 @IVYEDU.org 青藤优邦 托福|雅思|SAT|ACT|新概念|留学申请 截止目前，RD录取结果已经放榜过半，只有少部分学校还没有放榜（详细日期可查看：美国大学RD轮申请结果时间）。除了得偿所愿的offer，或是一口回绝的reject，可能有很多人被defer或是放到了waiting list的名单中。 无论你是获得了reject还是waiting list，大家还可以做很多努力，除了补交标化成绩或是portfolio以外，你还需要写一封好的love letter。 首先，要明白的是，如果你被waitlist了，那说明你是有资格被这个学校录取的。之所以会被waitlist可能有几种情况：学校为了这一届学生的多样性录取了和你资质相仿的申请者；虽然你已经够资格被录取，但是有比你更加出色的申请者。 今天的内容是想鼓励大家抓住这个机会并且付诸行动，去积极争取被录取的机会，除非这个学校明确表示不欢迎申请者跟校方有额外的联系。 在之前的申请中，你已经向校方展示了你符合这个学校录取要求的材料，他们将你放在waitlist上，证明他们依然希望可以有机会录取你。接下来要做的就是通过一封简洁有力的邮件，向学校展示录取你的额外理由。
前面两个部分能够展示如今的你和当初申请时相比已经是一个更出色的申请者了，第三个方面则显示了你与这所学校的契合度就好比寒冷冬日里一副温暖的手套与双手，并且也体现了你如果被录取一定会选择去这所学校的决心。
这封邮件要简短并动人，最多两页。不要重写甚至再总结一遍你的人生历程或是申请文书，集中篇幅在你递交申请后所取得的新的成果。 当年我被 Emory 和 纽约大学 放入waiting list 之后，我和上海的老师一起研究了两篇love letter，在此给大家做以参考。 纽约大学 The way I love purple Dear NYU admission, I am so sorry to bother you at this moment. My name is Li Yulin and my Net ID is ＊＊＊＊＊. I have been placed in waiting list by NYU last month (Early Decision 2). As I have clarified before, I have a deep love in NYU. I always felt one of my body part are bonded with NYU. But at the time when I received the waiting letter, I felt my life became dark. I have no courage to write this letter to you because I know it may change nothing. However, my professor in ALI at NYUSH talked with me for a long time. She encourage me to write something to you. After a long consideration, I felt I have to write this letter to you at this moment in order to let you know what I have done these days, who really am I, and why I worth your reconsideration. Last year, I got an “level A” last year in the candidate weekend. Since then I have fallen in love with the school, the NYU community around the world.Now, as an American Language Institute(ALI) at Shanghai student, I am studying and living in NYUSH. I am no longer the naive kid looking at the fascinating brand “New York University” and childishly talking “I love this university so much”. The way I love purple is from the deep-side of my heart. I love sitting in the library, enjoying the prosperous metropolis and reading a light novel quietly. I love “arguing” with professors and classmates in the courses like Intercultural Communicative Competence and working out a relatively reasonable answer together. I love having a rest in the lounge and holding a small conversation with a native speaker casually. I love holding the purple paper bags and hanging the honorable purple student card on students’ neck. I love the feeling staying in the auditorium, attending amazing lectures by some great masters, or just standing beside the cafe and enjoying a fuller Caramel Macchiato. I love the time when I finished my presentation of founding a “NYUSH TV Station” to the chancellor and getting so much valuable advice, and I love the purple logo which was designed by me for the future NYUSH TV Station..... The way I love purple is not the way I love the color. I love all the definitions the purple NYU stands for. Maybe love is too weak a word to describe my feelings. I am eager for continually studying in the atmosphere of purple in New York City. I may feel better sitting outside the campus building on the curb than any other place outside the NYU I can think of or imagine. Some people search all their life for this and never find what they love. But I know what I love: I love metropolis, I love the school without a wall. There are many universities without walls; however, lying in the metropolis, only NYU. Finally, I want to tell you that my SAT score of December has been delayed until several days ago. The new score has already been sent to you as soon as I received it. I would appreciate it if your admission can reconsider my December SAT score and give me an opportunity to search the purple lying in my deep heart. Here I also attached the scanned copy of my SAT score report. I know the SAT score is not the only criteria that you consider; however, it witnesses my progress. As a student who decides to study abroad late, I make nearly no preparation for SAT until last October. It is the first time I began to know SAT and I think have done a quite good job on it. I expect the opportunity to sit in the campus of NYU in NYC. Best wishes, Yulin Li. 这篇love letter是写给纽约大学的。文章主要的内容主要在讲我在申请过后又参加了NYUSH的项目，并且我对纽约大学的执念从未改变。另外再次强调由于成绩延误问题，SAT成绩没有及时提交，并致以歉意。反正我当时写这篇是哭着写的，不知道大家对自己的梦校有没有这样的感受。 