2020美本申请开启！芝大、加州理工多所名校公布补充文书题目
Common Applicaiton系统即将在下个月开放，打算申请美本2020Fall的小伙伴们，你们的文书准备好了吗？除了CA系统的文书题目，美国各大高校也在近期公布了自己的补充文书题目，其中不乏芝加哥大学、加州理工学院等知名牛校，跟随美藤国际一起看看它们的题目都是什么吧！
芝加哥大学，USNews综排第3名
Question 1 (Required)
How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago.
Question 2: Extended Essay ，Required，6选1
1. Cats have nine lives, Pac-Man has three lives, and radioactive isotopes have half-lives. How many lives does something else—conceptual or actual—have, and why?
——Inspired by Kendrick Shin, Class of 2019.
2. If there’s a limited amount of matter in the universe, how can Olive Garden (along with other restaurants and their concepts of food infinity) offer truly unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks? Explain this using any method of analysis you wish—physics, biology, economics, history, theology… the options, as you can tell, are endless.
——Inspired by Yoonseo Lee, Class of 2023.
3. A hot dog might be a sandwich, and cereal might be a soup, but is a a ?
——Inspired by Arya Muralidharan, Class of 2021 (and dozens of others who, this year and in past years, have submitted the question “Is a hot dog a sandwich,” to which we reply, “maybe”)
4. “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
——Jessamyn West Inspired by Elizabeth Mansfield, Class of 2020.
5. UChicago has international campus centers around the world, but we don’t have any interplanetary, interstellar, or interdimensional campuses… yet! Propose a spot in time or space, in this or any universe, for a new UChicago campus. What types of courses would be taught at this site? What cultural experiences await students who study there?
——Inspired by Peter Jasperse, Class of 2022
6. “Don’t be afraid to pick past prompts! I liked some of the ones from previous years more than those made newly available for my year. Also, don’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，USNews综排第12名
【Essay #1】100字以内
While arguing a Dartmouth-related case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1818, Daniel Webster, Class of 1801, delivered this memorable line: “It is, Sir…a small college. And yet, there are those who love it!” As you seek admission to the Class of 2024, what aspects of the College’s program, community or campus environment attract your interest?
【Essay #2】 6选1，250-300字
1.“I have no special talent,” Albert Einstein once observed. “I am only passionately curious.” Celebrate your curiosity.
2.The Hawaiian word mo’olelois often translated as “story” but it can also refer to history, legend, genealogy, and tradition. Use one of these translations to introduce yourself.
3.In the aftermath of World War II, Dartmouth President John Sloane Dickey, Class of 1929, proclaimed, “The world’s troubles are your troubles…and there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix.” Which of the world’s “troubles” inspires you to act? How might your course of study at Dartmouth prepare you to address it?
4.In The Painted Drum, author Louise Erdrich ‘76 wrote, “… what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?” Tell us about something beautiful you have made or hope to make.
5.“Yes, books are dangerous,” young people’s novelist Pete Hautman proclaimed. “They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.” What book or story captured your imagination through the ideas it revealed to you? Share how those ideas influenced you.
6.Labor leader Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist who co-founded the organization now known as United Farm Workers. She said, “We criticize and 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，USNews综排第12名
【Essay Option 1】
Describe three experiences and/or activities that have helped develop your passion for a possible career in a STEM field. Use the separate spaces provided below, one for each STEM experience and/or activity.
STEM experience/activity 1 and explanation (10-120 字):
STEM experience/activity 2 and explanation (10-120 字):
STEM experience/activity 3 and 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 do you hope to explore, innovate, or create with your Caltech peers? (250-400 字)
【Essay Option 3】
Caltech students are often known for their sense of humor and creative pranks. What do you like to do for fun? (250-400 字)
【Essay Option 4】
The process of discovery best advances when people from various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives come together. How do you see yourself contributing to the diversity of Caltech’s community? (250-400 字)
圣母大学，USNews综排第18名
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 stand out from other institutions?
【四选二】
1. As a Catholic university, we strive to be a community in which the dignity of each person is respected and everyone can truly flourish. Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C., challenged our community to reflect on the following statement: “Let us never do anything to make another member of our community feel unwelcome, and let us not stand by if we see others doing so. Either we walk together in mutual support, or we do not walk at all. Either we are all Notre Dame, or none of us are." Tell us about a time when you walked with others.
