I can see that this is the toughest part of your job.

DB: Yes, I hate it; it is the worst stage. I love making the phone calls but I hate sending letters to people who cannot come here, especially when you can tell that they genuinely want to be here; it is very hard.

Earlier this month, an article in Business Week talked about b-schools leaving China. I knew one of the b-schools well, Maryland’s Smith Business School, having helped them with their China business case competitions in past years. I contacted Smith to find out more about why they suspended of their eMBA program in Beijing. With a new business school dean taking over the management of the program, the university decided to take a pause as it re-evaluates all its overseas educational programs. Even though the program offered an excellent education for Chinese middle managers, the cost was too expensive for individuals to pay and most students were sponsored by their companies – a common practice in Korea and Japan – but still rare today in China.

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     下定决心，是我们从开始准备申请MBA的那一刻就必须拥有的一种态度。

     祝愿每一个有梦想的人都能有决心实现自己的梦想。希望Touchdown！可以帮助所有MBA申请者把你的梦想照进现实。

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   所以，对于G/T，建议大家还是要认真准备。特别是这两年由于许多金融精英加入到申请行列，极大推动了整个申请者的平均水平，越来越多语言考试分数较高、背景较好的申请者让申请难度犹如北京初夏的气温越来越高。而中国乃至亚洲本来就是个擅长考试的国度，所以，这两个分数还是比较重要的。

    但是并非分数越高机会就一定很大。就GMAT来说，我们认为730和750在申请上并没有太大的区别。而更具核心竞争力的就是大家的文书了。而这一点，也是Touchdown能够提供的最具价值的服务之一。一篇好的文书能够把你的优点恰如其分的表现出来，让招生官通过文字就能感觉到一个栩栩如生的你。我们的客户中也有很多人是英语科班出生的，比如今天到场的就有三位是英语专业的背景。但是他们还是觉得自己不够能力把文书写到Good enough的程度。因为，文书不仅需要你有良好的英语写作能力，更需要一种思维。一种美国的逻辑思维方式。而这一点，除非是在美国土生土长或者在受美国文化熏陶多年，否则还是很难做到的。而这也是为什么一些背景优秀的申请者落马的原因——无法逻辑清楚的用英语表现自己。

    其次是大家关