100篇留学ps（个人陈述）范文

留学申请文书范文100篇 Subject: Successful Princeton Applicant Through all of my accomplishments and disappointments, I have always been especially proud of the dedication and fervor I possess for my personal beliefs and values. Unfortunately, it has often been difficult for me to remain outwardly firm and confident in a town where most people think alike and reject exceptions. Whenever I have expressed my position as a pro-life advocate, peers have badgered, accused, and ridiculed me for simply believing in something that they scorn. Despite all the pressure, I never waive red from my belief, yet I became frustrated and began to lose the courage to publicly express my opinion on this controversial topic. To gain some insight and reassurance for myself, I attended the New Jersey Right to Life Convention in the spring of 1995. This experience uplifted me and offered great inspiration and enlightenment. At the convention I received an overwhelming amount of support and encouragement from wonderful people who advocate the very principles I believe in. This convention was so inspiring that the next day in school I was able to relate my experience to one of my biggest opponents on the subject. Also, the abundant information available at the convention enabled me to defend my position on abortion more effectively. Attending this convention accomplished two things. It proved my commitment to my belief, in that I took the initiative to strengthen and support my opinion, refusing to give up or lose heart. Unlike many others, I was eager and willing to gain new knowledge so I may successfully promote my belief to others. In addition, this convention invigorated my confidence to stand up for what I believe in and taught me to never lose the courage of my convictions ********************** Subject: Successful Cornell Applicant Tell us about opinion have you had to defend. How has this affected your belief system? I chuckle to myself every time I think about this. I am perceived as a mild-mannered, intelligent individual until I mention that I am involved in riflery. It is interesting to watch someone’s expression change. It is as if I instantaneously grew a pair of horns and a sharp set of claws. Believe me this gets worst; I am a member of the NRA. I try to tell these folks that I belong to the NRA to fire my rifle. "Oh my God! You fire real guns? with real bullets?!?" they remark with a perplexed look on their face. Besides having horns and claws, I now possess a tail and leathery wings. This is how it began five years ago. I had played on a soccer team for several years. As I grew older I began having difficulty playing soccer because of shortness of breath. I was diagnosed as having mild asthma, which ended my soccer career and eliminated my participation in most physical sports. Shortly afterward, during a Boy Scout summer camp, I participated in riflery at their shooting range. This was the first time I had ever touched a firearm. To my amazement, I won the camp’s first place award for marksmanship. I was more than eager when a friend of mine asked me if I would like to join a shooting club. My parents were wary when I asked to join the rifle club. My mother feared guns, but my father felt there was no problem with trying this sport. Gratefully, he gave me the opportunity to try rifle marksmanship, despite secretly hoping that I would quit. Both of my parents were afraid of what people would think about their son’s involvement with guns. Like my parents a majority of people believe that all firearms are dangerous to our society. All they remember are the hysterical news releases of street violence and injured children. I am often asked how many deer I’ve shot. Frankly, I could never bring myself to injure another living creature and neither would most of the competitors I have met. Yet, I keep finding myself defending the sport from all of the misconceptions that surround it. Most people have developed a negative impression of the sport and I have found that these prejudices are difficult, if not impossible, to rectify. Because of this conflict, I have become an open minded individual. I express my opinions without reservation, and I have learned to accept opinions and viewpoints contrary to my own. I do not intend to alter what I enjoy because of the ignorance of friends and acquaintances. If people have a negative view of me simply because of the sport I am active in, then they must be so superficial that they cannot see the person who I really am. I am no longer apprehensive of being perceived as a gun toting, trigger happy fanatic, even though I still endeavor to educate my friends and relatives on the beauty of this sport. *********************************** Subject: East Asian Studies It’s not often that a kid growing up in small-town New Mexico strikes up a passion for Chinese civilization. Nevertheless, my interest in different cultures flourished during my childhood and adolescence in New Mexico. The beauty and breathtakingly scenic landscape of this state is enriched with the pronounced cultural diversity brought about by Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo nations and a large Hispanic population that represents close to 50% of state. When I was in kindergarten I attended a bilingual school in Lemitar, a small town in southern New Mexico. Most of the children at this school were Hispanic. This allowed me at a very early age to experience a language and culture different from mine. My father has always had a keen interest in people from other countries and cultural backgrounds. As a librarian, my father has always encouraged me to read not only Western Philosophy, but Eastern Philosophy as well. In addition, To a large extent, and by most definitions, I have always been a non-traditional and unconventional student. I went to a high school with a curriculum that was as challenging for me as any course I have taken in college. This high school was unique because we studied everything from the origin of Western Civilization to modern-day Western thought. Another unique feature of this school was that at the end of our senior year we had to give an oral presentation in front of a host of panelists from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This experience helped me develop my ability to think critically and present a cogent thesis. It forced me to grow not only as a student, but more importantly, as an individual. When I graduated from high school I rebelled against traditional education and decided not to apply to college. This decision was to the great dismay of my parents, who had entered college immediately after high school. With