杨同学，某市排名前十的中学，TOEFL92，SATⅠ1700+，SATⅡ2100+，GPA: 93/100，被霍山女子学院（$24000+/年奖学金）录取，文理学院本科
美勤点评：这个学生并没有参加过特别大型的活动，也没有特别出彩的特长。而这个案例的成功之处就在挖掘了学生的很小的但是很独特的经历，展现出了她强烈的责任感、百折不挠的韧性、勇气、和把知识运用于实践的能力，使这些特质与学校的录取准则完美契合，从而使申请者脱颖而出，成为了黑马。
霍山女子学院
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is a member of theSeven Sisters and is one of the oldest women's colleges in the United States. It was the first of the Seven Sisters and served as a model for some of the others. Mount Holyoke is part of the Pioneer Valley's Five College Consortium, along with Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The school was originally founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. It received its collegiate charter in 1888 as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College and became Mount Holyoke College in 1893. Mount Holyoke's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established in 1905.
Mount Holyoke was designed and landscaped between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted and Sons. It is also home to a Donald Ross-designed 18-hole golf course, The Orchards, which served as host to the U.S. Women's Open Championship in 2004. In 2009, Forbes rated it 47th in America's Best Colleges. U.S. News and World Report lists Mount Holyoke as the 26th best liberal arts college in the United States in its 2011 rankings. Mount Holyoke was also ranked #1 in the nation for Best Classroom Experience in the Princeton Review 2010-2011