2. What is one thing you will definitely bring to college with you?
3. What is your proudest accomplishment for which you did not receive recognition?
4. You have 150 words. Take a risk.
埃默里大学，USNews综排第21名
Reflections“反思”
1. Share about something you want to bring from your community to the Emory University community.
分享你想从你的社区带到埃默里大学社区的东西，请分享给我们。
2. Share about a time when you questioned something that you believed to be true.
你曾经有没有质疑过某个你一度信以为真的事情？请分享给我们。
3. Emory University’s shield is a crossed torch and trumpet representing the light of learning and the proclamation of knowledge. It symbolizes our mission to impact the world through discovery. What truth or knowledge do you want to see shared?
埃默里大学的盾牌是一个交叉的火炬和小号, 代表着学习的光芒和知识的宣言。它象征着我们通过探索、发现来影响世界的使命。你希望看到什么样的真理或知识被分享？
Tell us about you
和我们聊聊你自己
1. Which book, character, song, or piece of work (fiction or non-fiction) represents you, and why?
哪本书、哪个人物、哪首歌曲或作品 (小说或非小说) 可以代表你, 为什么？
2. If you could witness a historic event first-hand, what would it be, and why?
如果你能亲眼见证一个历史性的事件, 会是什么事件, 为什么？
3. If asked to write a 150-word tweet to tell the world who you are, what would you say? (Yes, the actual Twitter character limit would likely be shorter than 150 words, but thanks for indulging us.)
如果要求你写一个150字的推特来告诉世界你是谁, 你会怎么写？(是的, 推特对文字限制在150词以内, 但感谢你包容我们。)
乔治城大学，USNews综排第22名
【短文书】
1. Indicate any special talents or skills you possess (250 words)
2. Briefly (approximately one-half page, single-spaced) discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved.
【大文书】二选一
Essay 1 – All Applicants:
As Georgetown is a diverse community, the Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you.
Essay 2 – Applicants to Georgetown College:
What does it mean to you to be educated? How might Georgetown College help you achieve this aim? (Applicants to the Sciences and Mathematics or the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics should address their chosen course of study).
Essay 2- Applicants to the School of Nursing and Health Studies:
Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying health care. Please specifically address your intended major (Health Care Management & Policy, Human Science, Global Health, or Nursing).
Essay 2- Applicants to the Walsh School of Foreign Service:
Briefly discuss a current global issue, indicating why you consider it important and what you suggest should be done to deal with it.
Essay 2- Applicants to the McDonough School of Business:
The McDonough School of Business is a national and global leader in providing graduates with essential ethical, analytical, financial and global perspectives. Please discuss your motivations for studying business at Georgetown.
弗吉尼亚大学，USNews综排第25名
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 students to join our diverse community of scholars, researchers, and artists. Answer the question that corresponds to the school/program to which you are applying in a half page or roughly 250 words.
1. 艺术与科学学院College of Arts and Sciences - What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?
2. 工程与应用科学学院School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - If you were given funding for a small engineering project that would make everyday life better for one friend or family member, what would you design?
3.建筑学院School of Architecture - Describe an instance or place where you have been inspired by architecture or design.
4.护理学院School of Nursing - School of Nursing applicants may have experience shadowing, volunteering, or working in a health care environment. Tell us about a health care-related experience or another significant interaction that deepened your interest in studying Nursing
5. 运动机能学课程Kinesiology Program - Discuss experiences that led 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 word and why?
2. We are a community with quirks, both in language and in traditions. Describe one of your quirks and why it is part of who you are.
3. Student self-governance, which encourages student investment and initiative, is a hallmark of the UVA culture. In her fourth year at UVA, Laura Nelson was inspired to create Flash Seminars, one-time classes which facilitate high-energy discussion about thought-provoking topics outside of traditional coursework. If you created a Flash Seminar, what idea would you explore and why?
4. UVA students paint messages on Beta Bridge when they want to share information with our community. What would you paint on Beta Bridge and why is this your message
5. UVA students are charged with living honorably and upholding a Community of Trust. Give us an example of a community that is important to you and how you worked to strengthen that community.
密歇根大学，USNews综排第27名
【Essay #1】适用所有申请者，100字左右
If you could only do one of the activities you have listed in the Activities section of your application, which one would you keep doing? Why?
【Essay #2】适用所有申请者，250字左右
Everyone belongs to many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that community and your place within it.
【Essay #3】适用所有申请者，500字封顶
Describe the unique qualities that attract you to the specific undergraduate College or School (including preferred admission and dual degree programs) to which you are applying at the University of Michigan. How would that curriculum support your interests?
维克森林大学，USNews综排第27名
1a. List five books you've read that intrigued you.
