斯坦福大学

斯坦福大学要求新生 按照学校规定在申请系统中回答几个问题 （50词左右）。除此之外，还需要根据学校给出的问题 写出三个100-250词的Essay 。

We ask applicants to answer several short questions (limit 50 wors each), an to write a short essay on each of the three topics below.

Short Essay Questions

There is a 100-wor minimum an a 250-wor maximum for each essay.

1. The Stanfor community is eeply curious an riven to learn in an out of the classroom. Reflect on an iea or experience that makes you genuinely excite about learning.
2. Virtually all of Stanfor's unergrauates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate—an us—get to know you better.
3. Tell us about something that is meaningful to you, an why?

芝加哥大学

芝加哥文书题目素以 脑洞大开 著称， 除了必须写的一篇文书之外，另一篇optional的prompt非常有意思，且每年更新 。以下是今年的选项：

Essay Option 1

What if the moon were mae of cheese? Or Neptune mae of soap? Pick a celestial object, reimagine its material composition, an explore the implications. Feel free to explore the realms of physics, philosophy, fantasy…the sky is the limit!

Essay Option 2

What’s so easy about pie?

Essay Option 3

In Homer’s Ilia, Helen ha a “face that launche a thousan ships.” A millihelen, then, measures the beauty neee to launch one ship. The Sagan unit is use to enote any large quantity (in place of “billions an billions”). A New York Minute measures the perio of time between a traffic light turning green an the cab behin you honking. Invent a new unit of measurement. How is it erive? How is it use? What are its equivalents?

Essay Option 4

"There is no such thing as a new iea" - Mark Twain. Are any pieces of art, literature, philosophy, or technology truly original, or just a ifferent combination of ol ieas? Pick something, anything (besies yourself), an explain why it is, or is not, original.

Essay Option 5

It's sai that history repeats itself. But what about other isciplines? Choose another fiel (chemistry, philosophy, etc.) an explain how it repeats itself. Explain how it repeats itself.