(Dreamwriter留学文书)美国申请命题作文Pepperdine Essay 5

5. (Optional) Provide additional information you feel necessary, regarding academic and test performance or work experience.

Since my infancy, I have been told this saying: “all’s well that ends well.” I used to hold this saying firmly and implement it in practice by achieving good academic results. However, as I grew up, I found myself not completely nodding in agreement with these words. It seems to me that what counts most is not the results, but the process. So when I present my application for your program with a relatively low GPA of 3.02, I do not feel discouraged but fill myself with sheer confidence in securing an offer from your program, because I believe I am fully qualified and prepared over these years of study and practice at college. Here, I would like to cite some reasons why my GPA is not that high and share with you something valuable I gained from the process.

Dating back to my high school, I was then a registered student in Taiyuan Foreign Language School, one that is qualified for recommending students for getting admission offer without taking the College Entrance Examination. Thanks to my outstanding academic performance in high school, I was put on the recommendation list. After passing the written test and interview undertaken by Nanjing University of Science and Technology, I secured the admission offer. However, according to the regulations and policies of Chinese Ministry of Education, students from foreign language schools could only sign up for English major for their undergraduate study and are not allowed to transfer to another major. Under this circumstance, I became a student of Business English at NUST.

Majoring in English, I felt out of place because my real interest is on finance and business. Therefore, my GPA lagged behind some top students in my class. Besides, my ankle injury from practice in free combat made me stay at home for two months, greatly affecting my GPA. I was disappointed at first, but later cheered myself up to catch up with my fellow students. Thanks to my efforts, I was able to stand out above most of my classmates in academic study. As you review my academic transcript, you might find that I did quite poor in French. Being a business-oriented person with a lack of romantic cells, French vocabulary just slipped my mind when it was input, resulting in my poor grade in the examination. This also greatly influenced my GPA.

However, a moderate GPA does not necessarily mean that I am not competent in English, as evidence can be found in my good score in GMAT (730) and TOEFL (113). What is worth mentioning is that I gained full mark in the component of writing in TOEFL. These scores, to most of my classmates, are quite hard to obtain. I am a person who highlights practicality in language use. Instead of indulging myself in poems or literatures, I endeavored to apply what I learned into practice. As a backbone of the Campus Debate Association, I got the second prize in the debating competition organized by NUST. My fluent oral English, eloquence and outstanding logical thinking won many complimentary words from both teachers and students. I enjoyed the process of applying my English skills into practice, instead of the good scores I obtained from English courses.

Besides, my college time was also occupied by active and regular participation in extra-curricular activities and my exploration into finance through reading many financial books, magazines and reports, which could in some degree occupy my time spent on major study, but I do believe that these activities make me who I am today, a person with good communicative, leadership, and organizational skills.

In the process of learning and practice, I felt a boost in my personal qualities, which I believe is much more important than simply a good GPA. GPA is a representation of the individual’s past, but personal qualities are what symbolize an individual’s future.