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Personal Statement
Program: International Finance and Accounting

On Nov. 11, 2001, China, together with the rest of the world, celebrated its ultimate attainment of WTO membership. As a student majoring in finance, I, while praying for a bright future for my country, feel quite excited at the encouraging career opportunities made possible by the opening of China's financial sector.

I settled in Hong Kong with my parents in 1994. My middle school life was thus spent in this financial center of the world. My parents now operate several enterprises in HK and my growth accompanied that of those enterprises. I witnessed the entire process how my parents became established in their business. Meanwhile I developed my own strong interest in commerce, especially in finance, and cultivated my business intuition. In 1998, I took the university entrance examination (administered by China Education Commission) specially orientated towards overseas Chinese students and was subsequently enrolled in Tsinghua University as the 2nd top student among them. In this most prestigious university, I chose to specialize in international finance.

With its competitive environment and academic elitism, Tsinghua University helped me develop a mature character and lay a solid career foundation. Nevertheless, as Mainland China and HK differ fundamentally in educational system and textbooks, my initial disorientation resulted in my relatively unsatisfactory scholastic performance. Yet I had implicit confidence in my intelligence and my potential and with due efforts (doing coursework for an average of 10 hours a day was not uncommon) I managed to rank top 10% for the last year in a class of 30 students and was awarded HK PeiHua Educational Scholarship. This reaffirmed my philosophy of life: success comes more from diligence than from natural talents.

Finance is a subject posing high demands on the comprehensive qualities of a person. For a practitioner in this field, mere professional knowledge is not enough. Innovativeness, interpersonal communication, and business intuition are equally important. Therefore I participated actively in rich extracurricular activities. As Minister of Academic Exchange of the Finance Association of Tsinghua University, I organized a number of academic seminars and I was awarded Best Conceptualization for Tsinghua University's annual Business Plan Competition. I won second prize in the Academic Paper Contest launched by The School of Management in 2000 for my thesis entitled Insurance Securitization. I have been able to accumulate important practical experience over the past two years by undertaking estate project evaluation and analysis of securities investment for my parents' company, applying the theoretical knowledge I had acquired from my studies. By visiting the US, Thailand and other countries, I have developed an international perspective.

In terms of my career objective, I desire to develop myself into a successful financial. Currently, China is relatively weak in its financial sector, e.g. in the creation of financial derivatives and financial management. The Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 fully exposed the flaws inherent in the existing Asian financial market. Being a HK citizen, I particularly understood its disaster impact. On account of the historical and cultural affinities between HK and UK, I choose to pursue advanced studies in UK to major in and finance.

I plan to apply for a Master's Program at the reputed London Institute of Finance and Economics where I will receive the most updated professional training and enrich my professional expertise. After completing my Program, I plan to work for approximately 2 years in a multinational financial enterprise in HK and then embark on an MBA Program at a first-rate American university. Ultimately, I plan to take over my parents' business and transform their company into a major financial establishment.

Recommendation Letter

Dear Sir or Madam:

The School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, of which Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji is honorary director, is a cradle nurturing senior economists for China. As director of the school's academic committee and Dean of Tsinghua University's International Finance Department, I hereby sincerely recommend Miss Regina Li to you and your distinguished university.

Miss Li is my student. As she is the only student from Hong Kong in our school, I have paid special attention to her since she entered our school. She is versatile and always cheerful and optimistic. On one occasion she invited me to watch a stage drama Snowy Wolf Lake. It was really wonderful. I simply could not imagine she, my student, was the very director of the drama. Nevertheless, accustomed to the British-style education she received in Hong Kong, she had some initial difficulties adapting herself to her new environment in Tsinghua University. I had several detailed talks with her and provided her with important opinions on how to make a fresh start. Much to my delight, by making assiduous efforts, Miss Li caught up with her classmates and even succeeded in surpassing most of them.

From then on, I found her obviously much more diligent in her studies. What moved me most was that according to her dormitory roommates, she studied for more than ten hours everyday. When she was a first-year student, I was her teacher in Introductions to Economics and Finance. She merely managed to pass the examination of this course. But when I again become her teacher in Introduction to Financial Engineering this year, her monthly essays are so professionally written that I become once again shocked at her extraordinary latent study capacity. I am also excited by her new ideas in those essays that testify to her full academic potential. Of course, I am perfectly satisfied with her performance so far.

A few days back she told me she wanted to study in Britain after graduation. I said I would write a letter of recommendation in her favor, because I believe she will be successful in her future studies in Britain. I would say to you, you do not need to worry whether her English is good enough to fulfill her studies in Britain. She had no problem communicating with Britons directly even before entering our school. Concluding, I would say I am full of confidence that Miss Li will complete her studies in Britain. I sincerely hope you will accept my recommendation.

Yours sincerely,