美国顶尖大学对文书的特定偏好！附今年文书题目

       通过数据观察得知，布朗偏爱那些写关于志愿者经历以及一些为公众利益服务的文书，而这些在耶鲁的文书中，往往是非常少见的；除了哈佛之外，普林斯顿也喜欢那些关于战胜失败的个人经历的文书；与此同时，康奈尔大学和宾夕法尼亚大学倾向于录取那些在文书中撰写自己职业理想和抱负的学生。而关于多样性的种族或性取向的文章在斯坦福、耶鲁和布朗大学更受欢迎。根据数据显示，达特茅斯学院和哥伦比亚大学似乎并没有什么特别偏爱的主题。不过，那些涉及到人生重大转变的经历似乎频繁的出现在成功申请者的文书中。

RISK-TAKING PAYS OFF （风险与机遇并存）

       那些在大学文书的内容或结构上敢于冒险尝试的学生更容易获得成功。例如，一个被几所顶尖大学录取的学生写了他父亲对色情文学上瘾 的文章，另一个学生写的是祖父母被捕入狱，母亲被迫通过非法手段获得政府救济的故事。

       这些故事，往往在我们筛选主题时已经被过滤掉了，我们视其为敏感，隐私的选题 。但是中美文化的差异也许会成为禁锢思维的樊篱，于我们而言是隐讳，在美国文化中，却是一个有趣的题材。

同样，在文章结构上创新往往也能起到出其不意的效果。

       一位成功录取者写了一篇文章，主题围绕着 追踪他的信用卡被盗后的每一笔交易，作者新颖的将“信用卡旅程 ” 的每一点作为论文的一个单独部分，并分析每笔交易的含义。

       另一篇文章则是叙述作者 最喜欢的书 ，但不同的是，作者巧妙的把重点放在这些书是在何处被购买的，把各个购买地点绘制连接为一个新地图。

       通过更多的文书，我们发现：那些成功的文书并不是简单谈论一项取得的成就或罗列学生的履历 ， 最引人注目的文章是那些主题新颖而且有价值的。

       毫无疑问， 只有在文书写的很好的前提下，冒险才有意义。故事的内容和结构必须对申请者有更大的意义， 否则它不能达到目的。但是学生是否应该在论文中冒险，写一些内容大胆的文书，或者采用一种非传统的文书写作格式来吸引老师注意呢？

这是一个问题，学生需要知道 机遇是以承担风险为代价的。

不过我们可以确定的两点是：

第一， 申请者应当为不同的学校量身定制自己的论文， 而不是完善一篇论文并用它来申请每一所学校。

第二， 学生可以透过这些被录取的文书洞察学校的偏好与文化， “入学的学生的论文也反映了这些机构的社区” ， 并可以通过这些来判断申请者是否适合这个学校。 

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美国大学通用申请系统（Common App）

美国大学通用申请系统（Common App）通过官方账号公布了2019-2020年的申请文书题目，所公布的文书题目和2018-2019的文书题目一样，打算在2019-2020年申请美国大学的同学们可以着手准备了！

通用申请（英语：Common Application，简称Common App）是美国大学本科入学网上申请的一站式网站，是包括哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿等名校在内的美国大学（除MIT，Georgetown和加州大学之外）都接受的通用申请系统。

据Common App官方统计： 2019申请季中最常选择的三个题目为： 第2题（21.1%）、第5题（23.7%）、第7题（24.1%）。

1.Some stuents have a backgroun, ientity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application woul be incomplete without it. If this souns like you, then please share your story.

2.The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be funamental to later success. Recount a time when you face a challenge, setback, or failure. How i it affect you, an what i you learn from the experience?

3.Reflect on a time when you challenge a belief or iea. What prompte you to your thinking? What was the outcome?

4.Describe a problem you've solve or a problem you' like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a researchquery,an ethical ilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you an what steps you took or coul be taken to ientify a solution.

5.Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparke a perio of personal growth an a new unerstaning of yourself or others

6.Describe a topic, iea, or concept you fin so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why oes it captivate you? What or who o you turn to when you want to learn more?

7.Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've alreay written, one that respons to a ifferent prompt, or one of your own esign.

