hanala
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I want to apply for International Business in Denmark and they ask for a letter of motivation that contains:
"Your contribution: What can you contribute to the degree with regards to your background and experience and what will you get out of the international environment of the degree programme?
Your motivation: Why do you wish to study this degree programme?
Your career plans: what are your future plans and how can the degree programme help you to achieve your goals?"
Thank you in advance for checking for any grammar/spelling/sentence construction mistakes and also do you think the content is too personal? I want to stick out of the other candidates and I thought it showed "my contribute to the degree with regards to my background and experience" and also I thought it would be good to tell something about me experience abroad. Let me know what you think!
Dear Sir or Madam,
with this letter I would like to highlight my interest for your Bachelor program of „International business“ and my very personal motivation to study in Denmark at the XXX.
Some say people either are born to be a leader or not. But from my personal experience i can say that people grow into being leaders. I remember being in primary school and being a very shy, silent and unpopular little girl. I started school one year earlier than normal and therefore have always been the youngest, the smallest and one of the smartest which was not the best combination for making a lot of friends. With very low self-confidence but great optimism about times getting better I started secondary school. The first years still were difficult but I finally made real friends and started developing confidence about who I am and what I was doing. I chose that very certain school because it was a musician one and I have always been very interested and talented in playing the piano, the violin, singing and drawing. Those talents actually helped me a lot in developing self-confidence as the people in my school rated me very high for my skills and I started winning several competitions. The many friendships I had were true and I would take over the part of the responsible and rational one. Although I still was the youngest I was earning lots of respect from my classmates not only for my music but especially for the kindness, reliability and patience I stood for as a friend.
But when in year 11 I had the urge to try something new and challenge myself even if that meant to leave everything behind. Therefore I decided to take a big step towards my own independence and to become a boarder at XXX, UK. I took the A-Levels in Maths, Biology, Arts and Philosophy to be able to concentrate on less subjects but more in depth. I liked the high standard and to earn solid knowledge. After being confronted with my first couple of exams i started doubting if the british school system worked for me. I am very good at finding a way to solve problems without any guidance and to think independently and different so that I did not like the way of reciting pre-learned answers to pre-known questions. I eventually decided that for me the german way of educating worked the best where my differentiated way of thinking really was appreciated and approved. I represented my house one last time in the school’s music competition and won the category „solo“ for playing the piano which was definitely one of the proudest moments in my life. But after all, I decided to return to Germany to finish my Abitur after seven months of living and studying in Great Britain. This time abroad still was one of the best experiences I have ever made. Being part of a house community, learning a new language, finding new friends from all over the world and being responsible for my own life without having parents near who look after me made me a lot more mature and showed me where I wanted to go and what my goals in life are.
This curiosity and the want of new experiences and challenges is still burning inside of me which is why it was always clear for me that one day I will study abroad and probably even emigrate. Scandinavia in general fascinates me but especially Denmark and XXX with its great diversity, the global thinking and the open-mindedness fits perfectly to me. I have heard a lot about the XXX and would love to be part of it. I turned from that shy girl into a grown adult with many great ideas and no fear of taking self-initiative. I know about my strengths and weaknesses and am extremely motivated to change, create and inspire. As a child from a successful entrepreneur-family I know about the struggles and issues a modern company has to deal with but I also know that with creativity, hard work and future-orientated thinking great things can be achieved. I could have easily gone with my dad’s business but I want to do things and reach my personal goals independently on my own and not to take the easy way. My very personal concern is to focus on the sustainability of todays companies. In my opinion it is as important as it has never been before to support local businesses and to use globalization to connect people to work together. Every single human being takes major responsibility about planet earth and its people and I have the dream that one day I will be in a powerful position where I can change things, such as improving the use of regenerative resources and therefore take part in making the world a better place for our future generations.
Not only that the program will teach me how international markets work and how to responsibly manage a company but it also offers the great opportunity take part in the XXX double exchange program which is very attractive and unique to me. I want to learn as much as possible about other countries and cultures on an economic level in order to be able to represent and work for a company global.
As one of Europe’s best Business Schools I think XXX will be the perfect place for me to have all the opportunities I need to develop those leadership-skills on an international level that I will need to follow my goals and not to lose track of them.
I hope that I could express my great personal motivation to study „International Business“ as a Bachelor Degree’s Program and look forward to your positive response.
