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　　2017-2018 Common Application Essay(主文书，7选1)

　　1. 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.

　　——万金油题目，写出自己独特的点就可以，也是往年同学选择最多的一个题目

　　2. 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?

　　——写一件具体的挑战，重点要放在你获得的成长上，可以选择活动或生活中的一件事来写，也是往年大家选择比较多的一个题目

　　3. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?

　　——很能体现critical thinking的题目，但是由于限定的范围较小，一般人较难写出有足够深度的文章

　　4. 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.

　　——跟题目2有点像，但是包含的范围更广，更注重解决问题的办法

　　5. Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

　　——写一件让你重新认识自己的事情。短时间或有一件小事引发的蜕变不太常见，所以比较难写

　　6. 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?

　　——写你感兴趣的话题。可以写学术方面的，也可以引申到比较有高度的理论

　　7. Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.

　　——自选题目

　　2017-2018 Coalition Application 文书题目

　　1. Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

　　——讲一个对你意义重大的故事，体现你的性格

　　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.

　　——以对他人的贡献为主题，可以很好的体现empathy。故事的选择要有独特性和深度，千篇一律的志愿者活动就不要写了

　　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?

　　——跟commonapp的题目类似，体现critcal thinking

　　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)?

　　——这个题目的问法稍微有点散，怎样把它写成一篇完整流畅的文章还是需要更多的思考

　　5. Submit an essay on a topic of your choice.

　　——自选题目

　　Georgetown University

　　Short Essay: Briefly discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved. (approximately one-half page)

　　——活动文书

　　Compose two brief essays (approximately one page single-spaced each) on the topics given below.

　　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.

　　——类似主文书题目，自由度很高，重点是展现自己的性格。可以跟主文书配合展现自己的不同方面，也可以再次印证主文书的主题

　　2. (四选一)Applicants to Georgetown College: Please relate your interest in studying at Georgetown University to your goals. How do these thoughts relate to your chosen course of study? (If you are applying to major in the FLL or in a Science, please specifically address those interests.)

　　Applicants to the School of Nursing & Health Studies: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying health care at Georgetown University. Please specifically address your intended major (Health Care Management & Policy, Human Science, International Health, or Nursing).

　　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.

　　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.

　　——这是一篇why major文书，要把自己的学术兴趣、过往成就、和你将如何利用学校资源以及为学校做贡献写出来

　　Georgia Institute of Technology

　　1. Beyond rankings, location, and athletics, why are you interested in attending Georgia Tech? (max 150 words)

　　——这是一篇why school essay，根据题目中给定的限制，可以入手的点可以有：学校的办学理念、学术成就(具体的教授、课、研究等等)、课外活动或社团和学校community的氛围(夸夸它supportive啊什么的)。注意不要光夸学校，还要联系到自身，讲一讲为什么你适合这所学校。

　　2.(3选1)Please choose ONE of the following questions and provide an answer in 150 words or less.

　　Tech’s motto is Progress and Service. We find that students who ultimately have a broad impact first had a significant one at home. What is your role in your immediate or extended family? And how have you seen evidence of your impact on them?

　　——这个题目比较特别，没有涉及到学校或社会活动，而是把主题定位到了家庭上，可以写对家庭做出的贡献。不一定要有什么重大的贡献，潜移默化的改变也可以

　　Georgia Tech is always looking for innovative undergraduates. Have you had any experience as an entrepreneur? What would you like Georgia Tech to provide to further your entrepreneurial interests?

　　——这又是一个独特且限定范围很小的题目。表面上是要写你的创业经历，实际上在高中办活动、创办社团等等可以体现创新精神的事情都可以写。

　　We challenge our students to "be comfortable being uncomfortable". Tell us about a time in high school that you felt outside of your comfort zone and the resolution.

　　——走出舒适区这个主题算是比较常见的，可以写你的一次尝试和你的感受与收获

　　Johns Hopkins University

　　Successful students at Johns Hopkins make the biggest impact by collaborating with others, including peers, mentors, and professors. Talk about a time, in or outside the classroom, when you worked with others and what you learned from the experience. (Up to 400 words).

　　——讲一次合作的经历。可以突出leadership、与他人相处的能力等等。字数充足，可以详细写写主活动。

　　Princeton University

　　1. Activities: Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences that was particularly meaningful to you. (Response required in about 150 words.)

　　——活动小短文，大学自选文书中最常见的之一。可以从暑假开始准备，多多打磨，在很多地方都会用到。

　　2. Summers: Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers (or vacations between school years), including any jobs you have held. (Response required in about 150 words.)

　　——夏校、实习、活动等等，注意不要跟活动文书重复了，要安排一下这两篇文书的内容

　　3. A Few Details：

　　Your favorite book and its author

　　Your favorite website

　　Your favorite recording

　　Your favorite source of inspiration

　　Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title

　　Your favorite movie

　　Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you

　　Your favorite keepsake or memento

　　Your favorite word

　　——其实不算文书啦，就是填空题。没有标准答案，也不要妄图揣度招生官想要看到什么，就展示真实的自己就好，毕竟玄学这东西谁也说不清楚。

　　4. Essay: Your Voice(4选1)

　　In addition to the essay you have written for the Common Application or the Universal College Application, please write an essay of about 500 words (no more than 650 words and no fewer than 250 words). Using one of the themes below as a starting point, write about a person, event or experience that helped you define one of your values or in some way changed how you approach the world. Please do not repeat, in full or in part, the essay you wrote for the Common Application or Universal College Application.

