Thư giới thiệu là một phần câu chuyện mà bạn muốn chia sẻ với hội đồng tuyển sinh của các trường đại học. Vì thế câu chuyện của bạn nên thật thú vị, khác biệt với các học sinh khác và phản ánh chân thực về các bạn.Dưới đây là chia sẻ của 1 giáo viên tại một trường THPT của Mỹ về thư giới thiệu mà cô đã viết cho 2 bạn học sinh.

✍️𝐓𝐡𝐮̛ 𝐠𝐢𝐨̛́𝐢 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞̣̂𝐮 𝐬𝐨̂́ 𝟏
“Dear Admissions Committee,
HC is a senior at …… High School. He is hardworking and well-respected. HC currently ranks 15 out 287 students at our highly competitive high school. Out of the 22 AP classes offered, HC has taken 8. Our classes are highly rigorous and HC excels in them.HC’s highest SAT Math score is 800 and his highest Evidence Based Reading and Writing score is 750. He has taken eight AP exams and done well on all of them. We are very proud of him.In his free time, HC is a member of our Robotics Team, National Honors Society, and Chess Club. Computer Science is his favorite subject matter and he hopes to major in this field in college. HC is one of our best students. He will make a fine addition to any college. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.”
📍Nhận xét của ban tuyển sinh:
Nội dung của thư giới thiệu này rất chung chung, chỉ nói về kết quả học tập tốt của học sinh và các hoạt động ngoại khóa học sinh từng tham gia (đã được đề cập trong phần khác của bộ hồ sơ) mà không nhắc đến bất kỳ yếu tố nào khác thể hiện được việc hiểu rõ học sinh ngoài 2 phạm vi này, không nêu lên được cá tính, yếu tố nổi bật có thể khiến học sinh khác biệt với những ứng viên khác.
👉Kết quả: Học sinh này đã bị từ chối bởi 8/12 trường nộp đơn mặc dù điểm SAT của bạn là 1550/1600.

✍️𝐓𝐡𝐮̛ 𝐠𝐢𝐨̛́𝐢 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞̣̂𝐮 𝐬𝐨̂́ 𝟐
“Dear Admissions Committee,
It gives me great pleasure to recommend AL for admission. In over 20 years working as a college counselor at ….. High School, I have never encountered a more generous young man than AL. He has the intellect to succeed at any college in the country, yet it’s his genuine heart which has won all of us over. In fact, there is no other student at our school who is more respected than AL.
As his transcript suggests, AL is part of a small cohort of high achieving students at our school. The competition is quite fierce at …School as students will do almost anything to outrank each other. AL, on the other hand, takes our most challenging classes but he leads with his curiosity rather than strategy. In fact, when the top students in the class all decided to forgo our well-respected (but unweighted) seminar program in order to take another AP class junior year to increase their rank, AL chose to keep it. When I asked him about it, he replied,“Learning without the confines of meeting AP expectations is too precious to me and I can’t imagine my school day without Seminar. I’m just too at peace with myself in Seminar to give it up.” AL is a rare find in a generation which sometimes focuses too much on results rather than true understanding.

While AL’s record is quite impressive, he doesn’t have as many A’s in his academic classes or 5’s on AP exams as others in his class. If you didn’t know AL, one might just assume that he’s not working to his potential or that he doesn’t have the intellectual strength of his classmates. Neither is the case for AL. Those of us on the faculty that know AL’s home life see his transcript as a tremendous accomplishment. AL probably won’t mention it, but his home life is far from perfect. He is being raised by a single mom who suffers from severe mental illness. While his friends have the support of two engaged parents who provide for them, AL must provide for himself and his mom. He works night shifts at the local McDonald’s after school to pay rent and bills. He gets his homework done on breaks and in the wee hours of the morning before heading to school each day. His B’s are a badge of honor because of the circumstances he deals with every single day.

If AL didn’t have to work every night during the school week, his grades would surely be A’s. But then again, he wouldn’t be the “AL” we know and respect if that were the case. There is no one in his class or any class to come through…School who has ever impressed us more. It is important to note that AL hopes to major in Computer Science in college. He took AP Computer Science as a sophomore. Everyone else in the class was a senior. Although he got an 89 for the final, he was the only student to receive a 5 on the AP exam. His computer skills became apparent to all of us when our computer system crashed a week before graduation last year. We initially turned to our AP Computer Science teacher, Mr. Jones, for assistance. When Mr. Jones wasn’t able to determine the problem, he called on AL for help. Within a few hours,AL identified the problem and got our entire system online again to finalize transcripts for graduation. Our principal shed a few tears of joy when he realized who had come to our rescue. In actuality, we all shed a few tears that day when we began to see AL as more than just a resilient soul, but a computer genius who was far more talented than we had ever realized.
I encourage the admissions committee to consider AL’s candidacy on a deep and personal level. AL would never want you to overlook his B’s or his “just-outside-the-top-10%-rank.”Instead, he would want you to see his B’s and his #52 rank for what it means to him in his own words:I know what I face every single day. I know what I can and can’t accomplish given my family responsibilities and job. Those B’s aren’t the next best thing to A’s in my world. They represent me being a good student, a better son, and most of all, a man of my word. If you have any questions about AL, please reach out to me. I would move mountains for AL.There is no one I have ever recommended more highly than AL.”

📍Nhận xét của ban tuyển sinh:
Nội dung của thư giới thiệu này thể hiện rõ định hướng chuyên ngành mà học sinh muốn theo học là Computer Science. Ngoài ra, giáo viên hiểu rất rõ về học sinh ngoài phạm vi trường học: hiểu rõ về tính cách của học sinh, hoàn cảnh gia đình và điều vô cùng quan trọng trong cuộc sống của bạn đó là tất cả vì gia đình.
👉Kết quả: Học sinh này sẽ theo học trường đại học Princeton (#1 NU) vào mùa thu 2021 này với điểm SAT là 1520/1600, thậm chí còn thấp hơn của bạn học sinh số 1.
Nếu bạn là đại diện tuyển sinh của các trường đại học Mỹ, bạn sẽ nhận học sinh nào sau khi đọc 2 bức thư giới thiệu trên?
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