you can successfully find a job after graduation, foreign admissions officers are guided by clear career goals, and only with a clear plan can you go to the career achievement.

Volunteer activities or club activities, which are a demonstration of your personality and dedication to teamwork, will be used by admissions officers to determine whether you will be able to integrate smoothly into the campus environment.

Competitions are a manifestation of your research and interest in a specific subject. An internationally accredited competition program not only demonstrates your knowledge of the subject, but also your personal charisma.

Background promotion generally refers to the background of academics, competitions, works, etc., in other words, whether you already have relevant experience in the field you want to enter.

Soft power assessment points.

Scientific research**.

It can be said that research and ** is an excellent window for schools to understand the background of students' academic attainments. A research project or an academic article may only be a small focus, but they potentially reflect what a student is paying attention to, learning, thinking, doing, solving, how to do it, whether his research is meaningful, and whether the student's thinking is insightful. More importantly, the school will use these to gauge whether the student is suitable for the major in academic research.

International competitions and extracurricular activities.

Each major program has its own characteristics, and the admitted students should also be very compatible in terms of personality characteristics, and extracurricular activities or competitions are an important way to disclose information about the characteristics of students. Whether they are actively engaged in various activities, what are the characteristics and nature of these activities, whether they play the role of a leader in activities, and whether they value communication and cooperation with others.

The characteristics that the school wants to know from this are: whether the student is motivated, how social he is, whether he is calm and good at thinking, what role he plays in the team, what his interests are, whether he has perseverance, how good he is in leadership, what is his team ability, and what is the potential of the student.

It would be better if you could get the rewards of the competition during the study period, because it can show the student's interests and learning ability, and show that the applicant has a strong comprehensive strength. Since the award requires long-term dedication to be reaped, students should consciously participate in relevant competitions and activities as soon as possible.

Work placement. Universities abroad, especially for master's programs, are oriented towards clear career goals. Only with a clear and quantifiable goal can the case be able to achieve professional success through further education, and this is the meaning of the internship. Every experience is a process of cognition and experience of the industry, and every perception is conducive to setting one's career direction correctly.

So, even a small internship, if you think about it deeply, will make a difference in your future work.

Students can enhance their professional practice background through internship opportunities. Many large companies usually conduct large-scale summer internship recruitment activities. During the internship period, it is necessary to ensure the fulfillment and quality of work.

Exchange experiences. In addition to assessing applicants' learning ability, institutions also place great emphasis on their communication and interpersonal skills. One of the most important aspects of the assessment is the experience of getting along with people from different cultural backgrounds, for example, studying or living abroad or in a place that is very different from the original cultural environment.

Most applicants, especially fresh graduates, rarely have such an experience, if they have the opportunity to win such an opportunity, they will be able to obtain educational opportunities in other cultures, which will be of great help to the application, because this experience is not only a more brilliant stroke on the resume, but also a lot of material for mining in the writing of the essay.

If you go abroad to study business in the future, you will participate in a major-related internship during your undergraduate degree, and business majors generally require students to have internship experience.

If you plan to study engineering, you should participate in a research project related to your major during your undergraduate studies.

Background improvement can be carried out mainly from three aspects, practical competition + scientific research** + internship work.

First of all, it is necessary to determine your own target direction and improve it in a targeted manner, otherwise it is useless to be unrelated to the major in the direction of application.

Competitions, internships, campus activities, etc. are more common during college. Internships need to be found outside of school.

At the beginning of the freshman year, at least the sophomore year should start to do internships and competitions, and the junior year will continue to be maintained, and there can be one more period in the internship, generally it is best to have three internships and two competitions.

If you can seek the guidance of your professor, or if you are good at it, you can also prepare.

If you have a late awareness of study abroad planning, and you find that it is too late to start preparing, you can find help from an agency in this situation, and it can generally be solved!

Studying abroad is mainly based on your academic performance during your time in school. And the best results you made during your undergraduate years. Then there's your English score and your GRE score.

There are many students applying to study in the United States, which makes each student who applies to face more competitors, so it is naturally more beneficial to have a background improvement before applying. Come now and see the reasons to do more background boosting.

If you want to apply to a university in the United States, it is not enough to have a good grade. Your overall quality is better, which is far more useful than getting a good score. Exams are only part of learning, it does not mean that studying is only for exams, and exams are not the whole of one's life.

So from this point of view, your overall quality is more useful than the test score when applying.

1. Evaluation system for background improvement

Many schools in the U.S. use their own unique assessment system when admitting students. In order to get a better evaluation in this evaluation, after arranging their own learning, everyone should try to spend as much time as possible to participate in extracurricular or social activities, and try to take the initiative to undertake some activities of the god of patience, and record more of their feelings when organizing and participating in activities in the whole process. If you are able to demonstrate your organization, participation, or leadership skills in these activities, the school will be able to see more clearly what kind of abilities and values the student has when recruiting students.

Second, try to highlight your personality when you do background promotion

It is difficult for a person to do well in many aspects, so the key concept when improving the background is that it is enough to use the main time and energy to do a few "wonderful" things and show a few outstanding abilities. Therefore, the characteristics and personalization of the event experience are very important for background improvement. Using these to highlight your important abilities can give admissions officers more of an impression of you.

Third, background improvement cannot be divorced from reality

In the process of application, whether it is the preparation of materials or the improvement of background, if it is detached from reality, then even if you spend more time and energy on documents, you can only improve the writing level of these documents. Therefore, everyone must be based on reality when dealing with it appropriately, otherwise it will be useless no matter how wonderful the experience is. Admissions officers tend to ask for specific details of some activities during the test to determine their authenticity.

Fourth, improve their overall quality

American universities tend to pay a lot of attention to students' ability and overall quality when recruiting students, because these schools will feel that evaluating the quality of a student cannot only be based on their test scores. While it is true that grades are important, other aspects of a student's quality should not be overlooked.