美国传媒专业怎么申？（经验贴，内附大量案例）2014.8.24 更新

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The Recommendation Letter: a Reluctant “How-To”

        When I first started exploring the application process from the perspective of non-native English speakers, I understood the basic reasons as to why people deserved a little help navigating the complex application process. In the U.S., many professors will help undergraduate students to apply to graduate school. I, myself, asked for advice and recommendation letters from several professors when I first applied to graduate school.

        When I first learned about the patterns behind recommendation letters that non-native English speakers must follow, I was initially appalled. I found that people often write their own recommendation letters! It sounds like fraud to me!

However, as I began to understand the context more, I changed my opinion. U.S. applicants benefit from the assistance of professors who are already familiar with the system in which they are sending their undergraduate students that they help. The same professors who teach U.S. undergraduates will also teach U.S. graduates, so they know what other programs are looking for and how to phrase the student’s accomplishments. Without this HUGE advantage, international students are suffering a big disadvantage during the application process.

When I was working as an attorney, I learned that U.S. Judges sign motions and orders into effect that are written by the attorneys themselves. In other words, to make it easier on the busy judges, the lawyers from either side will write the specific statements that magically gain legal force. The judge observes the situation and decides among which of these pre-written memos are most appropriate.

After getting to understand the challenges that non-native English speakers face when applying to graduate school, I realized their solution is similar to that of the U.S. Judge. Many of the foreign students have AMAZING experiences, yet their managers are very busy or do not have a strong competency in English. However, they often read English and are willing to read what their best workers or interns have written about their own experiences at the job, even if it is in English.

The best recommendation letters I’ve worked on will tell the following story:
-        What the recommender does / what their job title is
-        How he or she first met you and what their initial impressions might have been, usually revealing some initial assumption of weakness in some skill set or category
-        What you did on the job
-        What it was obvious you learned on the job and/or what skills you really developed
-        How you improved on the job
-        How dedicated you seemed while on the job, complete with stories about how hard you worked
-        When considering all of the above, why this recommender truly believes in your personal statement’s story of:
o        How and why you developed your skills in the first place
o        How you learn while doing your tasks
o        How and why you have the passion, hard work, and dedication to do great in the type of graduate school programs to which you are applying
o        And finally, how he or she believes that you will have a great career overall

ALL RECOMMENDATION LETTERS EVER essentially follow that formula. The art in a recommendation letter is in identifying the best and most relevant stories to create that perfect match between where you are at in your education, your maturity, and your potential long-term career and what the school offers, considering its philosophy and target students. I know that’s a ‘mouthful,’ but it’s a complex recipe indeed.

        Returning to my perspective in participating in this process, I believe that any English translator helps out both the recommender and the applicant by helping to tell those stories in a quick and efficient way. The thing I love most of all is when I’ve seen the recommender agree with the applicant’s story, after a long translation (and understanding) process that really comprehends that story. These recommenders are often very important, powerful, or busy people, much like U.S. Judges, so when they agree with the story you and your translator have crafted, it’s a very special moment that causes any ethical issues to fade away. These brilliant, busy, but not necessarily amazingly English-speaking businesspeople and academics simply do not have the time to achieve the weight and persuasiveness that their perspective should carry. They should be given the curtesy to sign off on someone else’s translation. It’s the only way anyone on the other side of the language barrier can hope to compete with the U.S. student with his or her professor’s support.

        The Western recommendation formula is simple. It demands that the reader know the basics of the recommender and asks the recommender to really sell the applicant’s story through his or her own experiences. Most powerful people are so busy that they have trouble remembering the whole story, but if you remind them and translate it to English for them, they will agree and carry all the persuasiveness their experiences and positions should have.

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很好的帖子，虽然R神的英文advice读起来让我眼冒金星啊

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看到media mgmt果断进！想问问yanyan姐，MGMT的专业在美国算比较少了，好学校也不多，个人知道的排名好的也就CMU， USC了，个人很喜欢这两个项目的原因也是实践机会很丰富，除此之外还有什么好学校的推荐吗～谢谢(≧ω≦)

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claireRRR 发表于 2014-8-27 18:20
看到media mgmt果断进！想问问yanyan姐，MGMT的专业在美国算比较少了，好学校也不多，个人知道的排名好的也 ...

还有比较推荐的是fordham和我们iub telecomm MS下属的media management 方向。另外雪城大学也有一个new media management专业。三点，第一，硕士看综合排名是一件不可取的事情。第二，虽然都叫做media management，但是这几个学校的media management学的东西其实差别很大，建议去研究课表。第三，media management这个专业本身不是一个很值得学的专业。用Ryland的一句话，media management的本质是management，不是media。其实管理media还是管理包子铺，本质上差别没有那么大。这也是为什么Ryland一直建议，学media management不如直接去学mkt。

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claireRRR 发表于 2014-8-27 18:20
看到media mgmt果断进！想问问yanyan姐，MGMT的专业在美国算比较少了，好学校也不多，个人知道的排名好的也 ...

我倒认为，媒体的管理是有其特殊性的，和别的行业真心不是一回事。其实其他行业都有自身的特点，但是这些特点你在很短的时间内，通过实践或学习是很容易掌握的，因为他们和媒体相比都相对传统，存在时间也久，变化也不是太大。相对而言，媒体的新的形式，新的应用，新的商业模式，变化的太快，也确实一直在变化。媒体管理更多的研究这些变化，研究新的趋势，如何利用这些趋势，如何预见新的变化。我在USC就学的comm management, 我本科是学MKT的，来USC之前一直在研究MBA，发现了媒体管理的专业后豁然开朗，这才是我想学的，应该学的啊！CMU那个会包含商业课程，USC那个就欠缺了，我是到business选的finance， entrepreneurship等课程。

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无名大侠 发表于 2014-8-28 08:22
我倒认为，媒体的管理是有其特殊性的，和别的行业真心不是一回事。其实其他行业都有自身的特点，但是这 ...

说实话。那是因为你有MKT的基础。。没有商科基础学习的mgmt非常的虚。。Media management的基础是management，带有media的特色。但是国内很多本科生，本科学新闻什么的，基本没有，或者只有很少的实习经验。跑过来学mgmt，也有学校要，甚至可能拿到全奖，比如IUB。根本学的非常虚，找工作非常不好找。

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我的专业跟传媒一点关系也没有，但无意中进来看到这个帖子，特别是关于文书中spark的观点也无比赞同~~
多谢~~

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calulu 发表于 2013-7-5 15:18
二、选校

    其实如何选校这一点已经有很多前辈大牛写过帖子了，但是到选校的时候，很多人还是会晕。尤 ...

只是突然觉得很想看楼主的西藏纪录片:(
正在思考专业选校，看了楼主帖子很有启发啊

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先马克一下~看了前面一部分，启发好大，谢谢卤煮分享！