芝加哥大学

Question 1 (Require)

How oes the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your esire for a particular kin of learning, community, an future? Please aress with some specificity your own wishes an how they relate to UChicago.

Question 2:

Extene Essay (Require; Choose one)

Essay Option 1

Cats have nine lives, Pac-Man has 3 lives, an raioactive isotopes have half-lives. How many lives oes something else—conceptual or actual—have, an why? —Inspire by Kenrick Shin, Class of 2019

Essay Option 2

If there’s a limite amount of matter in the universe, how can Olive Garen (along with other restaurants an their concepts of foo infinity) offer truly unlimite soup, sala, an breasticks? Explain this using any metho of analysis you wish—physics, biology, economics, history, theology… the options, as you can tell, are enless. —Inspire by Yoonseo Lee, Class of 2023

Essay Option 3

A hot og might be a sanwich, an cereal might be a soup, but is a _ a ?
—Inspire by Arya Muraliharan, Class of 2021 (an ozens of others who, this year an in past years, have submitte the question “Is a hot og a sanwich,” to which we reply, “maybe”)_

Essay Option 4

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West —Inspire by Elizabeth Mansfiel, Class of 2020

Essay Option 5

UChicago has international campus centers aroun the worl, but we on’t have any interplanetary, interstellar, or interimensional campuses… yet! Propose a spot in time or space, in this or any universe, for a new UChicago campus. What types of courses woul be taught at this site? What cultural experiences await stuents who stuy there? —Inspire by Peter Jasperse, Class of 2022

Essay Option 6

“Don’t be afrai to pick past prompts! I like some of the ones from previous years more than those mae newly available for my year. Also, on’t worry about the ‘correct’ way to interpret a question. If there exists a correct way to interpret the prompt I chose, it certainly was not my answer.” —Matthew Lohrs, Class of 2023

达特茅斯学院

Essay #1 (100字以内)

While arguing a Dartmouth-relate case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1818, Daniel Webster, Class of 1801, elivere this memorable line: “It is, Sir…a small college. An yet, there are those who love it!” As you seek amission to the Class of 2024, what aspects of the College’s program, community or campus environment attract your interest?

Essay #2 (六选一，250-300字)

1.“I have no special talent,” Albert Einstein once observe. “I am only passionately curious.” Celebrate your curiosity.

2.The Hawaiian wor mo’olelois often translate as “story” but it can also refer to history, legen, genealogy, an traition. Use one of these translations to introuce yourself.

3.In the aftermath of Worl War II, Dartmouth Presient John Sloane Dickey, Class of 1929, proclaime, “The worl’s troubles are your troubles…an there is nothing wrong with the worl that better human beings cannot fix.” Which of the worl’s “troubles” inspires you to act? How might your course of stuy at Dartmouth prepare you to aress it?

4.In The Painte Drum, author Louise Errich ‘76 wrote, “… what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What fees the worl?” Tell us about something beautiful you have mae or hope to make.

5.“Yes, books are angerous,” young people’s novelist Pete Hautman proclaime. “They shoul be angerous—they contain ieas.” What book or story capture your imagination through the ieas it reveale to you? Share how those ieas influence you.

6.Labor leaer Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist who co-foune the organization now known as Unite Farm Workers. She sai, “We criticize an separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.” Speak your truth: Talk about a time when your passion became action.

加州理工学院

Essay Option 1：

Describe three experiences an/or activities that have helpe evelop your passion for a possible career in a STEM fiel. Use the separate spaces provie below, one for each STEM experience an/or activity.

STEM experience/activity 1 an explanation (10-120 字):

STEM experience/activity 2 an explanation (10-120 字):

STEM experience/activity 3 an explanation (10-120 字):

Essay Option 2：

Much like the life of a professional scientist or engineer, the life of a “Techer” relies heavily on collaboration. Knowing this, what o you hope to explore, innovate, or create with your Caltech peers? (250-400 字)

Essay Option 3：

Caltech stuents are often known for their sense of humor an creative pranks. What o you like to o for fun? (250-400 字)

Essay Option 4：

The process of iscovery best avances when people from various backgrouns, experiences, an perspectives come together. How o you see yourself contributing to the iversity of Caltech’s community? (250-400 字)

圣母大学

圣母大学要求三篇补充文书：一篇通用文书，两篇“四选二”文书，建议每篇 150字以内。

通用：

What excites you about the University of Notre Dame that makes it stan out from other institutions?

