Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time.
Havard 对优秀的申请人品质的描述: ”maturity, character, leadership, self-confidence, warmth of personality, sense of humor, energy, concern for others and grace under pressure.” ( 成熟、人品、领导力、自信、温暖、幽默、充满能量、体及他人以及临危不乱 )。
耶鲁大学
“We are looking for students we can help to become the leaders of their generation in whatever they wish to pursue.” (我们寻找的是可以帮助其在某个领域成为这一代人的先锋和领袖的人)。
普林斯顿大学
“We look for students who make a difference in their schools and communities, so tell us about your leadership activities, interests, special skills and other extracurricular involvements.” ( 我们寻找的是可以给学校和社会带来改变的人 ,所以请告诉我们你的领导力活动、兴趣、特长以及其他课外的活动)
文理学院
Wesleyen University 卫斯理大学 To be a “contributor” to a chess club is to be merely average; to be president of that chess club, by contrast, is to display some intangible merit. (成为象棋俱乐部的 “ 贡献者 ” 之一仅仅只是一般; 然而成为象棋俱乐部的主席则是无形的价值。 )
Wesleyen 的招生官说道 “A 9 [out of 9] at Wesleyan…someone ‘sure to “have significant impact on campus in leadership roles”; a 7 or 6 would be assigned to someone who was “likely to be a leader in some areas, contributor to many.” (我们打分的时候,能获得 9 分满分的是在校园中具有领导力才能和有影响力的人;一个 7 分或者 6 分的人可能在某个特定领域有可能成为引领者,但大部分时候是一个追随者)。
Tufts University塔夫斯大学
塔夫斯大学前招生主任说到, “students should be admitted to college on the basis of their potential for future leadership and active citizenship, at whatever level of society” (学生的录取应该基于 他们无论处于社会的哪个层次都体现成为未来领袖和活跃的公民的潜质 )。
他认为领导力 “not in the sense of achieving a level of authority, but rather as making a positive, meaningful, and hopefully enduring difference to the world at some level” (不是就获取权威而言, 而是对这个世界作出积极的有意义的以及深远影响里的事情 )。