考完试之后，我开始游手好闲，到处瞎玩。七八月份，开始选校。找到一份传播学排名，挨个上系里的网页去看。看了几十个学校，头昏眼花的，却没啥感觉。
后来我对自己的情况进行了一番分析。我的优点在哪里？有新闻工作经验，这一点对申请实践导向的新闻学有利。但问题是我不想读新闻学，因为在美国学到的一套在国内根本用不上，我想改读研究导向的传播学。但是我没有任何研究经验（上大学虽然写过论文，但完全是胡编瞎抄，现在自己看看都会觉得脸红）。这样的话，怎样使我的实践经验能支持我的申请？
想啊想，我终于想到了一个点：我的工作使我比其他申请人更了解中国的新闻体制，以及政治体制。我可以在这个方面比其他人具有优势。于是我把我的申请方向定为Media System。（实际上，后来写PS时，我的整个思路也是围绕这一点展开的。）
有了方向，选校就有的放矢了。看看系里有没有这个研究方向，教授里有没有偏重这个方向的，再看看国际学生有没有钱，要不要tse(我口语一般，所以不打算考)，要不要提交论文。综合几点，我把排名较靠前的一百来所美国大学新闻传播院系挨个过了一遍，最后选了五所学校，psu,isu,fsu,lsu,unlv,后来为了凑数，又加了univ of new mexico和university of south coralina。其实后两所和我的方向并不吻合。后来，前五所全部录取了我，后两所都不要我。可见方向之重要性。
lsu是唯一给我全奖的一所学校，也是和我的方向最吻合的一所学校。所以尽管他们面试时我迷迷糊糊不知所云，我都认为肯定没戏了，他们还是给了我钱。
再说一下我的ps。这份小东西改了无数遍，最后还算满意。初稿出来，我把它发给N个朋友包括美国的同学看，结果大家都觉得我写得太谦虚了，各种闪光点都没有突出。我只好狠着心再把自己所有可以吹的东西再吹了一遍，自己看着都觉得有些脸红了。然后就是细枝未节的修改，词句的修改，把几个段落颠来倒去的安排了一遍，自己觉得较有内在逻辑性了，终于定稿。然后交给不同学校时，再结合各学校的特点小小改动发挥一下。
因此，我觉得申请传播的同志们，一定先要认真分析一下自己的背景，有什么经验，有什么特长，对哪些领域有特殊的兴趣，基于这一点认真选校，再写一篇发挥你专业见解的PS。知己知彼，才能百战不殆么。
另外，听说有论文可以加分，我还花了很多精力在炮制论文上，可以说呕心沥血，绞尽脑汁，搞了一份五千来字的writing sample。实际上，我后来认为这篇论文并没有为我的申请加多少分。我没有交这份东西给lsu，他们却给了我钱；而我交了论文的两个学校并没有给我钱。可能美国教授根本看不入眼这种肤浅的东西。
下面附上我的ps,希望给大家以参考。
PERSONNAL STATEMENT
I am a 23-year-old political affairs reporter in an elite news agency of P R. China. I have decided to pursue a MA degree in your graduate program to prepare for doctoral studies because I have found great interest in mass communication research and want more academic training.
Since a little girl, I had dreamed of being a reporter who could stand in front of great events. Thus, I entered the Renmin University J-school, the best J-school in China, with the fifth highest score of National Entrance Exam among nearly 100,000 Anhui Province attendees in 1997.
To realize my career aim of entering national media after graduation, I worked studiously both in and out of class. My academic performance was so brilliant that I was awarded university scholarship in four years consecutively. A paper of mine about Internet’s challenges on radio was published on China Journalism Review in 2000. As my main campus activity, I joined an influential campus newspaper ‘Renmin Youth’ and became the editor-in-chief in junior year. I really enjoyed managing attractive campus reports with my colleagues. Off campus, I interned in two Beijing local newspapers ‘Beijing Youth Daily’ and ‘Science Time’ for a year in 2000. My ability of writing in-depth reports was so greatly enhanced that a number of them were published during this period. My outstanding performance won me the precious chance of entering China news Service (CNS), one of the only two national news agencies of China after graduation.
In CNS, I worked hard and proved myself a competent reporter by winning several sound news awards such as the best annul news award by CPPCC(Chinese People''s Political Consultative Conference), but I never felt real happiness of achievement. Almost all my daily reports that focused on China’s highest leaders’ activities, public policies, and important political events had to be censored by the leaders’ secretaries or news officials. No words beyond official approval were permitted to publish. No doubt, no dissension, no criticism, only high praise. The only use of my professional ability is molding uncharacteristic cliche into a smooth news-like shape. What I thought really had news value could only be viewed as talking material among close friends.
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