埃默里大学 Dear admissions of Emory University, My name is Li Yulin. I am a candidate of your undergraduate program this fall. Unfortunatly, I have been placed in the waiting list by your admission. As you can see in my application file, I was graduate from my high school last year and will enroll in the university this fall. There is a gap year between my education enrollment. Here I want to report what I have done during the gap year. Generally speaking, this year is really important to me in which I find my real position and experience what major really fits me. “What kind of education suit you?” This is the question I always ask myself. As I have claimed in my personal statement, I am a versatile boy full of curiosity. I love to be a creator, a leader, a practitioner, but not a follower. Chinese educational system, which I have experienced for the last twelve year, is quite opposite with my dream. I want to experience more, to experience the education based on research and explore in America. Discussing with my parents and friends repeatedly and considering for a while, I decided to gap a year to reconsider my major and to materialized my life goals’ list. One of my ideal major choices is Computer Science. When I was in my senior high school, I have a thought to make an app which called “Knowing the School”. According to my original idea, the app is the link of school, students and parents. Teachers can post assignment and other academic information on the app; Students and parents can easily see them on their own smart phones. They can even chat though the app. However, because lacking of professional knowledge, it failed at last. But that is my first time contact with Computer programming. Now, my father, an educator, has fulfilled my original dream. He cooperates with other companies has established this app which has been used in hundreds of primary and high schools in Dalian, Shenyang and Changchun. I am also involved in the development of this app since last May. Now i have learnt some basic rules of programing by myself such as the basic JAVA language and C programming language when I was in my high school. For the last four and half months, I spend much time working with some undergraduates, graduates and professors in the school of Electronic information and Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). I enjoyed the time when we worked together in the computer lab, writing the program and testing. My professor and friends has a deep influence on the subject Computer Science to me and I have already have a basic understanding of it. Together with them, we have already finish our project and just contribute our paper, Two Approaches on Accelerating Bayesian Two Action Learning Automata(see the attachment), to 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Computation (ICIC). The project we worked mainly solve the problem that how to shorten the time of data convergence. We have found serval ways to shorten the convergence time and some of them are based on my ideas. These days, I am also studying in New York University in Shanghai(NYUSH) as an America Language Institute(ALI) student. In addition to the regular courses provided by NYUSH, I also learnt some knowledge by myself such as calculus and basic economic theories. The most valuable thing I am doing now, I believe, is founding the NYUSH TV Station. TV Station is a great platform to connect both my favorite major: Computer Science and Social Media. With my friends, the freshman of NYUSH, we made ten pages proposals(see the attachment, it is the Chinese version. English version is translating, but has not finished yet) and have made presentations to the chancellor and other leadership of the school. We are still working hard to fulfill our dream and I am quite sure we will make our dream TV Station come true one day. Considering this year and the past 12 years, I have found my life pursuitis “Change the World.” Although it sounds like Grimms' Fairy Tales, I still have confidence that with my knowledge one day, I can do more to give a change, even maybe only a little part. My original experience and my gap year learning give me the faith that if we can have a dream and we are realizing it, the world can be changed. For me, my gap year is exploring every area I am fond of. I have viewed several regions, and I will do more to discover my major penchant and to help others. Every time when I looked over my decision, I will always ask myself another question “Do the gap year time worth what you wanted?” and I always get a certain answer “Yes, that is what I wanted.” Also here I attached the recommendation letter from my professor in SJTU as a reference. I would appreciate it if you can add this report, recommendation letter and other materials to my application files. Best wishes, Yulin Li 这篇写给Emory的love letter，主要在补充材料。其中包括申请后在上海交通大学做的项目以及在上海纽约大学的课程学习。也包括自己未来的努力目标和方向。 另外还有一些小trick可以跟大家分享： 1、学会使用自己的全部技能。我在收到密西根大学的waiting list后，给密西根大学发了用我最喜欢的摄影作品制成的明信片。如果你有类似的技能，这个时候赶紧用一下吧。 2、真诚永远是打动人最好的方法，写love letter时，心态一定要是真诚的。 3、如果手里还有申请后做项目的研究资料、教授和知名企业的推荐信的话，这个时候再不发，就真的没有机会了。把你所有的资料都发出去！ 最后希望大家Offer收到手软，去到自己理想的学校！ 精选文章阅读推荐 有一种信仰叫严格 有一种习惯叫自律 有一种力量叫尊严 |
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