我是从研二上学期开始着手申请的。顺序是：
杭州某中介
咨询à初选校-准备材料-交给中介寄出-con-offer-复选-ielts考试-full-offer。目前为止未付过中介一分钱。准备下学期电签。（搭车求下学期开学一起到
杭州idp电签，团签有优惠的;-））
2.1. 选校
前面说了自己的想法，真真实现起来还有一个必须要考虑的因素就是gf。为了保证和gf在一起，我们确定了申请
澳洲大学为主要方向。
美国由于我略显尴尬的专业背景申请起来困难较大（本科通信，研究生是电子工程，但是研究的却是外国都是计算机在研究的东西。而我对CS更感兴趣，下一步学习当然欲申请CS。
美国学校转入CS一般需要考GRE sub，
中国每年仅一次，11月，根本来不及。剩下ECE不需要GRE sub的，没有我搞的东西。。。）
妈妈去年去澳洲先考察了一下，对于墨尔本印象最好，她的意见是大花园，很好。又得知gf专业在墨尔本，悉尼之外的地方基本不可能找到工作，我们集中申请了澳洲的四所学校：墨大的CS/Comm，莫大的CS/publishing，悉尼大学的comm，UNSW的CS。（澳版发贴其他国家学校就不多说了）。
申请结果是每个大学都给了offer。我将在墨大或莫大中
选择。墨大来说：主要是认识那里的师兄，而且我不是CS科班出生，对小班比较渴望，
资金上又没有问题。莫大呢：离gf近。gf已经
选择了莫大publishing，主要是墨大con-offer需要上完硕士才能full offer，
签证来不及。
选择学校用到的一些
资料和技巧。
中间还有一段插曲就是我得到一个国家公费到UAlbert读博士的机会。不过像妈妈说得一样“我儿子不喜欢，能力不够，就不会享受研究工作，去了就像蹲监狱一样”，而且读完之后还要回国工作些许年，就老了，婉拒了。
2.2. 申请材料
我申请澳洲需要的材料是：本科学位证、本科毕业证、本科
成绩单、研究生
成绩单、研究生在读证明、
雅思成绩、coverletter。因为还要申请其他的研究型学位我和gf都已经写了PS和CV，也顺便和其他材料一起交给中介，寄了出去。楼下会放出我的PS和CV，仅供参考。本科的东西都不用多说。下面写出一些值得说明的。
研究生成绩单：我为了省钱，都是从网上下载成绩单，然后自己填上，
翻译成英文，带到学院研究生科让老师盖章。“浙大的老师会问：你这个不是
出国留学用吧？
出国的我们不负责，要到研究生院导师签字，学院盖章很多手续呢。”我说：“不是不是，是社招的，外国公司。”就盖好了。后来我和gf都以这种非正式的成绩单申请到full-offer了。所以说大部分的学校认为盖了章就是原件了，就足够了。当然要求不严很有可能是因为申请授课硕士只需要完善的本科记录就好了，研究生记录无所谓。所以硕士申硕士能省就省。
研究生在读证明：这个也是自己写了一个，翻译了一下，给老师拿去盖章了。所有四所学校每个专业都接受了这种非正式的在读证明。
PS和CV：申请coursework过程中，PS和CV是不需要的。只不过本人的特殊的转专业背景，有了CV和PS会还是有一些作用的，但即使对转专业的同学，PS和CV仍然不是必须的。可以根据自己的写作能力、空余时间来妥善选择！个人感觉到虽然是coursework，PS和CV仍然在我的申请过程中有一定的作用。当然在我申请过程中它们的重要性是由于我转专业的背景决定的。本科和研究生都是EE，申请的却是CS，有一定的跨度。当然转专业的PS和CV写法也比较重要，我主要突出了为什么转专业，对CS的兴趣，还有在读EE过程中，认真学习到的计算机相关知识。
2.3. 更改con-offer上的专业
尽管千方百计的在文书中突出了我的转专业方案，最后还是被Monash拒掉了第一志愿CS，只给了第二志愿AppIT。信中原文是说，我没有足够强的CS专业背景云云。我没有放弃立即写了一封千字长信（楼下将给出这封书信），突出我的CS专业知识，并且附上我的新版PS、CV和一篇大
学时代的计算机论文。过了半个月，Monash发过来了CS的offer。
还是一句话，要多和申请的学校交流。即使学校拒了我，也要先想一想、问一问他为啥拒我，是不是我自己还有什么别的强项忘了突出，有什么别的资料没有写到位。
另外，我不同意有些网友的观点，就是硕士生没有SCI就申请不到奖。要看是什么学科了。如果是搞化学，医学的，SCI的确硕士就应该有。但是如果是工程类的，就不是这样了。浙大CS绝大部分硕士都没有SCI，信电本届硕士没有一个同学发出SCI，但是他们当中有很多也申请到了全奖啊，不可一概而论。要知道，SCI工程类的杂志只是基础类杂志的几分之几啊。。。
下面是我的PS，个人的请勿随便用哦，可以参考样本：
PS
I can clearly recall the first time I touched a computer, an earlyApple computer at a computer introductory class in 1995; I was totallyfascinated by this little colorful magic box. I had a strong feelingthat my future would be one way or another linked with the miraculousmachine. Now several years later, as an undergraduate student atBeijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), with greatinterests and potential in Computer Science, confidence in myextraordinary learning competence, and diligence in research, I amwriting to apply for admission to the Computer Science Master programat the University of Melbourne to pursue the deep joy that Computerscience itself can take me in all my life.