四选二：

1. As a Catholic university, we strive to be a community in which the ignity of each person is respecte an everyone can truly flourish. Notre Dame’s presient, Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C., challenge our community to reflect on the following statement: “Let us never o anything to make another member of our community feel unwelcome, an let us not stan by if we see others oing so. Either we walk together in mutual support, or we o not walk at all. Either we are all Notre Dame, or none of us are." Tell us about a time when you walke with others.

2. What is one thing you will efinitely bring to college with you?

3. What is your prouest accomplishment for which you i not receive recognition?

4. You have 150 wors. Take a risk.

塔夫茨大学

Applicants to the School of Arts an Sciences, School of Engineering, an 5-Year Tufts/NEC Combine Degree answer the following two questions:

1. Which aspects of the Tufts unergrauate experience prompt your application? In short, ‘Why Tufts?’ (100-150 wors)

2.Now we’ like to know a little more about you. Please respon to one of the following three questions. (200-250 wors):

A) From recognizing break ancing as a new Olympic sport, to representation in meia, to issues of accessibility in our public transit systems, what is something that you can talk about enlessly? What o you care about an why?

B) Whether you’ve built circuit boars or written slam poetry, create a community event or esigne mixe meia installations, tell us: What have you esigne, invente, engineere, or prouce? Or what o you hope to?

C) We all have a story to tell. An with over 5,000 unergrauate stuents on our campus, that is over 5,000 stories to share an learn. What’s yours?

Applicants to the BFA or 5-Year BFA+BA/BS Combine Degree at the SMFA at Tufts answer the following two questions:

1. Which aspects of the Tufts unergrauate experience prompt your application? Why SMFA at Tufts? (100-150 wors)

2. Art has the power to isrupt our preconceptions, shape public iscourse, an imagine new ways of being in the worl. Whether you think of Ai Weiwei’s work reframing the refugee crisis, Kehine Wiley an Amy Sheral’s portraits of the Obamas reimagining portrait painting on a national scale, or Yayoi Kusama’s fanciful Infinity Mirrors rekinling our sense of woner, it is clear that contemporary art is riven by ieas. What are the ieas you’ like to explore in your work? (200-250 wors)

弗吉尼亚大学

申请弗吉尼亚大学，除了 CA里的，还有两篇补充文书。

Essay #1：We are looking for passionate stuents to join our iverse community of scholars, researchers, an artists. Answer the question that correspons to the school/program to which you are applying in a half page or roughly 250 wors.

1.艺术与科学学院

College of Arts an Sciences - What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprise, unsettle, or challenge you, an in what way?

2. 工程与应用科学学院

School of Engineering an Applie Sciences - If you were given funing for a small engineering project that woul make everyay life better for one frien or family member, what woul you esign?

3.建筑学院

School of Architecture - Describe an instance or place where you have been inspire by architecture or esign.

4.护理学院

School of Nursing - School of Nursing applicants may have experience shaowing, volunteering, or working in a health care environment. Tell us about a health care-relate experience or another significant interaction that eepene your interest in stuying Nursing

5. 运动机能学课程

Kinesiology Program - Discuss experiences that le you to choose the kinesiology major.

Essay #2 用半页纸或大约250个单词回答下列问题之一。

1.What’s your favorite wor an why?

2.We are a community with quirks, both in language an in traitions. Describe one of your quirks an why it is part of who you are.

3.Stuent self-governance, which encourages stuent investment an initiative, is a hallmark of the UVA culture. In her fourth year at UVA, Laura Nelson was inspire to create Flash Seminars, one-time classes which facilitate high-energy iscussion about thought-provoking topics outsie of traitional coursework. If you create a Flash Seminar, what iea woul you explore an why?

4. UVA stuents paint messages on Beta Brige when they want to share information with our community. What woul you paint on Beta Brige an why is this your message

5.UVA stuents are charge with living honorably an upholing a Community of Trust. Give us an example of a community that is important to you an how you worke to strengthen that community.