文书解读-达特茅斯

文书题目

Dartmouth celebrates the ways in which its profound sense of place informs its profound sense of purpose. As you seek admission to Dartmouth's Class of 2027, what aspects of the College's academic program, community, or campus environment attract your interest? In short, Why Dartmouth? Please respond in 100 words or fewer.

"Be yourself," Oscar Wilde advised. "Everyone else is taken." Introduce yourself in 200-250 words.

A. Labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta recommended a life of purpose. "We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things," she said. "That is what we are put on the earth for." In what ways do you hope to make—or are you making—an impact?

B. What excites you?

C. In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba '14 reflects on constructing a windmill from recycled materials to power electrical appliances in his family's Malawian house: "If you want to make it, all you have to do is try." What drives you to create and what do you hope to make or have you made?

D. Dr. Seuss, aka Theodor Geisel of Dartmouth's Class of 1925, wrote, "Think and wonder. Wonder and think." What do you wonder and think about?

E. "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced," wrote James Baldwin. How does this quote apply to your life experiences?

达特茅斯的第一道短问答是一道经典的why school题目 ，然而它的难点是仅仅100字的字数。

第二道题也是一道看似传统的“介绍你自己”类的题目 ，然而题眼中对于奥斯卡王尔德的引用，则透露出了 达特茅斯关注人文气息和文学背景的小心机 。

第三道五选一的开放性题目 之中，达特茅斯引经据典，对于各种人权活动家、作家和有独特背景学生的原文引用，同样也体现了达特茅斯申请之中最注重的一个亮点，那就是学生本身的人文底蕴和哲思。

达特茅斯这样的题目之中，无处不体现对于人文艺术领域关怀的学校，我们一定要“见人下菜碟”，打造出一个符合他们对于自己学生团体畅想的学生形象，才能够投其所好。