Bài luận xin học bổng (Personal Statement) là một yếu tố cực kỳ quan trọng trong bộ hồ sơ xin học bổng đại học Mỹ cũng như các nước có nền giáo dục hàng đầu khác như Canada, Úc, Anh… Trong bài viết này, Anh Ngữ Du Học ETEST sẽ gửi đến bạn những bài luận xin học bổng du học hay và kinh nghiệm viết bài luận học bổng để giúp bạn đạt được kết quả tốt nhất.
Bài luận xin học bổng (Personal Statement) là một yếu tố cực kỳ quan trọng trong bộ hồ sơ xin học bổng đại học Mỹ cũng như các nước có nền giáo dục hàng đầu khác như Canada, Úc, Anh… Trong bài viết này, Anh Ngữ Du Học ETEST sẽ gửi đến bạn những bài luận xin học bổng du học hay và kinh nghiệm viết bài luận học bổng để giúp bạn đạt được kết quả tốt nhất.
Mặc dù việc xác định các tiêu chí của bài luận là cần thiết, nhưng việc nghiên cứu và phân tích độc giả cũng quan trọng không kém. Hội đồng tuyển sinh của trường chính là độc giả cần hướng đến. Các bài luận xin học bổng hay thường nêu rõ những yêu cầu của trường đưa ra từ đó, thể hiện cá tính riêng của họ trong khi vẫn đảm bảo phù hợp với chủ đề.
Một bản tuyên ngôn – còn được gọi là Slogan – là cần thiết khi viết một bài luận tiếng anh xin học bổng. Slogan cung cấp một bản tóm tắt nội dung của bài luận, đồng thời tiết lộ thái độ và tính cách của bạn. Cá tính của bạn càng mạnh mẽ và hấp dẫn thì tuyên bố đó càng sâu sắc và độc đáo. Đây là một thành phần cần thiết cho sự thành công của chính bạn.
Bài học thực tế của bản thân rất đắt giá và sâu sắc. Nó có thể đến từ trải nghiệm trong các hoạt động ngoại khóa, tương tác với những cá nhân có động lực, nghe những câu chuyện đặc biệt hay có được khi bạn làm việc trong các dự án, v.v. Bạn tìm ra được điểm mạnh và hạn chế của mình thông qua những trải nghiệm. Từ đó, chọn ra triết lý sống và định hướng phát triển để hoàn thiện bản thân mỗi ngày.
Sự phát triển đi lên chắc chắn sẽ kéo theo những rủi ro và thách thức. Giờ là lúc bạn đương đầu và vượt qua thử thách đó. Thể hiện khả năng suy nghĩ chín chắn và giải quyết vấn đề của chính bạn.
It is a cliché to say that I’ve always known what I want to do with my life, but in my case it happens to be true. When I first visited Sea World as a young child, I fell in love with marine animals in general. Specifically, I felt drawn to manatees. I was compelled by their placid and friendly nature. I knew then and there that I wanted to dedicate my life to protecting these beautiful creatures.
Since that day in Orlando, I have spent much of my spare time learning everything there is to know about manatees. As a junior high and high school student, I attempted to read scholarly articles on manatees from scientific journals. I annoyed my friends and family with scientific facts about manatees– such as that they are close relatives of elephants–at the dinner table. I watched documentaries, and even mapped their migration pattern on a wall map my sister gave me for my birthday.