much resistance, I enrolled at Santa Fe Community College. This was just to satisfy my parents’ wishes, and I spent only one semester there. Although I wanted to study and continue to learn, I yearned to reach out to people and find a different mode of study -- one that would allow me to understand myself better so that I could relate better to the world around me. With this goal, I decided to attend the New Mexico Academy of Massage and Advanced Healing Arts. The school provided me with a unique mind/body balance that has helped me become a better-rounded person. I studied subjects that ranged from Anatomy and Physiology to Yoga and Tai Chi. After graduating, I got a job at the Santa Fe Sport Medicine Institute as a Physical Therapy Assistant. I used Massage techniques to help people who were injured in auto accidents or sporting events. This type of work allowed me to directly help people -- the people I massaged told me that the pain they experienced prior to the massage had subsided. Relieving the pains of these people nurtured in me a sense of purpose. In addition, it increased my interest in Eastern Philosophy, making me want to learn more about Asia. I began to read many classical Chinese texts to further my knowledge about Chine se Philosophy. Soon I developed a profound interest in learning how to read and speak the Chinese language. The opportunities for studying Chinese were very limited, however. At 22,I had saved up some money and now decided to go live in Asia to experience a Chinese culture first-hand, and to learn how to speak Mandarin Chinese. My desire to go to Asia was spawned by a genuine interest in reconciling differences I found between Eastern and Western cultures. Similarly, I wanted to pursue this experience because it would provide me with a unique opportunity to broaden the perspective I had on the world as a whole. This is how I ended living in Taichung, Taiwan and visiting mainland China. When I arrived in Taiwan, I remember getting off the airplane and hearing everyone speaking Chinese. Everything I saw and heard was unfamiliar to me. Seeing a different world made a huge impact on me; I can still recall how exotic my environment was. In Taiwan, I went through an intensive Chinese language immersion program. Slowly I began to feel more comfortable living there, as I learned to communicate with people in Chinese. I was invited to teach English at a private school for children, but I told the school that I had no teaching experience. The school informed me that if I took a short teaching training class, I would be ready to teach. And they even offered to pay me for the training classes. However, I refused to be paid for the training. The school was so impressed by this that after I completed the training, they appointed me director of the English Language program. I was astounded by the generosity and honesty that I received from the people in Taiwan. This was a truly remarkable experience. In Taiwan, I lived with a Chinese family. This allowed me to assimilate my culture with the customs and habits of this particular Chinese family. We had long conversations about fundamental aspects of Chinese culture and philosophy. The family also brought me to all the Chinese festivals and celebrations. It was in Taiwan that I realize d I must return to college in the United States, and earn a degree in East Asian Studies. After spending a year in Taiwan, I returned to the United States to complete my degree. My time Taiwan taught me so much about myself, and it gave me the perspective to see things from both a Western and Eastern point of view. Since my return to the United States, my life has seen some exciting changes. I got married about a year after I returned from Taiwan. My wife is originally from Venezuela, and she has introduced a new host of cultural norms that I am learning about. During my free time I teach my mother-in- law English. She, of course, insists that I need to attain fluency in both Spanish and Chinese. And that is exactly what I am doing. My wife and I are both students at Rutgers University, and we share our ambitions, hopes and expectation of attending graduate school. Currently I am a senior, majoring in East Asian Studies with a minor in Political Science. The growing importance of Asia as a determining factor in global economy and the increasing interaction and commerce of the U. S. with China, suggests to me that pursing a career in law would be pertinent and appealing. My knowledge of Chinese culture and mastery of the Chinese language would be a very strong asset, and it would let me make a significant contribution to the political, commercial and cultural exchange between the U. S. and Asia. ************************************** Subject: UMass. Amherst Anthropology As a double major in Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Rhode Island, I have gained a strong background in both fields. My background is e specially strong in physical anthropology, my primary field of interest. Phy sical anthropology consumes my life; I do not study it because I find it som ewhat interesting but because I am devoted to it; I want to make it my life. In addition to maintaining a high GPA throughout my college career, and mak ing the Dean抯 list several times, I have also worked hard as a supervisor a t Brooks Pharmacy for the past five years. Working my own way through colleg e not only demonstrates my determination to gaining a high quality education and the seriousness with which I treat academics, but also attests to my le adership ability, maturity, and responsibility, both as a supervisor and as a student at the University of Rhode Island. My primary goal in applying to your graduate program is to prepare myself for a career in forensic anthrop ology. Interested in furthering the current body of research and in improvin g techniques used in the identification of human remains, I am very committe d to pursuing forensic anthropology and believe your graduate program in ant hropology will provide me with an excellent foundation in the area of physic al and forensic anthropology. With a Masters and Ph.D., I will be well prepa red to lead a very promising career. While I have no doubt the program will push me to my limits, I am confident that I can face the rigorous challenges posed by graduate study and thrive under the demanding environment that adv anced studies entail. From my transcripts, you will see that not only am I a well-balanced student, I actually thrive in rigorous, upper level courses, courses akin to graduate-level courses. Armed with the confidence that I can excel at difficult courses, I believe I can