申请季总是少不了为梦校准备申请材料,文书的写作和修改将会占据你的大量时间,不仅有CA、CAAS系统中的文书要求,还需要准备各个学校的附加文书。
今天小编就为大家分享一下目前2021-2022申请季已经放出补充文书信息的美国TOP30大学的相关题目。
麻省理工学院
MIT目前公布了5篇附加文书题目,如下:
1. Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? (250 words or fewer)
描述你来自的世界;例如,你的家庭、俱乐部、学校、社区、城市或城镇。这个世界是如何塑造你的梦想和愿望的?(250字或更少)
2. Pick what field of study at MIT appeals to you the most right now, and tell us more about why this field of study appeals to you. (100 words or fewer)
选择麻省理工学院的哪个研究领域现在最吸引你,并告诉我们这个研究领域更吸引你的原因。(100字或更少)
3. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (200–250 words)
我们知道你的生活很忙碌,充满了各种活动,其中许多活动是需要你的。请告诉我们其中你所做的只是为了享受其中乐趣的事情。(200-250字)
4. At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom, your neighborhood, etc. (200–250 words)
在麻省理工学院,我们将人们聚集在一起,改善他人的生活。麻省理工学院的学生以不同的方式努力改善他们的社区,从解决世界上最大的挑战到成为一个好朋友。请描述你为社区做出贡献的一种方式,无论是在你的家庭、教室、你的邻居等。(200-250字)
5. Tell us about the most significant challenge you’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200-250 words)
告诉我们你所面临的最重大的挑战或没有按计划进行的重要事情。你是如何处理这种情况的?(200-250字)
【注:还有最后一个开放式的附加信息文本框,你可以告诉我们你认为我们真正应该知道的任何其他信息。】
斯坦福大学
斯坦福大学要求新生回答申请系统中的几个问题(50词左右),并完成3篇附加文书(100-250词),题目如下:
1. The Stanford community is deeply curious and driven to learn in and out of the classroom. Reflect on an idea or experience that makes you genuinely excited about learning.
斯坦福大学对课堂内外的学习有着强烈的好奇心和动力。反思一个让你真正对学习感到兴奋的想法或经历。
2. Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate—and us—get to know you better.
几乎所有斯坦福大学的本科生都住在校园里。给你未来的室友写一张纸条,揭示你的一些情况,或帮助你的室友--以及我们--更好地了解你。
3. Tell us about something that is meaningful to you, and why?
告诉我们一些对你有意义的事情,以及为什么?
芝加哥大学
芝加哥大学除了一篇必写文书外,还需要从另外6个题目中选择并完成一篇。
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; Choose one)
1. What if the moon were made of cheese? Or Neptune made of soap? Pick a celestial object, reimagine its material composition, and explore the implications. Feel free to explore the realms of physics, philosophy, fantasy…the sky is the limit!
2. What’s so easy about pie?
3. In Homer’s Iliad, Helen had a “face that launched a thousand ships.” A millihelen, then, measures the beauty needed to launch one ship. The Sagan unit is used to denote any large quantity (in place of “billions and billions”). A New York Minute measures the period of time between a traffic light turning green and the cab behind you honking. Invent a new unit of measurement. How is it derived? How is it used? What are its equivalents?
4. "There is no such thing as a new idea" - Mark Twain. Are any pieces of art, literature, philosophy, or technology truly original, or just a different combination of old ideas? Pick something, anything (besides yourself), and explain why it is, or is not, original.
5. It's said that history repeats itself. But what about other disciplines? Choose another field (chemistry, philosophy, etc.) and explain how it repeats itself. Explain how it repeats itself.
6. In the spirit of adventurous inquiry (and with the encouragement of one of our current students!) choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun!
