近期哥大學校長 Lee C. Bollinger在8月底發表演講，這里面對的新生來自2026屆哥倫比亞學院和工程學院，在這里校長對新生提出了7條建議，從這些建議中，也可以看出哥大本科錄取偏好， 包括人格特點、學習態度和價值觀等做出了明示，對2023fall哥大申請者而言，無疑可以起到很大的幫助！

　　“First, you can make yourself smarter if you work at it.”-“首先，如果你努力的話，你可以讓自己變得更聰明。”

　　“You may lose track of the discussion, listen to a lecture without following the argument, read a book and feel lost; look at a painting and see nothing special only to find later how others see layers and layers of meaning. And you may get grades below your expectations for yourself. The critical point is that you never feel any of this is due to an unchangeable part of your intellect. If I have learned one thing in life, it is that over time (perhaps over a lifetime) you can change your capacities of your mind for the better. You just have to believe that and to work at it.”

　　聰明是哥大本科錄取一直都倡導的理念，所以這里不要求申請者是天才，但是需要擁有努力上進的心理，這樣聰明也可以在后天進行養成，所以高中學習成績和AP或者IB課程或者高質量的學術競賽或者創意發明，都可以讓您躍升為聰明人的行列!

　　“Second, you must constantly be alert to your bad intellectual impulses.”-你必須時刻警惕自己不良的智力沖動。

　　“Thinking well is not easy; indeed, it’s not entirely natural. You have to work at that, and against your instincts…. In the university, we are all about seeing complexity, exploring different ways of seeing things, holding multiple perspectives and possibilities in one’s mind simultaneously so we can examine them carefully, being skeptical, and acknowledging we may be in error. So, if your natural impulse is to simplify everything and to resist complexity, then you will continually struggle.”

　　要謹慎小心，更要勇于承認錯誤，更要全方位看待事情，要勇于突破自我，養成懷疑的心態。所以這也是在后天課外活動中，申請者需要養成的習慣，對于某項課外活動，務必要開放性思考和參與，更要學會從中獲得啟示。

　　“Third, I really encourage you to think big, even unrealistically big.”-鼓勵想得遠大一些，即使是不切實際的遠大。

　　“Set big goals for yourself. Let yourself have high aspirations, both for knowledge and for doing things. Let yourself have your own big dreams. (This is one natural impulse I would not discourage.) It adds meaning to our lives, a sense of purpose, and for the most part is relatively harmless. (Depending, of course, on the substance of the dreams!)”

　　要對未來充滿希望，更要堅定不移的實現目標，所以在這里職業規劃成為組成哥大本科申請的重要一部分，所以要有夢想，更要有實現夢想的動力和使命感。

　　“Fourth, you need to develop the capacity to be enthralled—enchanted—by greatness.”-需要培養被偉大所吸引的能力

　　“We need to develop a genuine respect for great works and accomplishments across the span of humanity (including an appreciation of expertise, something painfully lacking in today’s political culture).”

　　在這里，需要學生尊重歷史和偉大的作品，對于人文社科類學科而言，學生往往需要對歷史作品或者偉大人物保持一定的青睞或者欣賞，所以在這里素養也是不能缺少的品德。

　　“Fifth, I urge you to make close friends along this journey of life beginning now.”-在人生的旅途上交朋友，從現在開始

　　“I mean the great minds and works you will encounter in your studies. Select a few, those who appeal to something inside you, and live with them; make them part of your daily life; read a page, or a paragraph (or look at an image or hear the sounds or see the actions), and let your mind probe deeper and deeper into their meanings and hear your own thoughts in response. Great human achievements warrant a lifetime of attention.”

　　積極融入社區生活，尋找志同道合的朋友，為了同一件事情，同心協力去合作。

　　“Sixth, please do not think that smartness is everything in life.”-不要認為聰明就是生活的全部

　　“Being a good person, as simple and as complicated as that little statement is, is certainly equally high on our list of human qualities. We try to be that here, as well, but we also know, and you need to bear in mind always, that we are not doing everything here. I would only add that being a good person starts with how we treat each other in our little community, and, as Edmund Burke observed, it radiates out from there to humanity broadly.”

　　不要認為學習就是生活的一切，要學會融入周邊生活，豐滿自己的周邊世界

　　“Seventh, and last, I urge you to enjoy this period of life you are entering because, in all likelihood, it will never be like this again.”-享受學習生活，從細節做起

　　“This unconditional embrace of the life of the mind we nurture here is unique. Nowhere else in the world will you encounter this way of being, certainly to this degree. It is in details that larger world views are often revealed. And for us that detail is the footnote. Everything that is possible to know and understand is our ambition, reason is our method and our guide, and adding just a bit more is our goal. Every step is documented and attributed, and the footnote serves as the foundation. So, whenever you see a footnote, think of the academic culture behind it.”

　　培養自己的世界觀，更要在細節中進行實施，務必要理性和知識并行。所以推薦信往往成為哥大招生官掌握您是一個怎么樣的人具體所在，更可得知您的學習習慣和態度！

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