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个人陈述

我出生在中国的政治经济文化中心----北京，家庭的教育和周围的环境使我树立起了这样的人生观，价值观。我认为，一个人活着应当对社会有所贡献。父母和亲戚朋友在工作和事业上的成功体现了他们的精彩人生经历，我要做一个独立、自信和有所作为的人。

小学的六年时光，父母因为工作的原因，把我送到了北京市的重点寄宿学校学习，六年的时间锻炼了我独立生活的能力。进入中学再我的一再要求下，父母同意我每天骑自行车往返15公里独立上下学。从小学到大学，一直在重点班的我，比我的同龄人得到了更多的锻炼也学到了更多的东西。我身体素质优秀、思维敏捷、集体观念强。小学的时候进入校棒球队，教练发现了我的领导能力和技术，让我很快成为了队长，率队代表北京，去上海，香港等地参加比赛，并取得优异的成绩。90年代的香港，亚洲的经济中心，他的繁华和富有，让我第一次知道了财富的价值，也让我了解到了什么是金融，在香港的经历和所见所闻，对我影响很大——我立志要成为一名金融家。

上大学我报考的第一志愿第一专业是北京工商大学金融学院，没想到我被计算机学院录取了，为了实现我的金融梦想，我选修了第二专业---金融，系统的学习了金融专业知识。2012年我将完成全部学业，同时取得计算机和金融两个专业的毕业证书。

为了实现理想，在大学期间和同学创建了一个小公司，创建一份报纸，从内容的编排，报刊的发行，成本的控制，对市场的调查我都是亲力亲为，出色的协调能力，团队合作让我们的小公司在前期运转的很顺利，后来由于对公司运作和成本的问题，最终导致了失败。但是从中让我得到了更多的锻炼，也让我知道了自己的不足。我小的时候会把零用钱存入银行，让它产生利息，后来通过专业学习、看各种书籍了解到更多关于金融的东西，并渴望去尝试，但了解的越多越觉得自己的知识不够，一定要通过深造提高自己。我选择了到美国留学。

在美国众多的大学中，我选择了克拉克大学——美国最早的研究生院。在这里我不仅会学到优秀的学术课程还会学到很多先进的理念。我怀揣做金融家的梦想，希望贵校能提供一个给我一个机会，能够让我在贵校接受不一样的教育。
 
学员译文
 

I spent my primary school time at a boarding school. Thanks to this experience, I learned how to take care of myself.  I was a member of baseball team then. My youth leadership and baseball skills made me outstanding among others, and my coach gave me the title “team captain.”  That was why I could go to Shanghai and Hong Kong for matches on behalf of Beijing baseball teams. Hong Kong, as the Asian financial center in 1990s, made a big difference in me. It widened my horizon. I learned the values of fortune for the first time and what was finance. I made up my mind to be a financier.  I was not a day dreamer, I put it into practice. As a child, I began my dream with saving my pocket money in a bank and getting interests back. I learned how to manage my money. In addition, I read many books about finance.  Time passed quickly, I started my college life. I was not admitted to Institute of Finance of Beijing Technology and Business University, but School of Computer Science. This reality did not discourage me. I took finance as an elective course and learned more about it. I could not leave my dream behind, I must do something for it. I co-founded a small company with my classmates.  I trusted in hands-on approaches and did a good job in coordination. Working together made our operations go smoothly at the beginning, but the company ended with failure due to wrong performances and capital shortage. I saw this result from a positive way and I thought that merits outweighed demerits. People need to learn from their failures and mistakes and I am not immune from these.  In June 2012, I will graduate from university with two diplomas---computer science and finance.
 
I have been living with my dream and I have been working on it, although failures have been with me too. Still I desire to give my dream shots and make it come true. The more I learn about finance, the less I know it. But chances are that I am looking forward to being in the United States of America for further study.
 
I chose Clark University---the oldest graduate schools in the United States, over other colleges and universities. I am confident that I will learn both excellent courses and advanced ideas if I can be a member of Clark University and get wonderful education there.
 

