Never go with the wind when you should fly against it

Youth Representative of G20 SMART Innovation Forum

Co-founder of Low Carbon Workshop C-Future

Member of the Chinese Delegation of the World Youth Forum

National Outstanding Award of Voice of the Future, APEC

Excellent Student of the Year of WKU

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Chen Pengda, with multiple titles, has a GPA of 3.98/4. He has won the scholarship of Zhejiang Provincial Government and Dean Academic Scholarship for three consecutive years. Because of his excellent comprehensive quality and performance, he was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Student, 2019 Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province, the School Leadership & Public Service Scholarship, and School Culture, Art and Sports Scholarship. With his own actions, he tells us that youth has infinite possibilities and how to make ordinary days splendid.

Self-discipline is as natural as breathing

Because of his business family background and his intention to study abroad, Chen entered WKU’s Finance major with outstanding achievements. He said that as a Sino-foreign cooperative university, in addition to internationalized teachers and courses, WKU has provided an independent platform. For him, self-discipline learning, self-development and self-efforts are the most important.

He has always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm for learning and life, and has a strong ability of time planning and self-discipline. He has his own pace of learning, takes control of time, and strives to improve time utilization. The “paranoia” of time allows him to seize every wonderful opportunity and moment. In terms of study, he suggests that younger students should be able to preview before class and understand relevant knowledge points from the first perspective; be brave to put forward their own ideas in class and actively interact with professors; review after class and review efficiently.

Collecting “No.1” Expert

Chen Pengda is keen on practical activities. He has been involved in various activities, such as the 5th World Internet Conference·Digital Economy and Capital Market Integration Development Forum, Voice of the Future Youth Innovation Forum, APEC, Indonesia International Volunteer of Seeds of Hope Children’s Home, Zhejiang-New Jersey STEM Innovation Education Forum. His vision determines his realm. He has constantly walked out of the comfort zone, creating many firsts in WKU, which can be described as collecting “No.1” expert.

/WKU’s First Student of Ziya Xuegong Academy/

Chen has entrepreneurial spirit and is keen on innovation and entrepreneurship. In June 2019, he went to Xi’an to attend the first Chinese Entrepreneurs Special Training Camp of Ziya Xuegong Academy in 2019, listened to lectures from business leaders such as Feng Lun, LV Jianzhong and Yi Peng, and studied entrepreneurship management. As the youngest student in the special training camp, he grew as he communicated with these excellent entrepreneurs in China. He accelerated his growth in the communication with these senior partners. Therefore, he naturally has a deeper thinking power and a broader vision than his peers, and also accumulates resources and contacts for future entrepreneurship.

/ WKU’s First Student at Tsingling College /

In October 2018, Chen Pengda became WKU’s first student who was successfully selected into Tsingling College. The project aims to cultivate future business leaders and management elites in China. In Tsingling, he grew up with famous Chinese entrepreneurs and management elites and took the world’s top business management courses. Chen is very grateful to Tsingling College, and has been practicing the spirit of “being realistic and pragmatic”.

/WKU’s First T-Lab Lifelong Alumni/

Chen Pengda was very interested in venture capital and participated in T-LAB, a venture capital school with angel investment as the main course and a life-long educational system. Chen shared that the T-LAB experience is a particularly memorable experience and a journey that will accompany him for life. In T-Lab, you cannot only gain venture capital knowledge, but also a group of warm friends. He said he wanted to make the world a better place, whether through entrepreneurship or investment.

/WKU’s First Member of the Global Youth Entrepreneur Community/

Chen Pengda is committed to combining the concept of business innovation and sustainable development. He founded “C-future Low Carbon Workshop” and served as the co-founder. He went to Shanghai in August 2018 to attend the YSI China Innovation Summit for roadshow, and won the YSI China seed round investment. He is committed to business improvement, and has successively participated in the green entrepreneurship camp and the workshop jointly organized by Impact Hub and B Corps China, hoping to use the power of business to bring positive influence to the society.

Because I believe, I see

Chen Pengda, who is determined to study abroad, has received graduate offers from five top universities in the world, including Duke University, National University of Singapore, University College London, Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University (half Award), and is still waiting for the offer of dream university. Chen said, “It’s important to adjust your mentality during the application season. Application is a metaphysics. You don’t know the specific reason why you are rejected, so try your best to do everything without regret. ”

/Holistic view – Overall Plan/

Chen Pengda said that when he applied for colleges and universities, he comprehensively analyzed the target schools, target majors, target programs, employment directions, etc., arranged the target colleges, stepped back step by step to improve the background, and tried his best to approach the application direction, including educational background, internship, research, practical experience of extracurricular activities and international experience. Chen Pengda’s experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital, branding, management and other internships and activities helped him a lot.

/Specific View – Major and College Selection/

Chen Pengda said that the whole application will be very rewarding if you do it yourself, and it will also be a good opportunity for self-awareness. For example, choosing a school, spending time on the school’s official website to learn about the program, and choosing the program that suits you and is interested in. It will be helpful for writing papers and interviews later. At the same time, he suggested that when choosing a major, we should open our eyes appropriately, do not have to focus on a particular major. The school selection adopts a stratified strategy and basically chooses about 2 guaranteed schools. Then you can apply boldly and try the rest of the schools bravely.

Chen believes that “only by breaking the circle can we get our own life script.” Looking back on the four years of university, Chen said that his biggest achievement is to grow independently. He hoped that young students could enjoy the university time, dare to make mistakes, pursue dreams bravely, and may blossom accompany them all the way forward.