achieve the highest level of su ccess and satisfaction by taking the most demanding graduate program availab le. In addition to my ability to excel in the classroom, I have demonstrate d a proficiency in all aspects of conducting research. Research has become a fundamental part of my college career, and I hope it will become the primar y component of my future. As a sophomore at the University of Rhode Island, I designed a research project entitled "Grooming and Affiliative Behavior in Three Species of Non-Human Primates" under the guidance of Dr. Su Boatright -Horowitz in the Psychology Department at URI. My research proposal gained a pproval from the Institutional Care and Use Committee at URI and at the Roge r William Park and Zoo where the three species of non-human primates (Gibbon s, Sakis, and Lemurs) included in my study are kept. In addition to writing a successful research proposal, I also wrote and received a small funds gran t from the University of Rhode Island in order to conduct my research. By be ing intimately involved in every aspect of research, from proposal and grant writing to data collection and analysis, I have learned what it takes to be a researcher, but more than that, I have learned how fulfilling and interes ting research can be.In the spring of 2005,I will be presenting my results a t a poster presentation at the University of Rhode Island, and am planning t o eventually publish my findings. Not only has this experience shown me that I am capable of excelling in conducting research, but it has also allowed m e to develop a love for the hands on learning that is so crucial to successf ul research. In my final semester at URI, I will be participating in an ongo ing research project concerning brain function and attention span under the direction of Dr. Dominic Valentino, a professor in the psychology department at URI. This project will undoubtedly further advance my academic skills an d reinforce my passion for research.Physical anthropology is more than just my primary area of education; it has also become my hobby and lifestyle. The questions posed and answered via the study of physical anthropology have fa scinated me for a very long time and have stimulated me to ask and seek to a nswer further questions. With my mind set on the very specific goal of prepa ring myself as excellently as possible for a future in the field of forensic anthropology, I am fully confident that, with the ability to pursue my educ ation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I will not only be able to fulfill my dream, but to contribute substantially to the university as well . ******************************************* Subject: San Jose State - Environmental Studies Since the release of Rachel Carson抯 Silent Spring in the 1960抯, mankind ha s expanded its quest to come to grips with the competing virtues of human ec onomic entropy and of maintaining the integrity and diversity of the natural environment. As awareness of environmental degradation has increased, so ha s the realization of the complexity of interconnected webs of relationships among organisms and the physical and chemical environment. With this awarene ss, we have also come to realize that environmental problems are not easily fixed by simply focusing on a single problem with no analysis of other issue s. This tendency to blindly solve environmental problems without understandi ng the full complexity of the problem was evident in the Environmental Prote ction Agency抯 (EPA) recent mandate that Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) be a required ingredient in gasoline formulas with the goal of increasing co mbustion efficiency. A fuel oxygenate, MTBE enhances the octane in gasoline and decreases carbon monoxide emission by increasing burning efficiencies. I n its haste to declare MTBE as a required ingredient in gasoline, the EPA fa iled to consider a basic chemical property of MTBE and its long-term effects upon the environment. Because MTBE is highly water-soluble, it dissolves in water, leading to higher concentrations of MTBE in many lakes in the Califo rnia Sierra Nevada mountains and in many groundwater supplies. Hence, by add ressing only one component of a system separately, the EPA failed to see the ramifications of our apparent solution. This myopic approach to environment al remediation commonly subverts our good intentions to solve environmental problems and demonstrates a lack of understanding of how inter-related syste ms work. It is my goal to aid in our understanding of environmental pollutio n on a global scale by not only researching the fate and transport of contam inants, but also by analyzing how our current philosophies and policies affe ct these problems. By applying an interdisciplinary approach to both the spe cific scientific and technical aspects of a problem and by thoroughly analyz ing social and cultural factors, I believe I can more effectively in analyze the true extent of our pollution problem and help to determine an appropria te response.In preparation for this work, my undergraduate degree in environ mental studies has provided me with a solid foundation in both the sciences and state and federal environmental policy. My undergraduate emphasis in haz ardous materials has given me a broad knowledge of the types of chemical rel eases common in both developed and undeveloped countries and their chemical and physical effects upon the environment. Through graduate and post-graduat e research, I hope to further enhance this knowledge by studying the effects of chemicals commonly used in industry cycles on specific environmental com partments such as bay wetlands and partitioning to other compartments such a s XXXX. In my graduate study, I would also like to expand my undergraduate s tudy of environmental law by increasing my knowledge of the law to the area of land use and its relationship to contaminant fate and transport. In addit ion to my academic background, I believe that my work experience will also p lay a key role in helping me find success in my graduate and post-graduate s tudies. For the last ten years I have held a number of management positions in business. While these positions have not specifically related to environm ental work, the experience has provided me with invaluable insight into how both large and small companies operate. The perspective of business manageme nt is badly needed in the environmental field where time and again we discov er that environmental compliance can best be achieved by understanding busin ess practices and tailoring compliance measures so that companies can remain profitable and be environmentall