Recently, Chen Hongyu of Chongqing Foreign Chinese School has successively received admission letters from 11 overseas universities such as McGill University, University of Toronto, and University of California, San Diego. How can it be favored by so many well-known foreign universities? In fact, he is not a top "scholar" in the traditional sense.
How do you get so many acceptance letters with not-so-top TOEFL and SAT scores? Chen Hongyu's colorful high school life may be able to write a footnote for this.
Led the provisional team to the runner-up
In Chen Hongyu's growth, learning has never been his all, and he has tried to have a colorful and wonderful middle school time in multiple lines. The diverse campus cultural activities are an important chapter in Chen Hongyu's growth process, and football and music are the two most important keywords.
Chen Hongyu began to be exposed to football from the fourth grade of primary school, and since then he has been out of control. In his sophomore year of high school, he was jointly elected by the seniors, and an ordinary player became the captain of the school football team. On the football field, he will control the team situation through command and shouting, and the teenager who looks like Sven Sven on weekdays becomes the leader of a team of perseverance and courage.
It was also in that year that he led the International Football Team to the second place in the Campus Football Tournament, which is also the best result achieved by the International Department so far.
"It's much harder to be the captain of the international football team than to be the captain of the school team." Chen Hongyu laughed and said that the rules of the game at that time were mixed men and women, in order to assemble the 11-man team, he racked his brains, soft and hard, and finally, finally put together a football team with only one substitute team.
Some female players do not know anything about football, even the rules do not know much, Chen Hongyu invited senior students, from the beginning to teach; some players think that the training is too hard, Chen Hongyu in the encouragement of the same time, set a small goal every day, as long as the goal is reached, everyone can rest.
After two months of training, the temporary football team stumbled into the top three, and on the day he won the runner-up, Chen Hongyu was "extremely proud", even more excited than he was after getting the best player in the whole game.
Chen Hongyu believes that as a captain, the most important thing is to lead by example, and secondly, to know how to boost morale, not to blame each other when they are at a disadvantage, and to always pay attention to maintaining a harmonious atmosphere and relationship within the team.
Colorful high school life
Music is another of Chen Hongyu's hobbies. In high school, he joined the hip-hop music club, then became the president, and wrote three original rap songs with his classmates, uploaded them to the Internet, and got tens of thousands of hits.
In Chen Hongyu's view, hip-hop is a culture full of inclusive freedom and independent spirit, which is not only reflected in the music works, but also reflects his way of life.
Every winter and summer vacation, in addition to completing the established learning tasks, he arranged a rich and diverse social practice for himself. One year, Chen Hongyu went to a pig farm in Hechuan to work as a biosecurity officer, disinfecting the pig farm every day, washing the clothes of employees, and sometimes transporting disinfection materials at 12 a.m. "That time, I really felt the pressure of work, and it was really not easy to make money." ”
In the summer of the first year of high school, Chen Hongyu went to the mall to work as a cleaner for two weeks, working from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day, in addition to completing the cleaning work in the allocated area, persuading some uncivilized behavior is also part of his daily work, "Every day there is a feeling: tired." ”
He insisted on independent thinking, when applying for overseas universities, Chen Hongyu, under the guidance of the guidance of the guidance teacher, carefully sorted out the materials, and filled in the majors including sociology, life sciences, agriculture, psychology, etc., "Because, I don't want to limit my development path to death early, I hope to slowly discover my interest in academics after going to college." ”
In the eyes of the class teacher Li Mingwei, although Chen Hongyu is not a top student bully, he must be listening carefully to the lectures during class, and the homework assigned by the teacher will be completed on time. At the same time, "he has his own independent thinking, and most of the courses in the International Department also fit this function, so that his personality can be truly developed." ”
Li Mingwei believes that Chen Hongyu's diversity is one of the important reasons why he has been photographed by many overseas universities. Chen Hongyu said that from middle school, as long as there is an opportunity and conditions, we must go out to see, participate in different activities, see different things in the world, have an open mind to challenge ourselves, and identify and participate in society with independent thoughts.
"When I was studying in high school and applying for the exam, my parents were always behind every decision I made, and it was this trust and support that made me a more independent and courageous person, trying different fields and discovering my hobbies."
Upstream News Chongqing Morning News reporter Lin Qi