看的gratcafe上的一个帖子，深深感觉到personal history statement 不该哭穷

如题...thegradcafe上一个帖子说自己只有钱申一个学校：

I live on disability, and only had the money to apply to one program for Fall 2015.

I recently got a credit card.  Yay!  I had been using my bank card.

This was kind of a big deal because of my limited income and bankrupcy in 2010.

If I don't get into the only program I've applied to, next application season (Fall 2016) I'll use my new credit card to apply to more than one program.

太惨了...然后，下面一堆有similar situation的人来回，比如，高中读完赚了钱来申请，但是没钱考sub的：

Similar situation here. I've spent most of the money I saved just working the first few years out of high school (+ have now hit a limit on my credit card) while completing my undergrad. I didn't take the subject GRE test because I couldn't afford it so I wasn't able to apply to any schools that required the subject test. Luckily I've been granted fee waivers at most places I applied. I ended up asking my parents to loan me money for one application (ugh, embarrassing when you're in your late 20s...) which luckily they had no problem with. I'm kind of terrified of not getting in anywhere this year because I'm not sure I can afford another application cycle unless I score an awesome job after graduation. I guess only time will tell.


正如所有前辈所言，千万不要在personal history statement里哭穷，吃不饱饭还追求学术的人一抓一大把

原帖在此：
http://forum.thegradcafe.com/top ... eggs-in-one-basket/

wutongxiyu 发表于 2015-1-14 18:57
据说写personal history statement是需要哭穷的和经历过什么悲惨的经历，学校才愿意给你机会。只是听说的。

当然应该突出自己的diversity，但是如果其实不是很苦，又讲自己苦什么的，这种会有无病呻吟之感，比如什么我大学有一年断了手臂还努力学习什么的，这种只会换回一句so what，好像不如把重心转向“我个人哪些独特经历促成了我现在的选择”这一类来的合适

Hillary711 发表于 2015-1-15 23:36
我看过一篇PS，也是在说自己多么不容易，高中毕业后赚钱上大学，之后怎么怎么样的，好像也没什么不好，那人 ...

唔，我揣测，如果硬条件都好，那sop还可能扫一眼，ps应该基本不看

tinstria 发表于 2015-1-14 21:44
gratcafe有些帖子还挺好玩儿的，看过一些waiting it out里面的帖子……吐槽学校发来的邮件的那些，真的挺安 ...

哎，这种状况要持续到4月呢...还是转移一下注意力比较好~

有志者事竟成！努力吧！

大多数人搞学术还不是为了混饭吃

据说写personal history statement是需要哭穷的和经历过什么悲惨的经历，学校才愿意给你机会。只是听说的。

一看这哥们标题 All my eggs in one basket  有点哭笑不得...  佩服他还有决心去念 PHD

cljmyth 发表于 2015-1-14 18:11
大多数人搞学术还不是为了混饭吃

我总觉得这种在中国人里是普遍现象，但是吃不饱饭还要学humanity之类的专业的外国人们可能不会那么功利

國際學生本來就哭窮都不會有人信，也不會有人管，他們會覺得哭窮就老老實實待在自己home country唄

gratcafe有些帖子还挺好玩儿的，看过一些waiting it out里面的帖子……吐槽学校发来的邮件的那些，真的挺安慰~很消磨时间，平复心情