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만일 당신이 상위 MBA 학교에 대기 상태에 있다면, 좀 더 경쟁력있는 지원이 되도록 적극적으로 나서야 합니다. 어떻게 해야하는지 다음의 조언들을 참고하세요!

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입학 지원 에세이는 지원자가 입학 사정관들에게 자신에 대해 알릴 수 있는 기회입니다. 미국 상위 인문과학대학 중 하나인 Pomona College의 부총장이며 입학과 재정 담당자가 제시한 조언을 잘 활용해 보세요!

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미국에서의 MBA를 고려하고 계신가요?  UC 버클리 MBA 지원자의 성공적인 인터뷰를 보시고, 미국 상위 10위권 학교에 지원한 우수한 지원자에 대해 배워보세요!

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By Lee Woo-young

The government has set aside more funds for state scholarships to ease the heavy college tuition burden, allowing college students to receive loans without having to repay them before finding employment, the Education Ministry said Monday.

Increased tuition subsidies will be offered to college students through the 2012 national budget as the government added 250 billion won ($216 million) to the previous 1.5 trillion won, the ministry said.

The extra subsidies are expected to decrease nominal college tuition by 25 percent, 3 percent higher than the previous estimate when the fund amounted to 1.5 trillion won. The subsidies will be given to the bottom 70 percent income bracket, whose annual income is under 51 million won, officials said.

About 760,000 students, about 57 percent of the total, are estimated to be eligible to benefit from the subsidies.

Another 823 billion won will be spent to lower the interest rate of the national student loan by 1 percentage point to 3.9 percent and lower the minimum grade for the loan from B to C.

The government linked increased subsidies to universities’ efforts to decrease their tuition fees as well as to provide students with more scholarships. Depending on their efforts, the government will determine the amount of tuition subsidies they will receive.

About 1.7 million college students, 78 percent of the total in Korea, have applied for the state scholarship since December.

Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120102000769

Becoming a teacher or a civil servant is the most favored career path for South Korean high school students and their parents, a survey showed Tuesday, reflecting their desire for job security.

In a survey of 2,165 high school students across the country conducted by the education ministry, 11 percent selected teaching as their preferred future job, followed by civil service at 4.2 percent and the police force at 4.1 percent.

Explaining why they chose their future career paths, the respondents said they were influenced by their parents the most, followed by media, teachers and peers, while key factors also included their aptitude and talent, the survey showed.

In the same survey of 1,876 parents, 17.8 percent, the largest segment, preferred a government job for their children, with the next largest group of 16.9 percent wanting their offspring to become teachers. Becoming a doctor ranked third at 6.8 percent, while 4.4 percent said they would put their children’s preference first.

“As unemployment has become a nagging social problem, not only a growing number of job seekers but also high school students are looking to the public sector. It is deemed to guarantee greater job security,” said Kim Na-rah, an official at the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training.

The country’s jobless rate reached 2.9 percent in November last year, but unemployment among those aged 15 to 29 for the same month was 6.8 percent, government data showed.

Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120110000358

미국 대학의 외국학생을 위한 재정 지원 체계는 매우 복잡합니다. U.S. News and World Report 기사에 따르면,장래의 외국학생들은 전문가에게서 다양한 재정지원에 관한 조언을 구할 것을 제시합니다. 이것은 학생들이 최고의 재정지원에 관한 검색을 할 수 있게 해 줄 것입니다.

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미국 대학 지원은 여러 분야로 이루어져 있으며, 각 분야에 대한 비중은 때마다 다릅니다. U.S. News and World Report는 입학 담당자나 전문 상담자로부터  대학 지원서에서 가장 중요한 부분을 식별해서 입학 가능성을 높일 수 있는 방법에 대한 의견을 모았습니다.

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미국 유명한 대학에서 제공하는 오픈 코스웨어 프로그램은 최근 몇년 동안 학생들 사이에서 매우 인기가 높았습니다. 2012년 봄을 시작으로 MIT는 외부 학생들에게 확인서를 발급하는 오픈 코스웨어를 제공하는 계획을 하고 있습니다. 이 새로운 프로젝트에 관한 좀 더 자세한 내용은 아래의 링크를 보시기 바랍니다.

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By Na Jeong-ju

The government announced a plan to overhaul the grading system for middle and high school students, Tuesday, in a bid to revamp the competition-oriented learning environment at schools.

Under the plan, the current nine-grade relative evaluation system at high schools will be replaced by a six-grade college-style absolute assessment format by 2014.

Currently, the grade of a student is decided based on his or her standing from exams in comparison to the entire student body.

Under the new system, however, the students’ scores will be marked only on an absolute scale of A, B, C, D, E, F, which is similar to the evaluation system being adopted by most colleges here, according to the education ministry.

The ministry said the change will help ease the stiff competition among students for entering college, but schools don’t agree. They claimed that the new system will prompt colleges to give more weight to their own essay tests and interviews in selecting students, jeopardizing public education and increasing students’ dependence on private tutoring.

“We will gradually introduce the new grading system at middle schools and vocational high schools beginning next year. It will be adopted by all high and middle schools by 2014,” said Ryu Jung-sup, a ministry official.

“We decided to overhaul the system because the current one is too competition-driven and puts students under a lot of stress. It is an attempt to change the learning environment for the better.”

Academic achievement gap

The official said the government will also increase courses in which students can develop their ability to think and nurture creativity, while reducing courses focused on purely academic achievement.

Some teachers alleged that the absolute evaluation system may deepen the academic achievement gap between students attending schools in big cities and those in rural areas. They also predict that the competition to enter foreign-language schools and the so-called autonomous private high schools, which have outperformed ordinary schools in academic achievement, will become fiercer.

“The new policy will make competitive schools even more competitive, but will make it more difficult for those in rural and provincial areas to attract students,” said an official of the Korean Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union.

He also forecast that prestigious colleges will increase their dependence on essay tests and interviews to choose students.

Schools have put more weight on such exams than on scores from the state-administered College Scholastic Ability Test and on academic achievements at high schools in selecting students. This year, the importance of essay tests and interviews was even greater as the CSAT was easier than in the past.

Scholars have cautioned that as an essay score has become a crucial evaluation criterion for college applicants, household spending on private education is growing further.

Source:  The Korea Times (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=100732)

외국인학생에게 가장 호의적인 대학의 순위는 뉴스위크지에 실린 내용으로, 외국인 학부학생의 비율, 외국인 학부학생에게 주어지는 평균 재정 지원 비용, 학생 서비스 비용의 비율을 기준으로 책정되었습니다.

• 설명: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/college-rankings/2011/international-students.html
• 순위: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/college-rankings/2011/international-students.all.html