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发表于 2007-1-12 23:51:11 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

I think I need to make a response to this Boston University thing. Sorry, I couldn't type Chinese on my officie computer.

I am a first year PhD student at Boston University with full scholarship, and my major is one of the social science disciplines.(I would like to keep a secret here, and if you come to BU, you might find me around you at COM.) I have been noticing this issue for a couple of weeks, and I was surprised to find that many Chinese applicants gradually became so resentful toward such requirement of COM (college of communication) at BU. I feel obligated to stand out and say something about this. I am a Chinese, and I absolutely understand whatever situation those people have. Also, I know how hard it is for a student from social science discipline to get full financial support here to conitue his or her study. Nevertheless, at this time, I would like to stand out and critize you guys.

First, it is about the so-called high requirement of verbal score. If you are a student from biology or chemistry or physics, you can totally
forget what I said here. However, if you are a student majoring in communication, I can't put more emphasis on your verbal skills. First,
it is your fluent English to help you obtain a scholarship. Normally, for a PhD student from social science, our funding is from Teaching
Fellowship. The main responsibility is to teach discussion sessions. NOTICE: This is DISCUSSION SESSION not LAB. That's to say, you have to give lecture from the beginning to the end, and you have to motivate your students to participate in your lecture, and you have to
response to whatever questions they raised during or after class. I know some PhD students in chemistry at BU, their job is to teach Lab, which is just to tell those undergraduate students how to use all these lab equiptments. You know, somtimes, you just need to tell them hand by hand, and your verbal skills are not highly required here. I can still remember the first time I taught discussion session at BU, I
could clearly see the boring expression from my students. If I did even further worse, they would directly leave the classroom and
complain to the dean afterwards, and then of course I will be in trouble, and no professor would like to hire me as a TA anymore. (BTW: I got my Master from Johns Hopkins University.) Thus, for those who intends to go to U.S. to study communication or other social disciplines, BUILD your linguistic skills first. Recently, at BU CSSA (chinese students and scholarship association), I met some master students
from COM, and they kept complaing about how hard it is for them to find a job here. (Actually, for most American students at BU COM, they could easily find a job at NY with starting salary of 70,000 dollars per year.)Yes, it is true, most Chinese master students are all self-funded students, and when they went to NY to hunt for a job, how could they compete with all those Americans or English-native speakers?? If you are the boss, and you could hire a native speaker or non-native speaker to work for your journal or television station, who would you choose? I think there is no need for me to give answers here.

Second, it is about BU and BC. I could not deny that due to the location of Boston, Boston University get a myriad of benefits. For
instance, it is easy for us to find a job here in New York, and that is the very reason I turned down so many offers a year ago including
University of Wisconsin and Indiana University. But, if due to the requirement of three-minute video and high requirements of verbal
score, you said BU is nothing compared to BC, I could not agree with you. If you are really a big fan for communication and get yourself
dedicated to this profession, I think Boston University COM's master program is definitely TOP 5 of the United States. Maybe, BC has
other good programs, but compared to BU in terms of communication, I don't think it is a good place to go.

I am still a Chinese student , and I really want to make several suggestions to those applicats who wrote their opinions above. Verbal 580 is not a big deal for you, and if you want to survive here in COM, you should definitely score much higher than that, both for your scholarship and your career in United States. If you get scared by the requirements of high verbal score and video requirements and choose to resent and curse such a good university, I absolutely look down upon you. Just build your strong linguistic skills and get yourself prepared before you come here, you will find that all these qualities open a myriad of doors for you.

If you agree with me, and try your best to get into COM at BU, you could send message to my account at GTER. I promise, I treat you dinner at Boston University George Sherman Union. But, if you get scared by these requirements and say something bad to my school, I
believe that you will never be here, and even you get into one school in U.S. with communication major, I think the probability for you
to achieve a wise career in U.S. is dim.

That's it.

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发表于 2007-1-13 00:09:27 |只看该作者

thanks for your advices and suggestion.
People get frustrated when they can not meet the requirements of the schools during the application process, and what we complain is not about whether BU is good or not, absolutely, it is good enough for all people who major in comm, it's about another school that we can not get in. Can you imagine the pain and regret.
As for me, due to the 540 verbal score, I have to give it up at the end.

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发表于 2007-1-13 00:25:52 |只看该作者

:eek: "But, if you get scared by these requirements and say something bad to my school, I
believe that you will never be here, and even you get into one school in U.S. "
:funk:

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发表于 2007-1-13 00:29:33 |只看该作者

540 verbal is not a bad score. If I knew this earlier, I could talk to the dean for you. We made several exceptions each year. Anyway, wish you all the best for you applications to U.S..

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发表于 2007-1-13 00:43:37 |只看该作者

thank you Hanson.:handshake
im not qualified ,,,but i like BU much.my dream school.........
okay,its time to have a sweet dream again....bed time.lol.
good luck.

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发表于 2007-1-13 02:19:12 |只看该作者

虽然我没申,不过谢谢LZ,很中肯:)

Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow is a mystery,
Today is a gift,
That's why we call it the PRESENT!

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发表于 2007-1-13 09:50:21 |只看该作者

好帖子，留名。

我一直想攒一个first year PhD in comm major的帖子，但是没想到会这么忙。基本上想说的话，这里都有了。真的没有办法形容口语有多重要，而且并不是简单的做presentation啊，在新东方讲课啊，聊天那样的口语，而是真正的teaching effectiveness，你进了系以后padegogy的课上是跟美国学生一起学习当老师的，不仅要说的圆润自如，口吐莲花，还要有章有节，每一个discussion section都有teaching goal。大家一定做好准备，这个口语关是肯定要过的了，不然拿不到钱。；）

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发表于 2007-1-13 09:52:49 |只看该作者

怎么会有一段是乱码。重贴一遍吧。

我一直想攒一个first year PhD in comm major的帖子，但是没想到会这么忙。基本上想说的话，这里都有了。真的没有办法形容口语有多重要，而且并不是简单的做presentation啊，在新东方讲课啊，聊天那样的口语，而是真正的teaching effectiveness，你进了系以后padegogy的课上是跟美国学生一起学习怎么做一个老师，在social science的领域。每一个discussion section都有teaching goal。大家一定做好准备，这个口语关是肯定要过的了，不然拿不到钱。；）

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发表于 2007-1-13 15:39:34 |只看该作者

你说的我很想去了我学英语播音可以翻一翻做过的英文节目我现在就去看看UB 的requirement! 谢谢lz!

UMD

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发表于 2007-1-13 15:50:09 |只看该作者

回复 #9 蚱蜢舟的帖子

:eek:

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发表于 2007-1-13 22:55:03 |只看该作者

BU的COM确实很好
在当地也普遍被认可的

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发表于 2007-1-13 23:12:24 |只看该作者

回复 #1 hanson_wonn 的帖子

Thanks so much. Although I am not applying for School of Communication, I do apply for Boston University. I major in humanities. So the kind of challenge I face would be equally tremendous.

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发表于 2007-1-13 23:50:20 |只看该作者

To xxchen: Good to know that you apply for Humanities in BU. It is a good program, and it normally admits only one student from Asia every year. I have to two good PhD friends in Humanities department. One is a second-year phd student, who comes from Tibet, and the other is a nice girl from Taipei University, and she is a first-year PhD student too. In Humanities Department, they don't fund first year non-native PhD student with Teaching Fellowship. Thus, you might have to go through the bloody competition to get the Fellowship. Good Luck, and hopefully I could see you here.
Keep me updated.

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