斯坦福、8所藤校、UCB、USC……14封offer，這位華裔妹子當真是收offer收到手軟吶！

話說我們今天要說的這位妹子名叫Cassandra Hsiao，是位來自馬來西亞的華裔美國人。

今年申請季，妹子當之無愧地成為了今年最大的offer斬獲機！14封offer啊各位同學，光看這數字就已經羨煞一堆人了！再來仔細看看發來offer的學校名字：哈佛、耶魯、哥大、達特茅斯、普林斯頓、康奈爾、賓大、布朗……八所藤校一網打盡啊，再加上斯坦福、NYU、JHU、西北、USC、艾姆赫斯特學院等學校，妹子直接包辦了美國大半一流名校啊！

要說妹子到底是有多優秀才能讓這麼多名校都爭著要她啊？讓我們來仔細扒一下妹子的背景和條件好了。

首先，妹子豐富而優秀的課外活動經歷是最大的亮點。

Cassandra Hsiao曾在臉書中自我介紹︰17歲的電影評論家、明星記者、洛杉磯時報高中特約記者、百老匯世界學生博客、詩人和劇作家。

正如她的臉書介紹一樣，雖然年紀尚小，但是妹子已經在記者採訪、影評和新聞寫作方面有了多年的經驗。

11歲時，蕭靖彤有幸成為Scholastic的兒童記者。

在進入奧蘭治縣藝術高中後，蕭靖彤開始在多家青少年網站或報刊兼職做影視類記者，經常出現在好萊塢紅毯和記者會上。

目前雖只有18歲，但Cassandra已有六年好萊塢記者的資歷，還曾獲得專門表彰影視媒體業傑出女性的格雷斯（Gracie Awards）最佳學生記者獎。

之後，Cassandra先後擔任Crixit.com和Fanlala.com等網站的青年記者，因常常採訪好萊塢紅毯而漸漸成為青少年網路紅人。

她目前還是洛杉磯時報高中特約記者、BYOU雜誌特約記者和BroadwayWorld.com上的知名博主，從年輕人的角度撰寫影評。

其次，突出的學術成績也是妹子被一種名校看重的硬性條件。

雖然Cassandra課外活動經歷豐富，她也花費了大量時間在各種採訪活動上，但是妹子的成績卻絲毫不遜色任何優秀的學生，GPA4.67、SAT1540的成績簡直令人嘆為觀止。

最後，妹子的文書同樣出彩。

因為妹子的父母是移民，母親出生在馬來西亞，父親出生在台灣。五歲時時候妹子一家才移民美國，所以英語不是父母的強項。在妹子的文書中，她描述了移民家庭學英語的真實故事，既寫出了移民家庭共同經歷過的語言煎熬和嘲笑，又通過故事展現了自己勤奮苦練自己語言和寫作能力的過程，成功打動了14所大學的招生官。

就這樣，一位課外活動豐富且獨特、成績優異、文書真實出彩的妹子完全斬獲了全美錄取率最低的大學的offer！

最後，附上妹子的文書全文：

In our house, English is not English. Not in the phonetic sense, like short a is for apple, but rather in the pronunciation – in our house, snake is snack. Words do not roll off our tongues correctly – yet I, who was pulled out of class to meet with language specialists, and my mother from Malaysia, who pronounces film as flim, understand each other perfectly.

In our house, there is no difference between cast and cash, which was why at a church retreat, people made fun of me for 「cashing out demons.」 I did not realize the glaring difference between the two Englishes until my teacher corrected my pronunciations of hammock, ladle, and siphon. Classmates laughed because I pronounce accept as except, success as sussess. I was in the Creative Writing conservatory, and yet words failed me when I needed them most.

Suddenly, understanding flower is flour wasn』t enough. I rejected the English that had never seemed broken before, a language that had raised me and taught me everything I knew. Everybody else』s parents spoke with accents smarting of Ph.D.s and university teaching positions. So why couldn』t mine?

My mother spread her sunbaked hands and said, 「This is where I came from,」 spinning a tale with the English she had taught herself.

When my mother moved from her village to a town in Malaysia, she had to learn a brand new language in middle school: English. In a time when humiliation was encouraged, my mother was defenseless against the cruel words spewing from the teacher, who criticized her paper in front of the class. When she began to cry, the class president stood up and said, 「That』s enough.」

「Be like that class president,」 my mother said with tears in her eyes. The class president took her under her wing and patiently mended my mother』s strands of language. 「She stood up for the weak and used her words to fight back.」

We were both crying now. My mother asked me to teach her proper English so old white ladies at Target wouldn』t laugh at her pronunciation. It has not been easy. There is a measure of guilt when I sew her letters together. Long vowels, double consonants — I am still learning myself. Sometimes I let the brokenness slide to spare her pride but perhaps I have hurt her more to spare mine.

As my mother』s vocabulary began to grow, I mended my own English. Through performing poetry in front of 3000 at my school』s Season Finale event, interviewing people from all walks of life, and writing stories for the stage, I stand against ignorance and become a voice for the homeless, the refugees, the ignored. With my words I fight against jeers pelted at an old Asian street performer on a New York subway. My mother』s eyes are reflected in underprivileged ESL children who have so many stories to tell but do not know how. I fill them with words as they take needle and thread to make a tapestry.

In our house, there is beauty in the way we speak to each other. In our house, language is not broken but rather bursting with emotion. We have built a house out of words. There are friendly snakes in the cupboard and snacks in the tank. It is a crooked house. It is a little messy. But this is where we have made our home.

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