虽然大学生在年龄上已成熟并接受过多年的教育，但他们在学业，学术规划上，备考，申请研究生以及职业发展和就业等方面，仍然需要专业的咨询服务。如果在大学生进入大学学习之初就给他们提供这些方面的专业性指导，相信对他们是有益的。如果这种指导能够个性化的进行，那就会更有价值。到目前这种专业化的服务还很少见。

这种专业化咨询服务作为一套解决方案可由几个模块组成。第一个模块是评估/规划。 在专业测试工具的帮助下，对学生的学业，天赋，性格，兴趣及职业方向等进行测评并有专业的咨询师提供相应的评估，规划报告。 第二模块是协助学生在校或在工业界做学业/研究/调查/实习/工作。这部分的服务需要提高实施计划所需的资源和指导。第三模块是协助研究生院申请或找工作。升学辅导的服务在市场上已很成熟，研究生院的申请也不例外。但我们提到的是个性化的服务。比如,专业的升学服务包括提前帮助学生与申请的目标大学的老师甚至是教授建立联络等。帮助找工作就更是个性化的服务，太多不确定因素，而且很难保证成功。

理论上，讲针对大学生的专业化的咨询服务是确实有其价值的，值得一试。它对那些能有幸享受其服务的大学生来讲，无论是在校学习还是大学毕业后的路，都有很好的指引。然而对想正儿八经的提高这种专业服务的人来讲，绝非易事。由于该服务的定位是完全个性化的，它的难度就更大了。但有志者事竟成，相信这是个有意义的事业。

Even though, College students are normally quite matured in age and have already had years of educational experiences, yet, they still need professional counseling services in terms of academic / research planning, guidance on preparation for graduate / professional school, and preparation for career path / employment. At this point, if there is a genetic guideline, covering the important components mentioned above, for freshmen students when they enter colleges, that will be a very instrumental assistance for those new comers. Furthermore, if those services can be tailor made, that will be even more helpful to those college students. Colleges and universities do provide some general services around career planning, guiding on job hunting and even various internship, employment opportunities, especially for junior and senior students. However, systematic and professional services on individual basis are not seen in the market or in practices.

The professional counseling services as a package could be consisted of few valuable components. First modular will be Evaluation / Assessment / Planning. In this part, student will be evaluated in terms of academics, talents, personal qualities, interest, and career aspiration and so on. An individual based planning on college / graduate education and career development will be generated by experienced professional consultants. The second modular will be Assistance on Academics / Research / Investigation / Internship / Working at college or in the industries, which includes the further guiding and implementing the plan of the first modular. In executing process, there should be some resources provided for the realization of those plans. The third modular will be Assistance on Preparation for Graduate School Application or Job Hunting. For school placement services, even it is about graduate schools, they are quite matured in the market. But we discussed here is a kind of much individual based guidance for the whole process of application. For instance, the professional services on graduate school application could offer unique links between the students and their targeted schools’ faculties / professors previous formal application process. Assistance on job hunting will be a highly customized services and is normally could not be guaranteed for success given its difficult level and various uncertainties.

Theoretically, the professional counseling services as defined above is definitely a great thing worth a trial, because it will bring benefit to those college students, who have opportunity to enjoy the services, in their college education period and beyond. For those who want to seriously provide this type of services, it is a very tough call. It takes time and various resources to build up the whole package with high quality. Given it is character of individuality, this professional services are especially difficult. Nevertheless, it is a career doable for those professionals dedicated on education.

面试是申请美国大学非常重要的一个环节.对申请美国大学的高中生来说,现在是为面试作点准备的时候.为此,我们专业的面试官提供了一些有帮助的建议供大家参考:

1. 首先,你要清楚你要向面试官传递什么信息,你是什么样的学生,什么样的人.搞清楚这点后,你在回答每个问题时,可以以这些要点为主线,就你的性格,你的过去以及未来来展开你的陈述.

