成功案例瓦萨学院

基本信息托福: 111
SAT: 2230(数学: 770, 阅读: 730, 写作: 730)个人爱好: 影视、平面设计、羽毛球首选: 瓦萨学院
次选: 高露洁大学 
TOEFL: 111
SAT: 2230 (M: 770, CR: 730, W: 730)Hobbies: Movies, Graphic Design, BadmintonResult: Vassar CollegeRunner-Up: Colgate UniversityDale's Story中焦虑几乎陪伴我走过了整个申请季。在上外附中，同伴压力已经成为了日常生活的一部分：在我还在准备学校里的期中考试时，我的同学已经开始在各种教i育机构接受SAT、托福的考试培训；而当我刚刚考完托福，我身边的朋友却开始申请各大北美高校的暑期项目；甚者，当我还在布朗大学顶着灼人的阳光在校园里奔波于教学楼间时，我已经有同学完成了个人陈述的写作……无论我怎么做，似乎总是比别人晚了一步。然而我并没有在申请季崩溃——因为有Jeremy。
我于2014年10月结识了Jeremy Goren。这位操一口流利中文，却长着异域面孔的高大外国人与我之前结识的许多从事中介行业的人完全不同——我记得他当时穿着帽衫（似乎是哥伦比亚大学的？），站在他办公室门外等待我和我母亲两人。小巧的办公间没有大中介那样阔气，却显得温馨舒服。刚坐下，他没有直接劈头盖脸地审问我的课内成绩、SAT成绩、托福成绩、课外活动等公式化的问题，而是问我为什么想要出国留学、喜欢什么专业。不到一个小时的谈话后，我在车上和我的父母说——我相信Jeremy能帮我做好留学准备工作。
Jeremy总是不紧不慢——这和我的时常发作的焦虑形成了鲜明的对比。他总能掌控好所有的时间截点，并留下充裕的时间给我准备材料。个人陈述、补充文书、申请递交……每一步他总是能走得很稳。多亏了Jeremy，我才能在申请季做好每一项工作，在上百个Word和PDF文档和无数网页中理出头绪，保持冷静。
Jeremy的文书团队极为优秀。这里我不得不提起Adam。多年以来，我一直以为我的英语写作已经处于了顶尖——至少是优秀——水平，但Adam的一封封邮件和一条条批注把我从白日梦里拉回现实。滥用比喻、编造事实、无实际意义的主题升华充斥着我的个人陈述。在Adam的耐心指导和毫不犹豫的批评下，这篇文章，虽然我改了至少二十稿，是我在申请季写出的最好文书了。靠着这篇个人陈述，我被凯斯西储大学和高露洁大学录取了（这两所学校都不需要补充文书，只需提交个人陈述）。说实话，我收到录取通知时非常惊讶——但仔细想想，也是意料之中。
除此以外，ECL给我带来的还有很多——KFC讲座（Natasha的课程十分有趣）、SAT美国历史的考前培训（Jeremy的父亲Michael是一位很博学的人）、申请季后的大学选择、进入瓦萨学院后的人脉建立……我衷心感谢ECL的每一个人在申请季对我的帮助，没有他们，我不会有今天的成就。英Anxiety accompanied me throughout the whole application season. At Shanghai Foreign Language School, peer pressure is part of my daily life: when I was busy preparing for the midterm exam at school, some of my classmates had already started taking SAT classes at educational institutions during the week. The moment I walked out of my TOEFL test center, I got the news that some of my friends were applying for summer programs at universities in the US. Even worse, when I was still rushing between classrooms at Brown University for its summer program under the scorching sun, some of my peers had already completed their Personal Statements. No matter what I did, it seemed that I was behind at every step. Despite all of this pressure, I did not snap during the application season—because of Jeremy.
I met Jeremy Goren in October 2014. This towering man with a foreign face, who, incredibly, could speak extremely fluent Chinese, was utterly different from many of the other study-abroad agents. He was in a hoodie (with a Columbia University logo), as I can recall, standing at his office door waiting for my mother and me. The conference room was only the size of half of my bedroom and was certainly not as lavish as many agencies I had been to before, but it was cozy. Sitting down, I was not immediately interrogated about my GPA, SAT scores, TOEFL scores, and extracurricular activities. Instead, he asked me why I wanted to study abroad and what major I would like to study in university. After a conversation no longer than an hour, I told my parents with confidence in our car—yes, I believe that Jeremy is capable of helping me ace my application.
Jeremy is never in a rush—this attitude is the complete opposite of my occasional panic attack. He is in total control of each and every deadline, always leaving me enough time to prepare all of my materials. Between the personal statement, the supplementary essays, and the application submission, he takes each step nice and steady. If not for Jeremy, I would not have completed my work with excellence and I would have gotten lost in the hundreds of Word and PDF documents and webpages.
Jeremy has a great team of essay instructors. It is impossible not to mention Adam here. For many years I was confident that my English writing was at its peak—or at least, very good, but Adam’s emails and comments pulled me back to reality from my daydreaming. I learned that my personal statement was riddled with a plethora of metaphors, made-up facts and sublimation of words without true meanings. However, this essay turned out to be the best essay I had produced during the application season because of Adam’s patient instruction and criticism without hesitation. With my personal statement alone, I was accepted to Case Western and Colgate (these two schools have no supplementary essay requirements). Honestly speaking, I was astonished when I heard the news—but after thinking about it, they were within expectation based on my application.
ECL has given me even more in addition to what I mentioned above—KFC classes (Natasha gives amazingly interesting lectures), SAT U.S. History class (Michael, Jeremy’s father, is a truly learned man), the post-application-season college selection counseling, and the Vassar alumna whom Jeremy introduced me to. I am deeply grateful for the help from each employee at ECL. Without them, I would not have achieved what I have today.