Yours faithfully,
H.B.
"Your contribution: What can you contribute to the degree with regards to your background and experience and what will you get out of the international environment of the degree programme?
Your motivation: Why do you wish to study this degree programme?
Your career plans: what are your future plans and how can the degree programme help you to achieve your goals?"
Thank you in advance for checking for any grammar/spelling/sentence construction mistakes and also do you think the content is too personal? I want to stick out of the other candidates and I thought it showed "my contribute to the degree with regards to my background and experience" and also I thought it would be good to tell something about me experience abroad. Let me know what you think!
Dear Sir or Madam,
with this letter I would like to highlight my interest for your Bachelor program of „International business“ and my very personal motivation to study in Denmark at the XXX.
Some say people either are born to be a leader or not. But from my personal experience i can say that people grow into being leaders. I remember being in primary school and being a very shy, silent and unpopular little girl. I started school one year earlier than normal and therefore have always been the youngest, the smallest and one of the smartest which was not the best combination for making a lot of friends. With very low self-confidence but great optimism about times getting better I started secondary school. The first years still were difficult but I finally made real friends and started developing confidence about who I am and what I was doing. I chose that very certain school because it was a musician one and I have always been very interested and talented in playing the piano, the violin, singing and drawing. Those talents actually helped me a lot in developing self-confidence as the people in my school rated me very high for my skills and I started winning several competitions. The many friendships I had were true and I would take over the part of the responsible and rational one. Although I still was the youngest I was earning lots of respect from my classmates not only for my music but especially for the kindness, reliability and patience I stood for as a friend.
But when in year 11 I had the urge to try something new and challenge myself even if that meant to leave everything behind. Therefore I decided to take a big step towards my own independence and to become a boarder at XXX, UK. I took the A-Levels in Maths, Biology, Arts and Philosophy to be able to concentrate on less subjects but more in depth. I liked the high standard and to earn solid knowledge. After being confronted with my first couple of exams i started doubting if the british school system worked for me. I am very good at finding a way to solve problems without any guidance and to think independently and different so that I did not like the way of reciting pre-learned answers to pre-known questions. I eventually decided that for me the german way of educating worked the best where my differentiated way of thinking really was appreciated and approved. I represented my house one last time in the school’s music competition and won the category „solo“ for playing the piano which was definitely one of the proudest moments in my life. But after all, I decided to return to Germany to finish my Abitur after seven months of living and studying in Great Britain. This time abroad still was one of the best experiences I have ever made. Being part of a house community, learning a new language, finding new friends from all over the world and being responsible for my own life without having parents near who look after me made me a lot more mature and showed me where I wanted to go and what my goals in life are.
This curiosity and the want of new experiences and challenges is still burning inside of me which is why it was always clear for me that one day I will study abroad and probably even emigrate. Scandinavia in general fascinates me but especially Denmark and XXX with its great diversity, the global thinking and the open-mindedness fits perfectly to me. I have heard a lot about the XXX and would love to be part of it. I turned from that shy girl into a grown adult with many great ideas and no fear of taking self-initiative. I know about my strengths and weaknesses and am extremely motivated to change, create and inspire. As a child from a successful entrepreneur-family I know about the struggles and issues a modern company has to deal with but I also know that with creativity, hard work and future-orientated thinking great things can be achieved. I could have easily gone with my dad’s business but I want to do things and reach my personal goals independently on my own and not to take the easy way. My very personal concern is to focus on the sustainability of todays companies. In my opinion it is as important as it has never been before to support local businesses and to use globalization to connect people to work together. Every single human being takes major responsibility about planet earth and its people and I have the dream that one day I will be in a powerful position where I can change things, such as improving the use of regenerative resources and therefore take part in making the world a better place for our future generations.
Not only that the program will teach me how international markets work and how to responsibly manage a company but it also offers the great opportunity take part in the XXX double exchange program which is very attractive and unique to me. I want to learn as much as possible about other countries and cultures on an economic level in order to be able to represent and work for a company global.
As one of Europe’s best Business Schools I think XXX will be the perfect place for me to have all the opportunities I need to develop those leadership-skills on an international level that I will need to follow my goals and not to lose track of them.
I hope that I could express my great personal motivation to study „International Business“ as a Bachelor Degree’s Program and look forward to your positive response.
Yours faithfully,
H.B.
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