杉山:personal statement有没有固定模式的？如果可以的话，希望能有范文可供参考，谢谢！

没有固定模式，一般都是选择重点介绍你自己对于学术方面的热情，有些事例最好，不要流水账，否则没看头。

下面是我写过的PS。

The story doesn’t begin with “once upon a time”.

It was only recently that I realized what my “real” career would be. I have dreamed of becoming a scientist, a teacher, an ice cream vendor, and all sorts of different people when I was a kid. However, I knew these dreams would not become true the day I was determined to become an entrepreneur.

Yes, an entrepreneur, maybe not so big and established, but small and successful. And why I wanted to be an entrepreneur?

I have been holding part-time media jobs since I was in high school in China. This media experience takes me to the world that is called “business”. Being a part-time journalist for the Beijing Youth Daily and the Middle School Times in China and a part-time special New York correspondent for the Global Times (a newspaper in China), I have interviewed some entrepreneurs. Every successful entrepreneur has a million stories to tell. Every story of success demonstrates an entrepreneur’s in-depth knowledge in business, quick response to the ever-changing marketplace, and confidence in his/her own ability to succeed. It was simply fascinating to just hear these stories.

However, besides writing down these entrepreneurs’ success, I kept asking myself one question: can I become one of them? This one little question has awakened the “business” side of myself.

Running a business is not easy. What’s the first thing? You have to know what you are going to run. Living in New York, I have had quite a few inspirations by observing this world’s financial and business center. I often said to myself, “oh, this thing’s gonna be a hit if I can bring it to the public,” or, “this service’s so cool, and the best part is that no one has even thought about it!” These daydreams were soon hit by the reality: how can I manage to present something to the public?

That was why I chose marketing as my undergraduate major. I believe that marketing, more than accounting and management, is something that you need to be trained with. Accounting folks are almost always good at math, and management people almost always have ambition and leadership in their hearts. As for marketing, you may be creative, but creativity may be largely found in only one part of marketing that is called “advertising and promotion”. There are a lot more to learn. As a marketing major, I was exposed to the internationally accepted marketing concepts, such as the four P’s (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion), as well as the American way of doing marketing, such as strict rules on bribery when it comes to promotion and other business activities.

However, besides marketing classes, other business classes are just as important as marketing courses. The functional areas of business are integrated. And I know a successful businessperson may be specialized in one of these areas, but he/she will also know about how other areas are functioned. So I took some accounting, finance, and management classes to build myself as a businessperson, but not only a marketer.

My undergraduate marketing classes went so smoothly that I began to think maybe I would become a good entrepreneur after I graduate with my Bachelor of Science in Marketing. Well, I was partially wrong. Right now I am taking the undergraduate capstone class and having a team of three people to run a business in a simulated game. I can read the financial reports, calculate ratios, and utilize the results in the decision-making and management of the business. However, when it comes to more complicated management problems, the answer is nowhere to be found. This makes me think about the real world. In the real, fast-paced business environment, not knowing an answer to a management problem should be a businessperson’s shame. That should never be the case.

Then I put in some serious thoughts into my pursuit of career goal. I don’t want to become just a marketer. I want to become an entrepreneur. And a successful entrepreneur needs to know everything of all the functional areas of business from an international perspective. Of course books and real-life experience may help me to succeed, but I don’t believe these can show me a prosperous business as fast as does learning on campus. Systematical learning in business administration will help me make better decisions later in my career. So an MBA is a must on my way to success.

Now the story of me becoming an entrepreneur doesn’t end here because I know that after getting my Master’s degree in business administration, I will be ready.

看去哪个国家，一般的陈述式是有格式的。先说自己的学术经历，比如为什么喜欢要申请的课，受了什么激发，现在在学习的科目之类的。然后说自己为什么适合这个学校和这门课。最后说个人情况，比如兴趣爱好，工作经历（如果跟申请有关的最好写到前面），其他的长处之类的。重点是不要罗列材料上已经有的东西，要突出自己的特性。

美国的话，有些会要求essay式的，像是叙事的格式，讲一个亲身经历的故事，来体现出自己的特点。这个没什么格式，尽量写的特别，但是又是亲身经历的就好。

看去哪个国家，一般的陈述式是有格式的。先说自己的学术经历，比如为什么喜欢要申请的课，受了什么激发，现在在学习的科目之类的。然后说自己为什么适合这个学校和这门课。最后说个人情况，比如兴趣爱好，工作经历（如果跟申请有关的最好写到前面），其他的长处之类的。重点是不要罗列材料上已经有的东西，要突出自己的特性。

美国的话，有些会要求essay式的，像是叙事的格式，讲一个亲身经历的故事，来体现出自己的特点。这个没什么格式，尽量写的特别，但是又是亲身经历的就好。