ps中怎么导出tif_在PS中,没有足够的相关经历怎么办?

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Now I.have problems with my PS because I only have few relating experience. Can you give me some advice?

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Your concern here is that you don’t have enough relevant experiences to fulfill the expectations of a PS.

You’re right to think about this. You’re asking a sensible question. Experiences you mention in the PS really need to count. They need to add something. They need to have a purpose in being there in the statement. How do you do that? What’s the strategy? You need a strategy. Because you know what? Even people who have a list of brilliant, pertinent, targeted experiences to talk about in their PS often write about them in a way that doesn’t live up to their potential! By which I mean their potential positive impact on the reader!

Let’s start by asking: Why do experiences in your PS need to count? Why do they need to be relevant? Relevant to what? We’ll get to that. But let’s begin by quickly thinking about what a PS actually is.

It is an opportunity to support or enhance other parts of your application. The PS should offer something beyond the other aspects of your application.

It’s an important document because if you have a good chance of getting into the program, it’s likely others do too. The reason programs want you to submit a PS is so they can differentiate between you and other candidates. Because without the PS it’s very hard to differentiate between candidates with the same test scores, grades, and other numerical indicators.

So, the PS should do two big things, fundamentally. These are the big things the reader wants to know about when they read your PS.

[1] They want to be able to differentiate you from other candidates. So, it should also give the reader a sense of who you are.

[2] And they want to know that you’ll succeed on the program. (And by ‘succeed’ we can say we mean ‘aptitude for the program’ and ‘motivation for the program’). So, It should explain the context that’s got you to this point, now, the application (because you need to use the experiences you do have to substantiate your motivation and aptitude for applying).

So, everything you write in the PS needs to be aimed at either conveying you, uniquely or substantiating your case for admission (“I have the aptitude and motivation to succeed on your program”). Conveniently, challengingly fulfilling these two requirements requires the same thing: Writing about your specific experience and using it to substantiate a persuasive case for admission.

So, there are three aspects to a strategy that will turn your experience into an asset that really benefits your case for admission:

Here’s an example of a really lackluster sentence.

“I analyzed the data using SPSS and provided a report to the management team.”

It’s just stating, factually, what the person did. There are several things you should do with a lackluster sentence like this:

[1] Firstly, make it more engaging by thinking about the specifics: How much data? What kind of data? This will not only make it easier for the reader to visualize what you are talking about (thus making them pay more attention, thus making you more memorable and interesting to them), but it will also give them some idea of the scale of what you did.

[2] Secondly, this latter word ‘scale’ points to the next basic point I want to make in order to improve a sentence like this: Don’t just describe, factually, what you did. Reflect on it in order to evaluate the impact and significance of what you did. What did you achieve with your analysis? Was the report acted upon? What were the conclusions? Were the recommendations followed? And—in terms of personal impact and significance—what did you learn from the experience?

[3] Thirdly, these questions amount to asking yourself: ‘Why does this experience matter?’ ‘Why is it significant?’ But you should go even further than that! You should ask ‘Why should this experience matter to the reader?’ Why should the admissions officer care about this? How does it relate to the program? How does it help explain why you’re applying and why you’re qualified? Your concerned that you don’t have relevant experiences. There are two things to think about here: One quite specific, practical, and important. One big, general, reflective, and important.

Let’s start with specific and practical:

[A] This is about your aptitude for the program. Look at the descriptions of the course, go in-depth on this. Look at all the materials you can possibly find (I am a big fan of reading faculty members’ blogs – you can figure a lot out from those). Be analytical when you look at all this. You’re not collecting program information to repeat back at them in your PS. You are collecting the information in order to infer what it takes to succeed on that program; then analyze your experiences and figure out how and why they demonstrate that you also have what it takes to succeed on that program; this involves a degree of creativity: Do the research and write your resume first (know that you will never, ever be repeating information that’s in your resume verbatim in your PS). Then take a little time and gently reflect on it all. Why do you have what it takes to excel on that program? How can you explain your experiences in a way that substantiates that? Do this and you’re already doing well.

Now, big and general but also important:

[B] This is about your motivation for the program. If you have few relevant experiences, your PS should be seeking to answer: Why are you applying? The reader will want to know! If you have few relevant experiences, this will be one of the underlying questions your PS should address. So, I think that’s your starting point. Don’t worry about how relevant your experiences are at this stage, because—quite simply, if you think about it—they must be relevant. You’re applying to the program, right? Therefore, you’re motivated by the program and you’d probably be quite good at it, right? Yes. Therefore, all you have to do is explain how you figured this out! How did you arrive at the knowledge that you have the motivation and aptitude for this program? Don’t worry about what you think they want to see. Start with what you think. What do you want to see? What’s the story you tell yourself? That’s how you start a great statement.

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