*本文为乐成教育集团内刊的内容。我在五月接受了该杂志的采访。

《乐成》 ：你是何时来到国际学校就读的？与之前的国内学校相比，你觉得都有哪些不同？

许筱艺 (April Xiaoyi Xu)：我是九年级来国际学校就读的，那时我刚刚上完八年级。之前就读于北京市重点中学二中的数学实验班，分数被视作最为重要的，所以功课特别紧，我每天回家都要面对做不完的试卷。

我觉得国际学校的不同之处在于：鼓励学生从参加各种课外活...

Of all the items in my walk-in closet, my favourite is a plain DIY T-Shirt from Greece. It has Plato’s quote, ‘Thinking: the Talking of the Soul with Itself.’ and my name in Greek.

I wore it to our Orientation Adventure at Sequoia National Park, a four-day hiking-and-camping trip that marked the start of real college life: as my parents returned to China during my time at Sequoia, I was ...

It started with the Tower of Babel from the biblical Book of Genesis…

There I was, sitting in my IB Business and Management class, wondering why on earth in this era of globalisation we still see language differences as a significant barrier for businesses expanding into new markets.

The biblical story enlightened me with an answer that extends beyond the realm of business: collaboration. 

从今天开始，我将会解答读者在美国大学申请过程中的问题及疑虑。欢迎大家留言。

今天解答的问题：

1. 除了成绩EC什么才能让一个candidate脱颖而出呢？比如是不是EC能体现一条主线比较好？就是能和你填在commonapp上的intended major联系起来？

2. 如果double major的话workload会不会很大?

3. 我比较担心学一个social science学科毕业后好不好找工作的问题...学校有没有那种fair之类的，像sociology psychology这...