When I was chosen from hundreds of applicants to take part in a summer internship with Sea World, I fell even more in love with these gentle giants. I also learned a very important and valuable lesson: prior to this internship, I had imagined becoming a marine biologist, working directly with the animals in their care both in captivity and in the wild. However, during the internship, I discovered that this is not where my strengths lie. Unfortunately, I am not a strong student in science or math, which are required skills to become a marine biologist. Although this was a disheartening realization, I found that I possess other strengths can still be of great value to manatees and other endangered marine mammals: my skills as a public relations manager and communicator. During the internship, I helped write new lessons and presentations for elementary school groups visiting the park and developed a series of fun activities for children to help them learn more about manatees as well as conservation of endangered species in general. I also worked directly with the park’s conservation and communication director, and helped develop a new local outreach program designed to educate Floridians on how to avoid hitting a manatee when boating. My supervisor recommended me to the Save the Manatee Foundation so in addition to my full-time internship at Sea World, I interned with the Save the Manatee Foundation part-time. It was there that I witnessed the manatee rescue and conservation effort first hand, and worked directly with the marine biologists in developing fund-raising and awareness-raising campaigns. I found that the foundation’s social media presence was lacking, and, using skills I learned from Sea World, I helped them raise over $5,000 through a Twitter challenge, which we linked to the various social media outlets of the World Wildlife Federation.
While I know that your organization typically awards scholarships to students planning to major in disciplines directly related to conservation such as environmental studies or zoology, I feel that the public relations side of conservation is just as important as the actual work done on the ground. Whether it is reducing one’s carbon footprint, or saving the manatees, these are efforts that, in order to be successful, must involve the larger public. In fact, the relative success of the environmental movement today is largely due to a massive global public relations campaign that turned environmentalism from something scientific and obscure into something that is both fashionable and accessible to just about anyone. However, that success is being challenged more than ever before–especially here in the US, where an equally strong anti-environmental public relations campaign has taken hold. Therefore, conservationists need to start getting more creative.
I want to be a part of this renewed effort and use my natural abilities as a communicator to push back against the rather formidable forces behind the anti-environmentalist movement. I sincerely hope you will consider supporting this non-traditional avenue towards global sustainability and conservation. I have already been accepted to one of the most prestigious communications undergraduate programs in the country and I plan to minor in environmental studies. In addition, I maintain a relationship with my former supervisors at Save the Manatee and Sea World, who will be invaluable resources for finding employment upon graduation. I thank the committee for thinking outside the box in considering my application.
Từ xưa đến nay, có rất nhiều bạn sử dụng câu chuyện thời thơ ấu để viện dẫn vào bài luận của mình. Chính những câu chuyện ấy khiến bạn trở nên kém chuyên nghiệp, chưa đủ trưởng thành và chưa đủ để họ tin tưởng. Sự bắt đầu sai lầm ấy khiến hội đồng cảm thấy nhàm chán, không hứng thú với bài luận văn xin học bổng của bạn
Nhiều bạn đã tham khảo sử dụng câu chuyện thời thơ ấu trong các bài luận của mình như một mở bài. Vì những câu chuyện này, bạn trở nên kém chuyên nghiệp, thiếu năng lực và đáng tin cậy hơn trong mắt họ. Hội đồng sẽ cảm thấy nhàm chán với các bài luận xin học bổng với mô típ như vậy
I am Hendy XXXX applying to your Master in Integrated Immunology starting in October 2013. I have an excellent medical education and an extensive training in cancer research. My aim is to gain comprehensive and in-depth training in fundamental and clinical immunology from world’s leading immunologists at the University of Oxford as well as to have hands-on experience on research in cancer immunotherapy. This education will enable me to work innovatively on research in cancer immunotherapy for my doctoral. Therefore, this Master’s programme is an important step for my ambition to be an excellent scientist and entrepreneur in cancer immunotherapy.
Dedicated to relieve people’s sufferings, I was enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia (FMUI). The curriculum was competence-based and student-centered with problem-based learning modules. I graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences cum laude, top 5% with G.P.A. of 3.89/4.0. Then, I continued my education in the same faculty and gained a Medical Doctor degree. My first exposure to immunology was when I competed in the Indonesian Biology Olympiad where I won a silver medal. Moreover, I became interested in immunology when I took a pre-clinic module on Infection and Immunology where I scored A. I learned that the immune system was determinant for people’s health and there were more to discover in this field. Reflecting my interest in immunology, I took part in an international clinical immunology symposium 2007.