1a. 请列出5本引起你强烈兴趣的书
1b. As part of my high school English curriculum, I was required to read；I would like to replace it with; The required book I am most surprised I enjoyed was:
1b. 作为高中英语课程的一部分，你被要求阅读什么？你希望将要求阅读的书改成什么？那本书你惊讶地发现喜欢阅读？
1c. Tell us how a work of fiction you’ve read has helped you to understand the world’s complexity
1c. 请和我们分享帮助你理解世界复杂性的小说。
2. What piques your intellectual curiosity, and why?
2. 什么能引起你的学术好奇心，为什么？
3. As part of our “Voices of Our Time” series — which allows students, faculty, and staff to hear from some of the world’s leading thinkers — Wake Forest has hosted Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander, Eboo Patel, and Thomas Friedman. If you could choose the next series speaker, whom would you pick, and why?
3. 作为我们的“时代声音”系列的部分，该系列讲座允许学生、教职员工可以听到世界领先思想家的声音，维克森林大学邀请一些名人来到大学演讲。如果你可以选择下一个讲座系列演讲人，你会选择谁？为什么？
4. Give us your top ten list.
4. 给出你的TOP10名单
5. At Wake Forest, we gather our students in “Calls to Conversation,” congregating small groups around dinner tables in faculty’s and administrators’ homes to discuss topics organized around a theme, for example “arts for social change,” “gender in society,” and “leading a meaningful life.” If you could design a theme for a “Call to Conversation,” what would you choose, and why?
5. 在维克森林，我们将学生集中起来参与“号召对话”活动，让学生分成小组围坐在教职员工家里的饭桌旁边区讨论有主题的话题，例如“社会变革的艺术”、"社会中的性别“以及”如何过有意义的生活“。如果你可以为这样的活动涉及一个主题，你会选择什么？为什么？
6. We live in an age intensely interested in heroes. Professor Joseph Campbell defined “hero” as “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Describe a hero in public life and how and why, in your opinion, they meet Professor Campbell’s definition.
6. 我们生活在一个对英雄非常感兴趣的一个时代。Joseph Campbell教授讲英雄定义为讲他或者她的生命贡献给了比自己更加有意义的事情。描述一个在公共生活的英雄人，然后使用自己的观点来阐述如何以及为什么这些英雄人物符合Campbell的定义。
7. (大作文）We are all different, and our lived experiences – influenced by our culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or religion – shape our understanding of the world. How have your experiences shaped your development, and how do you plan to use those experiences to interact and engage with others who might be different from you within our Wake Forest community?
7. 我们是不同的，我们被文化、种族、族裔、性别、性倾向、或者/以及宗教影响的生活体验塑造了我们对世界的理解。你觉得你的生活经历如何影响了你的发展以及你如何使用这样的经历去和也许经历和你很不同的维克森林大学的同学们互动和相互学习？
塔夫茨大学，USNews综排第27名
Applicants to the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, and 5-Year Tufts/NEC Combined Degree answer the following two questions:
1. Which aspects of the Tufts undergraduate experience prompt your application? In short, ‘Why Tufts?’ (100-150 words)
2. Now we’d like to know a little more about you. Please respond to one of the following three questions. (200-250 words):
A) From recognizing break dancing as a new Olympic sport, to representation in media, to issues of accessibility in our public transit systems, what is something that you can talk about endlessly? What do you care about and why?
B) Whether you’ve built circuit boards or written slam poetry, created a community event or designed mixed media installations, tell us: What have you designed, invented, engineered, or produced? Or what do you hope to?
C) We all have a story to tell. And with over 5,000 undergraduate students on our campus, that is over 5,000 stories to share and learn. What’s yours?
Applicants to the BFA or 5-Year BFA+BA/BS Combined Degree at the SMFA at Tufts answer the following two questions:
1. Which aspects of the Tufts undergraduate experience prompt your application? Why SMFA at Tufts? (100-150 words)
2. Art has the power to disrupt our preconceptions, shape public discourse, and imagine new ways of being in the world. Whether you think of Ai Weiwei’s work reframing the refugee crisis, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s portraits of the Obamas reimagining portrait painting on a national scale, or Yayoi Kusama’s fanciful Infinity Mirrors rekindling our sense of wonder, it is clear that contemporary art is driven by ideas. What are the ideas you’d like to explore in your work? (200-250 words)
北卡教堂山分校，USNews综排第30名
四选二，200-250字以内。
1. Tell us about a peer who has made a difference in your life.
2. What do you hope will change about the place where you live?
3. What is one thing that we don’t know about you that you want us to know?
4. What about your background, or what perspective, belief, or experience, will help you contribute to the education of your classmates at UNC?