2. 面试时放松自然地回答问题很好,但还不够.如果你想要给面试官留下好的印象并对你的申请产生正面的影响,对有难度的问题作好准备还是很有必要的.

3. `有一些面试中常问到的问题,如”为什么申请我们学校/项目?”, “你在高中的学业兴趣是什么?在大学想学什么?”比如约翰对数学和历史感兴趣,尝试分享喜欢这两门学科背后的原因以及为什么喜欢数学,同时又喜欢历史,这两者之间的关联等.

4. 你是什么类型的人?有什么样的个性?当你说你有热情,你应该举一些例子,讲讲你以前做过的,富有激情的事.如果你是风趣,幽默地人,你会自然地在与面试官的交谈中表现出来,用不着直白的告诉她,或他,你很风趣,幽默,而也许她并不觉得你有这些特点.

5. 把面试官当作你的朋友,使得你的面试成为一次有趣的交谈, 给面试官留下深刻印象.

6. 如果你在回答问题时卡住了,不知如何回答.不要急于讲一些不着边的话,不妨停顿,思考一下,再做答

. 7. 对你申请的学校,你要准备几个有分量的问题.比如经常用到的,”贵校与其他优秀的学校相比,有什么不一样的地方和特点?”

8. 同时,你能给学校带来什么价值也是很重要的你应该准备的内容.比如说,你和一般的中国学生不一样,只关心分数.你能更好融入美国文化,交更多的美国朋友,与同学开玩笑,打成一片等.这样,你使得你成为一个中国学生的代表,甚至可以帮助其他中国学生更好地适应环境.

9. 你在大学的计划是什么?你的优点缺点是什么?你成功和失败的经历?等都是会经常问到的问题,你应该认真准备如何回答.

10. 着装,穿一件外套应该就可以了.当然,穿的正式不会有负面影响,至少表示你对面试的重视.

做好准备,放松,去享受一次与一个新朋友,或未来校友,的交谈.

Interview is an especially important process for college application. This is the season for some high school students in USA and China to prepare for their interview. To help those students for their preparation, our advisers have shared some of their comments and guidelines in the following:

1. At top of everything, you should be clear about what messages about who you are, what type of student and person, you want to tell the interviewer; With this idea in mind, you should address each question in terms of your traits, history, interest, etc. consistent with this point.

2. To be natural in responding interview questions is good, but to be better prepared with some difficult questions is necessary if you wish your interview report to be impressive and supportive to your application.

3. There are couple of typical interview questions such as "Why this school / program?", "What are your academic interest at high school in related to what you want to study at college?". For instance, if John is interested on Math and History, try to elaborate the motivation behind and rational between interest on Math and History.

4. What type of person are you? Your personalities? When telling people you are passionate, you should show something you have done with great enthusiasm. If you are a funny or humorous person, you can naturally present that character to interviewer during the conversation without telling him or her plainly. Try share more concrete and specific stories, and details of your experiences, instead of generic description about who you are.

5. Treat the interviewer as a friend of you, making the interview an interesting and funny conversation. That will be more impressive for the interviewer to remember you.

6. In case you have difficulty to answer a question, it is okay to take a pause and give a thought about the question before you figure out what to say, instead of just responding some irrelevant issues without thinking.

7. You should prepare some good questions in your hands about the school you are applying. A typical question you can ask is "In what ways does this school differ from other good schools?"

8. Meanwhile, your contribution to the school community is very important area you need to address. For instance, you are not typical Chinese students who care only their grades. You are more adapted to the US culture, making more American friends than normal Chinese students, making jokes with classmates etc. Those will help you to position yourself as an exemplary Chinese student and you can share and help other Chinese students to adopt the environment better.

9. Your plan at colleges? Your strength and weakness? Your success and failure? those are normal questions may asked during an interview. You need think about how to address them.

10. Dressing code, dress in a suit could be okay. It never hurts when you dress up and show your seriousness about the interview.

Be well prepared, relax and enjoy talking with a new friend / potential alumni!

