What happened when high school students were admitted to a famous American school because they wrote a joke of 150 words with their personal experience?

Chen Yu, a senior three student in Wuhan, wrote a joke of 150 words based on her personal experience, and successfully got the admission notices from American universities such as Smith College.

Chen Yu said that documents are an important "checkpoint" for applying to American universities, and the titles of documents vary greatly from university to university. Last September-65438+February was the darkest month in my life, because I had been writing the application documents of various universities, and I changed them many times, and I was still changing them before the deadline. Chen Yu still remembers that Smith College's musical instrument is "Tell us a joke".

Chen Yu said that this is not just a joke. Because of the cultural differences between China and the United States, Americans don't necessarily laugh at jokes they know. Finally, she wrote a joke with no more than 150 words based on an interesting story caused by a translation error between China and the United States.

On the first day of the first month of this year, Chen Yu received the admission notice from Smith College. The school ranks second among all women's colleges in the United States, with a comprehensive ranking of 12. Previously, Chen Yu applied to two American universities, one rejected her and the other shelved her. This once made her wonder if she was not good enough and if there was something wrong.

Because both the good and the bad have been experienced, in the face of parents' questions, "Is it easier to enter American universities than the domestic college entrance examination?" Chen Yu firmly replied: "The pressure of studying abroad can't be compared with the pressure of the national college entrance examination. The entrance examination to American universities has to go through many hurdles.". From standardized test scores to extracurricular activities and document writing, candidates need to redouble their efforts and go all out. "