波士顿学院，USNews综排第38名
波士顿学院2019-20申请周期补充文书题目四选一，限制 400字以内。
【Essay Option 1】
Great art evokes a sense of wonder. It nourishes the mind and spirit. Is there a particular song, poem, speech, or novel from which you have drawn insight or inspiration?
【Essay Option 2】
When you choose a college, you will join a new community of people who have different backgrounds, experiences, and stories. What is it about your background, your experiences, or your story, that will enrich Boston College’s community?
【Essay Option 3】
Boston College strives to provide an undergraduate learning experience emphasizing the liberal arts, quality teaching, personal formation, and engagement of critical issues. If you had the opportunity to create your own college course, what enduring question or contemporary problem would you address and why?
【Essay Option 4】
Jesuit education considers the liberal arts a pathway to intellectual growth and character formation. What beliefs and values inform your decisions and actions today, and how will Boston College assist you in becoming a person who thinks and acts for the common good?
杜兰大学，USNews综排第44名
Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences. (250 words)
Please describe why you are interested in attending Tulane University (optional) (50-800 words)
佐治亚大学，2019QS世界排名第5名
Question 1 (必选)
The college admissions process can create anxiety. In an attempt to make it less stressful, please tell us an interesting or amusing story about yourself from your high school years that you have not already shared in your application.
Question 2 (四选一）
1.UGA’s 2017 Commencement speaker Ernie Johnson (Class of ’79) told a story from his youth about what he refers to as blackberry moments. He has described these as “the sweet moments that are right there to be had but we’re just too focused on what we’re doing …, and we see things that are right there within our reach and we neglect them. Blackberry moments can be anything that makes somebody else’s day, that makes your day, that are just sweet moments that you always remember.” Tell us about one of your “blackberry moments” from the past five years.
2. What is the hardest part of being a teenager now? What is the best part? What advice would you give to a younger sibling or friend (assuming they would listen to you)?
3. Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.
4. Describe a problem, possibly related to your area of study, which you would like to solve. Explain its importance to you and what actions you would take to solve this issue.
德州大学奥斯汀分校，USNews综排第49名
【主文书】500-700 words
Tell us your story. What unique opportunities or challenges have you experienced throughout your high school career that have shaped who you are today?
【短文书】250-300 words
1.Why are you interested in the major you indicated as your first-choice major?
2.Leadership can be demonstrated in many ways. Please share how you have demonstrated leadership in either your school, job, community, and/or within your family responsibilities.
3.Please share how you believe your experiences, perspectives, and/or talents have shaped your ability to contribute to and enrich the learning environment at UT Austin, both in and out of the classroom.
维拉诺瓦大学，USNews综排第49名
Submit one Villanova essay from the three choices below (250-1,000 words)
1.In the spirit of Saint Augustine, we believe that everyone in the Villanova community learns from each other. What is a lesson that you have learned in your life so far that you will share with others?
2.You may live in one of the busiest cities in all the world or come from a small town with just one traffic light. The place that you call home has probably shaped who you are in some way. Tell us about where you are from and what, from there, you will bring to Villanova.
3.Please describe a choice for change that you have made in your life that has greatly affected your life or the lives of others.
华盛顿大学，USNews综排第59名
REQUIRED
◆ Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it. (500 words)
◆ Our families and communities often define us and our individual worlds. Community might refer to your cultural group, extended family, religious group, neighborhood or school, sports team or club, co-workers, etc. Describe the world you come from and how you, as a product of it, might add to the diversity of the UW. (300 words)
OPTIONAL
You are not required to write anything in this section, but you may include additional information if something has particular significance to you. For example, you may use this space if:
◆ You have experienced personal hardships in attaining your education
◆ Your activities have been limited because of work or family obligations
◆ You have experienced unusual limitations or opportunities unique to the schools you attended
加州大学系统
加州大学申请系统提供 8个 Essay题目，任选 4个回答，每个不得超过 350字。题目任意选择，无好坏之分，也不会影响录取结果。
【Essay Option 1】
Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes or contributed to group efforts over time.
【Essay Option 2】
Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side.
【Essay Option 3】
What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time?
【Essay Option 4】
Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.
【Essay Option 5】
Describe the most significant challenge you havefaced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has thischallenge affected your academic achievement?
【Essay Option 6】
Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom.
【Essay Option 7】
What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?
【Essay Option 8】
Beyond what has already been shared in your application, what do you believe makes you stand out as a strong candidate for admissions to the University of California?