More students want to gain a first mover advantage. During the hot summer vacation, a group of junior students rushed to different schools' summer camps just to fight for an extra opportunity to be admitted to graduate school. In recent years, more and more universities have opened excellent summer camps for college students, and the performance of campers is an important basis for recommending graduate students. Some schools can even provide "pre admission" qualifications, so it is also known as "guaranteed graduate summer camps". As the summer vacation enters the latter half, the summer camps in universities are gradually coming to an end. Some students have been awarded multiple titles of "Outstanding Camper", and in the upcoming September pre promotion exemption stage, they have more possibilities. And students who fail in summer camps need more opportunities for advance admission. With the expansion of graduate enrollment and the increase in the proportion of recommended students, undergraduate student recommendation programs have received increasing attention. In addition to the news of "whole bedroom recommendation" and "whole class recommendation", many students who are recommended for graduate studies have expressed that the difficulty of recommendation is increasing, and they need to prepare for it from the beginning of their freshman year without any slack. For recommended graduate students, 'every step must be taken well'. In July, Hou Jingyu from Wuhan University participated in a summer camp at a college of Peking University and was awarded the title of 'Outstanding Camper'. This is the most complex summer camp I have ever encountered She introduced that the summer camp has a 4-day schedule, including an ice breaking session, a full day thesis defense, a 20 minute all English interview per person, quality development, and welcoming activities. The intensive itinerary made Hou Jingyu start thinking about whether she really wanted to study and also met many excellent people. College summer camps generally start in July and begin accepting applications in May or June. In order to fully participate in this summer camp, Hou Jingyu gave up several summer camps with conflicting schedules. In the first three years of college, this choice is reflected in not being able to slack off at all, and for those who are recommended for graduate studies, 'every step must be taken well'. The 'hard foundation' of recommendation for postgraduate studies is GPA ranking, and students must first obtain the recommendation qualification of their school based on their grades in the first three years. After the ranking was released in the first semester of her freshman year, Hou Jingyu realized that she had an advantage in applying for graduate school, so she began preparing for it. Take courses to earn points and 'brush' your GPA to a higher level. Hou Jingyu completed the compulsory courses while taking some courses with higher scores through the introduction of senior students, maintaining a score of 90 or above in each subject. "If there is a course with a score below 85, there may be problems with the recommendation for graduate studies. Participate in competition practice selectively and win national awards and grand prizes. In our college, the difference in grades between classmates may be a few tenths of a point, but the bonus points for competitions are accumulated one point at a time. If you don't have competition bonus points, the last place in the class will have a 10 point bonus point, and maybe you can directly surpass them. Provincial awards are not very useful, national awards have a relatively large bonus point. "After learning about our college's graduate recommendation policy, Hou Jingyu participated in multiple competitions and achieved the top 10 points in competition bonus points. I hope that students who are recommended for admission to other schools will invest in scientific research early on. Papers published in journals or papers that have participated in academic conferences have significant value, and research reports on university innovation projects and challenge cups have also been recognized by some universities. There is a one-day thesis defense at this summer camp at Peking University. If you don't have a thesis, you won't even be eligible to join the camp. "Hou Jingyu submitted a course paper to the school's journal, which took a year to revise and submit twice before it was included. English proficiency is also a quantifiable standard in the recommendation for postgraduate studies. CET-6 or IELTS/TOEFL are the minimum requirements for many universities to apply for postgraduate admission. Some international programs of these universities explicitly require a CET-6 score of 550 or above, and "passing the CET-6 score" is a key task for some students. Hou Jingyu has just passed the CET-6 exam, and her English is not very good. She feels very anxious and turned to taking the IELTS exam at the end of 2023. In May of this year, she scored 6.5 in the IELTS exam, which is quite thrilling. If she gets her IELTS score a little later, she won't be able to catch up with the summer camp. Graduate recommendation programs must have a plan, and there really can't be any slack Hou Jingyu looked back on her university years and expressed her feelings to a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network. In this process, the acquisition and selection of information run through the entire process, and many students believe that recommendation for graduate studies is an "information war". In the "information war" of recommendation for postgraduate studies, there was some confusion in the information. At the beginning of the decision, Hou Jingyu spent two to three thousand yuan to sign up for a full-time course at an off campus recommendation institution, but she found that the other party could not provide corresponding guidance according to the plan. In February of this year, Yan Xi, who had already been admitted to Peking University, collaborated with her classmates to establish a postgraduate recommendation coaching class. Yan Xi believes that some off campus recommendation and counseling agencies use anxiety marketing to gain more "customers", "they completely treat students as consumers without truly considering their needs". She saw on social media that some institutions are not clear about the latest situation of postgraduate recommendation, and "a lot of information is completely wrong and can mislead people". So Yan Xi decided to do tutoring by herself. Tutoring is divided into planning and knowledge categories. The former is to provide advice and review plans for students when choosing a school, while the latter is specific learning content, including explaining knowledge that is not taught in undergraduate classrooms but will be tested during postgraduate interviews, organizing the latest research hotspots and topics, and providing guidance on scientific research. In addition, Yan Xi also proofread personal statements, recommendation letters, resumes and other documents for her classmates, and provided mock interviews with pens. In Yan Xi's opinion, a student's GPA ranking is the most important. Ranking is not based on the top percentage, but on whether they are the first or second place. She explained, "Taking our school as an example, it is basically not a problem to apply for admission to Tsinghua and Peking University for the second time if they are ranked first. However, if they are ranked second, even if they are only a few points behind the first place, they will not be much different from third, fourth, or fifth place in the preliminary review stage." In the opinion of Liu Yuan, a student from a "985" school in Northeast China, the recommendation for postgraduate studies depends very much on the "background" of