American Corner Bacau

Events

Study in the USA

On February 27-28, 2007, American Corner Bacau hosted a seminar chaired by Mrs. Mihaela Arsene, Director of Advising Services of the Fulbright Commission in Romania. The seminar included two eight-hour workshops on "Admissions to Undergraduate Study in the USA" and "Admissions to Graduate Study in the USA". About 50 participants, high school students and college students, learned how to prepare for the tests, how to write an admission essay, and what to include in an application dossier. In addition, they found out about being accepted and getting funding for continuing studies in USA. The program included a presentation on the US universities, and the resources they offer to their students.

Participants received the free course support from Fulbright Commission and some informative materials from American Corner Bacau: "If you want to study in the US: Graduate and professional study and research" and "If you want to study in the US: Undergraduate study".

The seminar ended with a reception offered by the Fulbright Commission on February 28 at the American Corner Bacau for the participants of seminar, high school teachers, university professors, and local press.

Media coverage: one interview for Radio Alfa on 27 February; two materials on Alfa TV on February 27 and 28; and six articles in local newspapers (Monitorul de Bacau on February 24 ‘American Corner Bacau invites you to study in USA’; Desteptarea on February 27 ‘CCD Bacau helps you to study in USA’; Monitorul de Bacau on February 28 ‘For the first time in Bacau: Fulbright prepares Romanian students for the United States’; Ziarul de Bacau on February 28 ‘The Fulbright program is preparing the road to America’; Desteptarea on March 1 ‘The students from Bacau want to study at US universities’; Desteptarea on March 5 ‘A different kind of siege. < In Romania, you can only be a wheel in the system… >’).

Study in the USA

In zilele de 27 si 28 februarie, 2007, American Corner Bacau a fost gazda unui seminar oferit publicului bacauan de Comisia Fulbright din România si sustinut de dna Mihaela Arsene, director în cadrul Fulbright Educational Advising Center.

Sub genericul "Study in the USA", seminarul a cuprins doua workshop-uri, organizate pe parcursul a opt ore fiecare: ‘Admission to Undergraduate Study in the USA’ si ‘Admission to Graduate Study in the USA’. Participantii, liceeni si studenti, au aflat cum pot fi admisi si finantati pentru a-si continua studiile în SUA. Programul a cuprins prezentarea ofertei academice a universitatilor americane si a resurselor pe care acestea le pun la dispozitia studentilor. De asemenea, au aflat cum trebuie alcatuit un dosar de admitere, ce trebuie sa contina acest dosar, cum sa se pregateasca pentru testele specifice sau cum sa conceapa un eseu pentru admitere.

Cei aproximativ 50 de participantii au primit gratuit din partea Comisiei Fulbright suportul de curs. American Corner Bacau le-a oferit materiale informative: "If you want to study in the US: Graduate and professional study and research" si "If you want to study in the US: Undergraduate study".

Programul intens al seminarului s-a finalizat cu o receptie oferita de Comisia Fulbright in 28 februarie la American Corner Bacau si la care au fort prezenti participantii la workshop-uri, cadre didactice de la colegiile bacauane, profesori universitari si presa.

Ecouri în presa locala: 6 articole în presa scrisa (Monitorul de Bacau din 24 februarie 'American Corner Bacau va invita sa studiati în SUA'; Desteptarea din 27 februarie 'CCD Bacau te ajuta sa studiezi în SUA'; Monitorul de Bacau din 28 februarie 'Pentru întâia data în Bacau. Fulbright pregateste studenti români pentru State'; Ziarul de Bacau din 28 februarie 'Programul Fulbright batatoreste calea spre America'; Desteptarea 1 martie 'Studentii bacauani vor la universitati din SUA'; Desteptarea din 5 martie 'Un altfel de asediu. < În România nu poti fi decât o rotita într-un sistem >'); un interviu, la Radio Alfa, acordat telefonic de prof. Gabriel Stan, Directorul CCD Bacau in 27 februarie si doua aparitii la TV Alfa, în programul de stiri în 27 si 28 februarie.

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