Chuang Tzu-Yuan
BLK15 37 Prince George’s Park Rd
118430 Singapore . (+65)84591300 wordbrick@hotmail.com
11-Sep-2011
University of Maryland CSP Program
3214 Benjamin Building College Park, MD 20742
To Graduate Admissions
“If this world change too fast to catch up hot occupation, why not follow your gift?” By literature review, no matter in personality, career choosing or overcoming past and nowadays issue, youth is the most critical period to give a change. Because youth can make a decision him/herself by deeply understanding his/her owns. As a result, youth could take on this responsibility to change society actively. This is the main idea why I would like to pursue being a professional college counselor as my life career. I would like to be a mirror to reflect their thoughts and conflicts in heart in order to helping youth to understand themselves. During the university education, besides my majors, I studied in psychology and educational coursework. I learned the most important things in counseling psychology is to respect individual differences, because I believe that everyone have their values toward the world.
In order to learn more various perspectives, I participated the volunteer work in Canada and went to National University of Singapore (NUS) as an exchange student. When I stayed with disabled youth, I learn to observe their every little behavior carefully to know their expression and feeling. As counseling work, we should have great sympathy to stand on clients’ feet. In addition to taking psychology course in NUS, soaking myself in different culture environment is the greatest challenge during this exchange year. Like even using the same language to communicate, you can’t exactly understand each other unless you put yourself in their culture contexts. For challenging myself, I seek the opportunity to do a research project with various kind of people to learn effective communication and understanding in living of multiculturalism.
To sum up, being multiculturalism is an unavoidable trend in current world. I really want to pursue this opportunity studying in Maryland CSP program to become a professional counselor helping college student to overcome inner conflicts and adopt this complex life environment. Thank you for your consideration.
Best regards,
Chuang Tzu-Yuan
hey susan, there are many styles of writing, i thought it might be better if you tackle it with this qn "why should you (the university) accept me into the program?" or "why do i want to apply for this course?". Because as it is right now, it feels like you are describing yourself without linking back to the main point. On a side note, don't use words like can't or don't or didn't in a cover letter. =)
回覆刪除Hi Susan! I feel that you should make it clearer in your cover letter on the skills that you possess and convince the organization that you have the right skill set for the job.
回覆刪除I do like the way you started your application letter, as it is really unlike the usual openings. If I am the person reading it, I will definitely enjoy this different style of writing :)