middle school students. "Universities are also improving their standards for students, and they can recruit 100% of" 985 "undergraduate students. How can they still recruit" 985 "students? What about '211' and 'double non'? Roughly blocking the school background is the lowest cost measure." Yang Yan, who was admitted to Xiamen University for postgraduate studies last year, believes that, We need to combine the ranking of universities with their academic performance, and if undergraduate universities are good, the ranking can be slightly relaxed. She explained that there are more recommended admission quotas for "985" universities, and students ranked 30% may also have the opportunity to apply for postgraduate admission; The offer received by students ranked first or second in the "211" or "Double Non Aligned Movement" may also be better than those ranked average in the "985". Although there are different rankings of the importance of the elements of research recommendation, most respondents believe that research recommendation is becoming increasingly difficult. Yan Xi believes that in the past, people may have had information gaps or not thought that being recommended for graduate studies was a big deal. However, now, on the one hand, the entire evaluation system regards recommendation for graduate studies as one of the best ways out. Students who plan to apply for graduate studies know that they have good grades, will win awards in competitions, and need to publish papers. On the other hand, some students believe that obtaining a graduate degree is necessary to find a good job, or they do not want to graduate with a bachelor's degree to enter the workforce. There is basically no information gap now. It seems that everyone is a hexagonal warrior with no weaknesses. If we compete at this time, the difficulty will be greater than before Yan Xi sighed. Some students have revealed that the competition for graduate school admissions beyond quantifiable factors may make the relationship between classmates "delicate". On the internet, some people express dissatisfaction with being maliciously reported or spread rumors that affect the results of graduate school admissions. Yuanqi recalled that a classmate secretly calculated her average score and ranking before the announcement of her eligibility for postgraduate recommendation, which made her feel uncomfortable due to the lack of boundaries. Wang, a junior male student from a certain "985" university in western China, wants to say that some younger students consult him for recommendation for postgraduate studies as soon as they start school, as if they have already planned for the entire four years. You Xinyu, from a non affiliated university in Beijing, stated that there are not many recommended spots for graduate programs at her college, and the competition is fierce. In addition to the preparation mentioned earlier, there should be no violations of rules and regulations during her university years. If she is reported to be true, she will lose her eligibility for graduate programs. "The uncertainty and competitive pressure of graduate programs can bring anxiety, and once there are problems in the first stage, it will be a waste," she said. You Xinyu believes that there must be a competitive relationship among classmates, but it is not necessarily vicious competition. "For example, I met two classmates in a summer camp who are from the same school, major, and dormitory, but their relationship is also good, so we cannot generalize." Wang Xiang applied for 10 summer camps and entered 4 of them, one of which was a summer camp at Shenzhen University. After the announcement of the enrollment list of Shenzhen University, which is classified as a "double non university", it was found that there were many students from "985" and "211" universities. Wang Xiang was also asked why he chose to apply to Shenzhen University. Wang wants to explain that Shenzhen University has gathered three rare advantages: "the school is wealthy, the professional strength is strong, and the region is good", which few other non double major universities can achieve. Therefore, it has attracted students from top schools to apply, "but many students who joined the school still gave up Shenzhen University in the end". In the summer camp at Shenzhen University, Wang Xiang was eliminated in the leaderless group meeting, and ultimately only received an offer from our school for the summer camp. He stated that he will continue to participate in pre admission programs, saying, 'There are still many opportunities for pre admission programs. Many people also believe that pre admission programs are more friendly than summer camps.'. Summer camp is the first opportunity for graduate students to apply for admission. Students who have achieved excellent admission or have temporarily lost can strive for more opportunities during the "pre admission" and "nine admission" stages, which only begin in September. The former is a way for universities to compete for high-quality students before formal admission, mainly through written interviews; The latter is the last opportunity for those who are recommended for graduate studies, and the "recommendation service system" will officially open at the end of September. At this time, only students who have clearly obtained the qualification for undergraduate college recommendation can participate. Life is not a life and death game full of pressure. Wang Bing, a PhD in mental health from Peking University, believes that students who are preparing to pursue a master's degree are more likely to want to gain a first mover advantage, rather than just to relieve anxiety or obtain a buffer period before entering society. "Many people say that this choice belongs to avoidance, and I don't like the word 'escape' very much. If given the opportunity to escape, I also want to find a place to stay for two years and get through a career cycle that is not conducive to myself. Pursuing a master's degree is the result of their weighing the pros and cons." "Students who excel in various aspects often hope to have the opportunity to fully utilize their talents and abilities. If the motivation for self actualization comes from within, it is a kind of self motivation, but if the pain felt in the process far outweighs the hardship and the driving force. Completely from the outside world, that's the problem," Wang Bing believes, The latter can make people completely result oriented and completely negate themselves because of the failure to secure a postgraduate entrance examination. "If we put in effort but fail to achieve the expected results, is this effort worthless? If we cannot find meaning in the process and see growth from our efforts, then the binary thinking of success and defeat will make life a life and death game full of pressure." In his work, Wang Bing often tells parents who attend lectures: "If you tell your child that only through learning can they live the life they want, then other choices except for taking the postgraduate entrance examination are equivalent to all dead ends, or in other words, except for taking the postgraduate entrance examination and civil service examination are also dead ends. The value and possibility of life are compressed by the examination. Extreme." Wang Bing pointed out that if children are instilled with the value of life and their future destiny from an early age, The happiness of life depends entirely on one thing, which is probably the biggest harm to young people. Despair often arises from the belief that life has already failed due to a single failure. Wang Bing believes that in current educational practice, we often emphasize where a student is inferior to others, that is, their weaknesses and shortcomings, but they are not very clear about their own strengths and values