I was an active member of Student’s Scientific and Research Organization (SSRO) of FMUI, winning some of national-wide scientific competitions. I also published my works in two Indonesian medical journals. Due to these achievements, I was awarded as the most accomplished member of SSRO in 2009 and was awarded by the University of Indonesia.
Besides scientific affairs, I was an active member of International Federation of Medical Student’s Association organizing international students’ exchange, an Asian-wide conference and some national-wide medical student’s competitions. Moreover, I was involved in some charity programs both as organizer and medical volunteer. I was also a choirboy and soloist in the Church choir and became a tutor of advanced biology for the high school Biology Olympiad Team. My leadership potential, social devotion and academic excellence were awarded a Goldman Sachs’ Global Leader award 2007 by the Goldman Sachs’ Foundation and International Education Foundation-New York.
During my clinical rotation, I witnessed that cancer caused great sufferings to the patients and their family. Furthermore, this experience became even more personal when my beloved grandmother passed away due to liver cancer. These experiences made me determined to be in the league to fight cancer through my talent: scientific research.
With this spirit and academic excellence, I won a prestigious Utrecht Excellence Scholarship to take a research-based Prestige Master’s program in Cancer Genomics and Developmental Biology at Utrecht University. Besides taking nine advanced courses in cancer, genomics, proteomics, and developmental biology, I took three internships which accounted for a total of 17 months of laboratory work. These internships covered the fields of protein signaling pathway, gene expression, and biophysics. I got A, top 5% student with publishable results from all the research projects, demonstrating my ambition, capability in doing cutting edge research and eagerness to learn. I graduated with a maximum G.P.A. of 4.00.
In the Master’s study, I learned that cancer interacts with immune system intricately. On the one hand, inflammation promotes oncogenesis; on the other hand, immune system provides barriers to malignancy. Unfortunately, cancer cell can evade immunosurveillance in many ways. To study the intricate crosstalks between cancer and immune system will be beneficial in empowering immune system to fight back against cancer. Believing in the promise of cancer immunotherapy, I have established my scientific vision: “to engineer immune system to combat cancer”. This vision is a marriage of my interests in cancer, immunology, and technology.
To start realizing my scientific vision, I wrote my thesis about methods to target dendritic cells in vivo for cancer immunotherapy. In addition, I was selected to undertake a two month internship project on immunological tolerance at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg where I learned immunology-related techniques. In January 2013, I will work on a project in viral vector as a DNA delivery system for vaccination at Leiden University Medical Center.
To fulfill my vision, I feel the need to have a comprehensive and in-depth training in fundamental and clinical immunology. This will enable me to work innovatively in the field of cancer immunotherapy. I find that the Master in Integrated Immunology at the University of Oxford fits my ambition. Oxford University is a world leading institution in immunology. By maintaining excellence for almost a millennium, Oxford University has shaped the world as it is today and keeps on innovating for the betterment of humankind. To get a transformative education from this prestigious university will be an honor to me. Not only that I want to excel in the Master’s programme, but I also want to participate in college/university activities given my talent and interests in choral singing, nature, and humanity. Furthermore, the network which I will build with Oxford’s professors, fellow students, and college community will be beneficial for my future career.
Furthermore, some of the most respected experts in cancer immunotherapy like Professor XXXX and Professor XXXXX are affiliated with the university. I am eager to do my 3rd term project in one of their laboratories, and hopefully to do my doctoral thesis there as well. The Master’s programme will inspire me to fulfill my scientific vision.
Given my past history of commitment to excellence, I am confident that I will bring a high level of energy and enthusiasm to your programme. In addition, my international background and multidisciplinary education will add more diversity to your program. My ambition, openness, educational background, talents, and clear vision will be keys for the success of me completing this programme.
Thank you for considering my application, and I look forward to your acceptance.