美国大学面试题分析:greatest strengths.

Question 4: What are your three greatest strengths? 其实这是给你一个机会highlight what you want to the admissions committee. 你的回答应该是尝试着给人一种很thoughtful和nique的印象。千万别说：“I don’t really know what they are. Can we come back to this question? ” 如果你不能够很快地come up一个answer的话，这是很糟糕的一件事。 如果你只是给了3个(或n个)很generic attributes without providing details on how those attributes have been demonstrated，it’s fine but not perfect. 好像“My three greatest strengths are: hard-working, smart, and funny ”之类的。 The great response is that the Student mentions 3 attributes (or 3+ attributes) and describes where each comes from and where they have exemplified it. 举例，好像这样的一种回答：“My first strength is my compassion. I have been a peer counselor for the past 3 years and I have realized that I am able to connect with those that call. Many times people just want someone to listen to them without giving advice right away. I feel that, for the most part, I can find that line by just tuning into what the other person needs. My second strength is my ability to lead. For me leadership is not just forcing people to do something that I want but being able to build a common goal and inspiring others to reach it. As Vice-President of the Humanity Club at my school, it was hard to get people to volunteer their entire weekend to build a house because my classmates are so busy. But I created a poster board that told the story of a family that lost their house because of a fire. They had to live on the street and Habitat was helping them. I presented this family’s need to my club and also promised lots of pizza and soda for coming out to help. We took lots of pictures and posted them on the website and our school paper wrote a story about it. The next time the opportunity to build came up，we had more than enough volunteers. And my third strength is my curiosity. I love to ask questions and sometimes these questions lead to more questions than answers. But my curiosity is my drive to learn. I stay up late working on Physics problem sets not because I need to get them done, but because I truly want to understand how vectors are used to build bridges. ”