莉莎是北京一所重点高中的高二学生。她很聪明，一年前中考时她以高分考进这所名校。当时她踌躇满志，憧憬着考进清华北大等知名学府。但一年后，事与愿违。她的在校成绩很挣扎。她该怎么办？是继续搏高考还是改玄易撤搞出国？

“是该决定的时候了！”， 她对自己。.莉莎从小在父母和姥姥、姥爷的呵护下长大，什么事情都给她安排好。长这么大，这还是头一回她自己琢磨自己的大事，还要拿主意。从前，她只负责上学学习，回家，做功课，参加考试拿成绩单。看看在班上和年级排老几，这就是她的生活。

家里也曾经考虑过是否要送她出国念书，还特意安排她和一些同学参加了2012年的美国夏令营，使她对国外的学习生活有亲身体验。家长很民主，让她自己拿主意。可莉莎当时对去美国念书没多少兴趣，虽然她在夏令营期间参观了不少美国高中和名牌大学，还观光了洛杉矶,纽约等大都市。过去一年在北京这所名牌高中的学习，让莉莎倍感压力。她清楚地意识到，如果她继续走高考这条路，前景不容乐观。和其他许多北京的高中生一样，她自然想到了出国念书。莉莎终于下定了决心准备去美国念大学。很快,她说服了父母，开始了全新的征程。

从专业的角度来看，莉莎的决策点选择的还不算晚，她还有一年多一点的时间去准备美国大学申请。按照她的基础来看,上一个不错的美国大学应该问题不大。可是还有很多与莉莎境况类似的学生没有及时作出选择，他们还是自觉不自觉地耗在高考这条道上，直到最后高考张榜看到令人失望的结果，家长们才不得不匆忙地去找中介, 也不管上什么学校，把孩子送出去念书算是万事大吉。这通常开启孩子一段国外学习的不愉快经历。总体而言,这是个悲剧。

Lisa Wu is a girl of grade 11 student in a magnate high school in Beijing. She was a smart student with very competitive scores when entering this famous school a year ago. At that time she was ambitious and dreamed of studying in the most famous higher schools like Beijing University or Tsinghua University. Unfortunately, one year later, she found out that the picture she had drawn is becoming apparently impractical because she is now struggling with her grades at school. What could she do? Continue with the existing track of GaoKao or changing her mind and trying another path, going abroad?

“It is time to make up my mind”, she said to herself. Never before, had she thought about the decision making issue, as she grew up in a lovely family with both her parents and her grand parents together and everything has been set up well for her. What she needs to care is just go to school, taking lessons, and come back home, doing home work and assignment. In the middle term or at the end of semester, she ought to get back some decent scores and a good ranking in the class. Basically, that is her life.

The family had been thinking about the plan of studying outside of China a year before. However, the parents are very democratic on decision making, leaving her to decide where she wants to study after high school. To get some firsthand experiences, last summer in 2012, they arranged a trip for Lisa, travelling with some other students in USA and took summer camp in some schools and visited few big cities, like LA, NYC etc. But, Lisa had no strong intention after the tour. After one year study at one of the best high schools in Beijing, Lisa felt great pressure ahead of her if she wants to continue to take GaoKao in less than two years. She can forecast the result which will be not very satisfied from whatever standards. Naturally, as many other Chinese high school students from Beijing did, Lisa finally made up her mind to change her track from GaoKao to studying abroad in USA for college education. Quickly, she talked her parents in and they embarked on the new venture of college application to USA.

Reflecting from professional point of view, Lisa has around one year for her preparation which is acceptable time fame given her background as top tire high school student. Unfortunately, there are many students like Lisa who are not making the tough call now and are still dragging in the GaoKao track. Eventually, they will end up with disappointed result. Until then, students and parents will rush to the agent services for the purpose of just sending their children abroad for whatever reasons and to whatever schools. That is normally the starting point of an unsatisfactory journey for those young people. It is a tragedy as a whole.