[求助]关于Harvard的第一篇essay

tuxiaoyang

1、What would you like the MBA Admissions Board to know about your undergraduate academic experience? (400-word limit)

大家说说看这里这个academic是严格的指学业上的事情（于是不包括extracurricular）呢，还是泛指本科的经验（于是几乎凡是在大学校园里发生的事情都包括）？

我问了一个美国人他说应该是偏重学业上的。我的问题在于学业上似乎乏善可陈（GPA低的不象话），专业又是Electrical Engineering，我真不知道该如何表现自己。

非常非常希望听听大家的意见！谢谢先！

IDAISY

you can search ask linda thread on bw forum, linda emailed hbs adcom to clarify this issue, the adcom replied that you should talk about your academic experience. to my understanding, extracurricular are not academic experience?

jetrong

我查了一下韦氏字典academic是这样解的：

1。a: of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher   learning

   b : of or relating to performance in academic courses *academic excellence*  

   c : very learned but inexperienced in practical matters *academic thinkers*  

   d : based on formal study especially at an institution of higher learning
2 : of or relating to literary or artistic rather than technical or professional studies

3 a : THEORETICAL, SPECULATIVE *an academic question*  

  b : having no practical or useful significance
4 : conforming to the traditions or rules of a school (as of literature or art) or an  official academy

我觉得是讲学业相关的，不一定要指学业本身！在学业中你是如何表现出你的学习潜能，你是如何与同学合作解决问题及你是如何表现的，展示出你未来leadership潜质的！

tuxiaoyang

多谢二位指点，我大概有些概念了。