Communication Engineering, the specialty I majored in as anundergraduate student, is a cross-functional, multidisciplinary subjectenhanced electricity and electronics science with intensive compulsorycourses training in Mathematics, computer technology, industrialelectronics, and instrumentation. Besides my well-performed academicrecord with a GPA 87.5 out of 100 in computer science related courses,what made the study so exciting to me is this subject expandingastonishingly at a great rate and improved my capability to identifytopics both inside and outside of the Computer Science realm.
Intending to understand the powerful and essential tool deeply, Ipoured great energy into the study of Computer Science. Other thanstudying relevant courses, such as Data Structure and Algorithms,Computer Architecture, and Operation System in school and by myself, Iworked in China Mobil, the largest Asian telecom operator, selected asan intern to practice skills of computer network management. Thispractical application in real business world was complicated andchallenging, and it helped me to develop my special interest incomputer science and wish to become a successful researcher in thefield.
With full awareness of the difficulty for undergraduate students toparticipate in actual research, I tried my best to seize everyopportunity to participate in real project. I dedicated myself in mygraduation design for half a year working on our project of distributedcomputing and developing a smart home network. Assisted by two otherteam members, I examined the three most popular network technologies,UPnP, OSGi and Jini, and finally chose Jini concerning the superiorityof Java’s cross-platform capability. I challenged myself to lift theJini’s limitations in designing and coding by adding a new service tothe network and rewriting the user end code to improve its lessadvanced resource management mechanism. The result has shown that mysolution expresses the idea of a lighter and quicker framework, whichis crucial in home networks due to limited capability of computing. Ourproject, sponsored by Sino-German Joint Software Institute, was highlyappreciated by both our advisor and the German visit technicians. Thesepractical experiences raised my careful and serious attitude towardresearch work, improved my diligence, persistence, creativity andstrong sense of teamwork, and most importantly, motivated me tocontinue my pace in computer science relevant academic area.
September 2005, I entered Zhejiang University for my postgraduatestudy. At the same time, I have been selected as a research assistantin Telecommunication and Information Research Center working on theproject of the navigation and control of moon rover based on computervision. This research project is one of the key projects sponsored byNational Natural Science Foundation. I was responsible for surveyingvarious algorithms such as particle filter, linear and quadraticiterative least squares, and evaluating their benefits anddisadvantages under the environment of moon. Due to the complexity ofthese algorithms, I spent days and nights in the lab examining all thecodes, testing every module, even improving the algorithms to make themrun correctly. I have proposed a new framework of moon roverlocalization and changed particle filter’s algorithm to meet the needof it. The paper presenting my idea and outcome has been submitted toand evaluated by an EI-indexed journal, and now I am waiting for itspublishing.
My undergraduate and postgraduate study and research experiences have given me the opportunities to realize my intended research interest, academic strengths and weaknesses. The deeper I went into the world alive that machine and intelligent computer programs can identify and recognize object automatically and complete the tasks we set, the more I attracted by it. This initiated my wish to pursue a postgraduate study and professional career in Computer Science. The University of Melbourne, as a leading university located in the beautiful metropolis Melbourne, not only attracts me by the depth and breadth of your academic programs and state-of-the-art educational facilities, but also by the perfect fitness of my intended interests, including systematical Distributed Computing courses, the field I have strong interest in and have a gift. This is exactly the kind of opportunity I am seeking to further my expertise that is practically challenging.
I believe that “Each person can only hold enough knowledge to add one small rung to the ladder, but together we can climb to the moon”. I am willing to devote my rung to the ladder of Computer Science and choose University of Melbourne to be my first step.
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