韩刚老师译文：

Personal Statement

 

Born in Beijing, China’s political capital, cultural center and economic hub, and nurtured in a well-cultured family and an empowering community, I have developed a meaningful outlook on life. I identify myself with such values that one gives meaning to life when one lives to give. Success stories of my parents, relatives and friends along their career-path have entrenched my belief in being independent and confident as a contributing member of the community.

As I look back on early days of my schooling, I am just as grateful to my working parents for having sent me to one of the best boarding schools in Beijing where I received quality primary education and learned to appreciate independence. As I recall, being independent was probably the biggest asset I gained as a teenager with the absence of parental guardianship for most of those 6 years. After I upgraded to secondary school, I offered to go to school by bike. Though hesitant at first, my parents gave their well-thought-out consent to the 15-km ride that average Chinese parents would simply veto in the first place given the “one-child policy” and subsequent “little emperors” pampered by parents and grandparents. Thankfully, that day-to-day routine bike trip, rain or sunshine, tempered my strong character. I have been holding myself to highest standards, academically and physically from primary school days through to college life. I have grown up all these years amongst top cohorts and have been exposed to varied horizons and dimensions of school life in and outside of classroom. I am perfectly healthy and strong with a sharp mind and demonstrated commitment to teamwork. I was handpicked to play for school baseball team when I was in primary school. Back then, my proven leadership and excellent skills in the field assured my coach that I was born to be a team leader. And I did justice to his well-timed appointment by heading a team of Beijing to compete in Shanghai and Hong Kong several times. And the strong track record of our outstanding performances each time still fills me with pride and excitement today. During one match tour to Hong Kong in 1990s, I was immediately exposed to the enviable luxury and prosperity of the city, the dynamic economic center of Asia. That trip awakened me, for the first time, to the value of wealth and finance. And it was that very journey to the thriving metropolis that shaped my ambition to be a financier.

Years later, when the college entrance exam came, that moment of life and death for most of senior high school students in China, my top preference was Finance College of Beijing Technology and Business University. The result came as a sad surprise as I was admitted to Computer Science College instead. But I stuck with my dream major and decided to minor in finance. I have since worked hard to equip myself with systematic knowledge of finance. As a result, I am now well on my way to graduation with double degrees in both computer science and finance in 2012. 

During my college days, I led my cohorts in starting up a micro company as I dabbled into the real business world. We settled for newspaper as our maiden attempt. As a new horn, I took a hands-on approach, from editing to circulation, from cost control to market survey. My strong leadership and synergy of the entire team kept this mini organization going pretty well in its infancy. Yet inexperience in operation and cost management led to a failed business in the end. But I saw the silver lining in the failed venture. I now know more about where I need to work on. When I was a little boy, my parents taught me how to manage money in the safest way. They helped me put my pocket money in the bank and get interest as a return. Now, as a grown-up already, I recognize that systematic learning and book knowledge can truly help me know much more about what finance is all about. Naturally, as one’s knowledge about swimming increases, the desire to swim in the sea grows. Yet, with more academic exposure, I have come to realize how I am ill-equipped with the knowledge needed to stay afloat in the turbulent sea of finance. That self-conscious humbleness versus the profundity of finance as a much-respected discipline has led me to opt for further study in the US, home to a number of world-class colleges of finance.   

After meticulous comparison and cross-checking, I have settled for Clark University, the birthplace of the first-ever graduate school in the US. I trust that demanding academic standards here and, best of all, great masterminds of finance that Clark can offer will undoubtedly broaden my horizon and update my vision as financier of the future. To me, Clark is the best and right place that can surely make the difference, academically and professionally alike. I am more than anxious to embrace those best minds in Clark and contribute my humble part to its huge wealth of knowledge and innovative ideas. I am therefore very much looking forward to a positive reply from Clark, my dream campus. May that offer come just in time for my journey towards a rewarding learning experience in one of the greatest colleges in the US.