Boston univ.的要求

hanson_wonnUID：197715

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 motive 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, ithey could easier find a job at NY with starting salary of 70,000 dollars per year.)Yes, it is true, they 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.