Students who want to study abroad should start to prepare early, because the preparation of study abroad will require GPA, IELTS, TOEFL and other scores. If you want to study abroad, you should prepare these things in advance, and choose schools and majors according to your own ability to ensure that you can successfully complete your study.
The following Xiaobian will take you to understand what you need to do to prepare for studying abroad.
1. Clarify your purpose of studying abroad. Think about why you want to go abroad.
Want to experience a foreign environment?
Want to emigrate?
Do you want to work and live abroad for a while?
Want a high school, undergraduate or master’s degree?
2. Clarify your career plan In fact, as long as you know the purpose of studying abroad, the career plan is basically determined, because the career plan is to help you achieve the purpose of studying abroad.
For example, say you want to work in finance abroad for a while and then come home.
Studying abroad is to realize your career plan, so after the career plan is clear, the major you want to choose is basically determined.
Working in finance for a period of time, for example, can basically help you intern in finance, financial engineering, economics, accounting, statistical mathematics, and so on.
Make a list of these, see which majors you like best, how these majors can get into finance, which majors are more in line with your career plan and easier to achieve your career plan, and then decide on a major.
4. Determine the country you want to go to Once you have a major, you need to know what the application requirements are in each country and which country is best for you.
Let’s take a look at the costs, application conditions (hardware conditions and soft background) for each country.
After comprehensive consideration, determine the country.
5. Determine your study preparation time Plan It is also mentioned to know the requirements of the major you want to apply to in the country, the cost, the hardware (GPA, TOEFL/IELTS, GRE/GMAT), the soft background (internship, research, competition), etc. Know these, and then list when to prepare these requirements based on your current situation.
6. Prepare well according to your study abroad preparation schedule. Preparing for study abroad is the key part of the study abroad process that lasts the longest and directly affects the outcome of your final application.
There will certainly be a lot of problems, such as tight time, unreasonable time arrangement, such as failing to get scores and low grades.
I want you to drop your distractions and get ready.
7, according to your hardware and software background reasonable school selection is also the most vexing problem for many students, many do not know how to choose a school reasonably.
Once the school choice is not good, it is likely to waste their grades, apply to the school is not ideal, or even work hard to prepare for several years, but did not go to school, so it is really important to choose the school.
The most important thing to choose a school is to analyze their own advantages and disadvantages, fully understand the characteristics of each school and the previous admission data, reasonable use of sprint, moderate, ensure the three levels of reasonable school selection.
There is a lot of work here, such as registering the online application account, filling out the online application, viewing the title of the document, writing the document, changing the document, getting the recommendation letter, submitting the online application, interviewing, checking the admission progress, determining the school, paying the deposit and so on.
9. The later work mainly includes visa, vaccination, air ticket booking, airport pick-up and accommodation, etc.
The most important thing at this time is to apply for a visa.
As long as the visa can be issued smoothly, there is basically no problem.
1, documents to study abroad need to take the documents: passport and a copy, can print a few more, ID card can not take.
Notarial certificate (including graduation certificate and degree certificate), language transcript, school admission notice, tuition remittance certificate.
Visa, electronic visa print.
Ticket confirmation sheet and hotel confirmation sheet can be printed for an extra copy.
Driver’s license translator. Students who have a driver’s license can bring a driver’s license.
All of the above materials are important and can be carried with you, not in your checked suitcase.
2, daily necessities clothes: including according to the local season, in the cold winter to prepare some cold equipment, such as scarves, gloves, sweaters, thick coats, snow boots, etc., but winter indoor heating, can not take a lot, these thick clothes also account for luggage.
In hot summer, wear short sleeves, shorts, slippers, etc. It rains a lot in some countries, you can wear a few waterproof coats.
You may want to change your style after seeing other students’ clothes abroad, so you don’t need to bring too many clothes and buy them abroad.
Electrical appliances: hair dryer, mobile phone, camera, etc.
In addition, you need to bring a plug.
Some outlets abroad are three-hole, two-hole chargers can not be charged directly.
Stationery: You don’t need to bring a lot of stationery, you can bring a USB drive, electronic dictionary, Chinese professional books, study materials, neutral pens, notebooks, computers, etc.
About books, no matter what your major is, the reference for personal use is that you’d better carry it, it’s very troublesome to buy it abroad, the cost of books is very expensive, some books will be used in the first semester, you can carry it with you, the price of books in China is cheaper than abroad.
Cash: It’s not recommended that you take too much cash out of the country. The limit is $10,000 per trip.
You can take a small amount of cash.
When you need to pay rent or buy some daily necessities, you can use it abroad.
Medication: If you need to take medication on time, you need to prepare an adequate dose and bring the instruction manual.