杜克大学
杜克大学规定了一篇必写文书,以及两篇可选文书,题目如下:
The following question is required for all 2021-22 applicants to Duke University:
Please share with us why you consider Duke a good match for you. Is there something in particular about Duke’s academic or other offerings that attract you? (200 words maximum)
The following questions are optional for all 2021-22 applicants to Duke University:
1. Duke University seeks a talented, engaged student body that embodies the wide range of human experience; we believe that the diversity of our students makes our community stronger. If you’d like to share a perspective you bring or experiences you’ve had that would help us understand you better, perhaps a community you belong to or your family or cultural background, we encourage you to do so here. Real people are reading your application, and we want to do our best to understand and appreciate the real people applying to Duke. (250 words maximum)
2. Duke’s commitment to diversity and inclusion includes sexual orientation, gender identity,and gender expression. If you would like to share with us more about your identity in these areas, you can do so here, or use any previous essay prompt you feel is appropriate. (250 words maximum)
布朗大学
布朗大学规定了3篇新生必选文书,题目如下:
1. Brown’s Open Curriculum allowsstudents to explore broadly while also diving deeply into their academic pursuits. Tell us about any academic interests that excite you, and how you might use the Open Curriculum to pursue them while also embracing topics with which you are unfamiliar. (200-250 words)
2. Brown’s culture fosters a community in which students challenge the ideas of others and have their ideas challenged in return, promoting a deeper and clearer understanding of the complex issues confronting society. This active engagement in dialogue is as present outside the classroom as it is in academic spaces. Tell us about a time you were challenged by a perspective that differed from your own. How did you respond? (200-250 words)
3. Brown students care deeply about their work and the world around them. Students find contentment,satisfaction, and meaning in daily interactions and major discoveries. Whether big or small, mundane or spectacular, tell us about something that brings you joy. (200-250 words)
埃默里大学
埃默里大学有两篇附加文书,一篇是学术兴趣方面的必答题目,另一篇则是为了加深学校对学生的了解而设置的5选1题目。
Academic Interests:
This question is required. Your response should be no more than 200 words.
What academic areas are you interested in exploring in college?
Getting to Know You:
In addition, answer one of the following questions. Your response should be no more than 150 words.
1. Reflect on a personal experience where you intentionally expanded your cultural awareness.
2. When was the last time you questioned something you had thought to be true?
3. If you could witness a historic event (past,present or future) first-hand, what would it be, and why?
4. Share about a time when you were awestruck.
5. Which book, character, song, monologue, or piece of work (fiction or non-fiction) seems made for you? Why?
乔治城大学
乔治城大学要求两篇附加文书:一篇所有申请者都要写,另一篇不同专业申请者的题目不同。没有具体字数要求,但每篇文章不能超过一页纸,且需要使用一倍行距。
Essay One 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 Two APPLICANTS TO GEORGETOWN COLLEGE:
1. APPLICANTS TO THE SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS OR THE FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS SHOULD ADDRESS THEIR CHOSEN COURSE OF STUDY:What does it mean to you to be educated? How might Georgetown College help you achieve this aim?
2. APPLICANTS TO THE SCHOOL OF NURSING & HEALTH STUDIES: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying health care. Please specifically address your intended major.
3. APPLICANTS TO THE WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE: The Walsh School of Foreign Service was founded more than a century ago to prepare generations of leaders to solve global problems. What is motivating you to dedicate your undergraduate studies to a future in service to the world?
4. 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.
密歇根大学安娜堡分校
密歇根大学要求每位学生完成两篇附加文书,题目如下:
1. 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.
2. 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?
塔夫茨大学
塔夫茨大学不同的学院和项目有不同的附加文书要求,如下。
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) It’s cool to love learning. What excites your intellectual curiosity?
B) How have the environments or experiences of your upbringing – your family, home, neighborhood, or community – shaped the person you are today?
C) Where are you on your journey of engaging with or fighting for social justice?
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. What are the ideas you’d like to explore in your work? (200-250 words)
弗罗里达大学
佛罗里达大学要求从以下11个文书题目中任选一篇完成。
You will be asked to submit one personal essay that will allow the admissions staff to get to know who you are as a person. Your essay should be limited to the word count specified by the application.
1. Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.
2. Describe a time when you made a meaningful contribution to others in which the greater good was your focus. Discuss the challenges and rewards of making your contribution.
3. Has there been a time when you've had a long-cherished or accepted belief challenged? How did you respond? How did the challenge affect your beliefs?
4. What is the hardest part of being a teenager now? What's the best part? What advice would you give a younger sibling or friend (assuming they would listen to you)?
5. Submit an essay on a topic of your choice.
6. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
7. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
8. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
9. Describe a problem you've solved or a problem you'd like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma - anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
10. Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
11. Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?