application experience for HK and Singapore colleges

gelipeng1985 · 发表于 2011-3-20 13:25:12

Though I know most of people are more interested in PhD programs in US and Canada, still I hope to write down something that I've experienced when I applied for the Hong Kong and Singapore colleges in the past few months. Hopefully my English will not make you confused. If so, you can also leave your messages to me.

First of all, I'd like to say that applicants' past research experience, or to be more explicit, past publications might not matter as much as people think when applying for PhD programs in Hong Kong and Singapore. However, in such cases, to ensure success, you'd better to find one or more faculty members from colleges at HK to write strong recommendations for you. My personally experience is to come to Hong Kong and work as a research assistant. (If you could find other ways to get familiar with faculties from university at Hong Kong, then do it. The bottom line is that, at the end, you need and are able to get their recommendation letters for you.) Actually my recommendation letter comes from an AP, but I still feel that it counts a lot when admission committee members consider me as a potential candidate for their program.

Second, I receive four interviews, respectly from HKU, CUHK, HKUST and NUS. For me, among those colleges, CUHK seems to have a more formal interview procedure. Professors at CUHK will have a list of standard questions and make notes when you answer their questions. Keep in mind that, to manage to survive from the competitions, you need to prepare well for those typical questions, such as why you come up with such research ideas, how you plan to proceed, what is your future plan (you dedication and aspiration). Pls be sure that, during the interview, you must show respect to their college and you choose their college because you sincerely want to study there rather than treat them as a backup school.

Finally, it would be better to send a thank you letter after your interview. Personally I think it is very polite and useful especially to those Chinese professors.

Wish everybody good luck!

lanmaidou · 发表于 2011-3-20 14:37:48

顶一下楼主！！

jingzhimeng · 发表于 2011-3-20 22:16:53

顶一下~

kuor0628 · 发表于 2011-3-20 23:27:53

写的很好啊

猪之哥 · 发表于 2011-3-21 09:07:13

顶师兄阿！

sudagrape · 发表于 2011-5-9 14:39:46

UP, Thanks a million!

missyousummer · 发表于 2011-5-11 18:57:54

恩，非常感谢学长。我很有可能申2012香港或新加坡的PHD。希望有机会能多多向你请教。
在这里，想请教一下：香港Management 的PHD看重实习经历吗？我今年暑假可能只有8月份可以安排出来实习，但是这样网申就很难了。所以就想到底是努力去找找实习还是在家学习，写下论文呢？

littlebitbird · 发表于 2011-5-12 18:58:04

赞楼主分享！想请问楼主，关于直接去hk做RA，这样的机会怎么发现呢？自己直接联系prof?? thanks~~

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