　　Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way.

　　——写一个对你影响很大的人，可以是父母、师长，也可以是一个同伴。

　　“One of the great challenges of our time is that the disparities we face today have more complex causes and point less straightforwardly to solutions.”

　　Omar Wasow, assistant professor of politics, Princeton University and co-founder of Blackplanet.com. This quote is taken from Professor Wasow’s January 2014 speech at the Martin Luther King Day celebration at Princeton University.

　　——这个题目出自一个演讲，有兴趣的同学可以去看看演讲的全文，可能会得到一定的启发。

　　“Culture is what presents us with the kinds of valuable things that can fill a life. And insofar as we can recognize the value in those things and make them part of our lives, our lives are meaningful.” Gideon Rosen, Stuart Professor of Philosophy and director of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows, Princeton University.

　　——以culture为主题。作为国际生，最常见的写法就是中国传统文化对你的影响了。注意重点不是要你详细讲解我国国粹，而是讲文化和你个人特质之间的联系。

　　Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation, title and author at the beginning of your essay.

　　——万金油题目，唯一特别一点的就是要给你的故事找一个比较合适的quotation作为引子。

　　5. Engineering Essay

　　If you are interested in pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, please write a 300-500 word essay describing why you are interested in studying engineering, any experiences in or exposure to engineering you have had and how you think the programs in engineering offered at Princeton suit your particular interests. *This essay is required for students who indicate Bachelor of Science in Engineering as a possible degree of study on their application.

　　——工科学生专享的why major文书，关于why major的写法之前介绍过了。

　　University of California

　　Directions: You will have 8 questions to choose from. You must respond to only 4 of the 8 questions. Each response is limited to a maximum of 350 words. Which questions you choose to answer is entirely up to you: But you should select questions that are most relevant to your experience and that best reflect your individual circumstances.(8选4)

　　Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes or contributed to group efforts over time.

　　——主题为leadership，可以写活动

　　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.

　　——主题为creativity，可以写艺术文学相关的，也可以写学术，还可以讲活动中如何有创造力地解决问题

　　What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time?

　　——主题为talent，可以想一想你跟别人相比有哪一点最突出

　　Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.

　　——一次具体的学术机会或者困难，可以写一次课题研究、一场讲座、或者一次讨论

　　Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

　　——主题为挑战，注意prompt明确限定了"academic achievement”

　　Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom.

　　——why major文书

　　What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?

　　——你如何把学校和身边的社区变得更好，志愿者活动、你在学校中发起的活动等等都可以写

　　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?

　　——自选题目

　　University of Chicago

　　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

　　——why school文书，可以参考prompt中给出的"learning, community, and future"三个角度

　　Question 2 (Optional): Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

　　——选填部分，有点像princeton的填空题，但是更偏文艺风

　　Extended Essay Questions(6选1): (Required; Choose one)

　　Essay Option 1. “The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert Sometimes, people talk a lot about popular subjects to assure ‘victory’ in conversation or understanding, and leave behind topics of less popularity, but great personal or intellectual importance. What do you think is important but under-discussed? -Anonymous Suggestion

　　——你认为有什么观点很重要但是很少被谈及。这个prompt的观点跟辩论比较像，重点是放在思想的交流碰撞出的火花上，而不是最终的胜利或者结论。

　　Essay Option 2. Due to a series of clerical errors, there is exactly one typo (an extra letter, a removed letter, or an altered letter) in the name of every department at the University of Chicago. Oops! Describe your new intended major. Why are you interested in it and what courses or areas of focus within it might you want to explore? Potential options include Commuter Science, Bromance Languages and Literatures, Pundamentals: Issues and Texts, Ant History... a full list of unmodified majors ready for your editor’s eye is available here: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics/majors-minors. -Inspired by Josh Kaufman, Class of 2018

　　——why major题目，算是uchi几年来最接地气的一个自选文书了吧。但是注意prompt中列出了一系列的小众领域，似乎暗示着你去讲一讲你与众不同的学术兴趣。

　　Essay Option 3. Fire. Wind. Water. Heart! Captain Planet supposes that the world is made up of these five elements. We’re familiar with the previously-noted set and with actual elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, but select and explain another small group of things (say, under five) that you believe compose our world. -Inspired by Dani Plung, Class of 2017

　　——你认为哪五种元素构成了世界?这个问题从学术角度上来谈地球含量最多的5中化学元素就没有意思了，可能的思路包括构成社会的几种要素(规则、道德等等)、情感(喜怒哀乐等等)、或者脑洞更大一点：味道(酸甜苦辣咸)。

　　Essay Option 4. The late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham once said "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization." Tell us about your “armor.” -Inspired by Adam Berger, Class of 2020

　　——很理想主义的一个问题：是什么支持着你忍受着现实中残酷无聊的生活?可以写你的理想和爱好。

　　Essay Option 5. Fans of the movie Sharknadosay that they enjoy it because “it’s so bad, it’s good.” Certain automobile owners prefer classic cars because they “have more character.” And recently, vinyl record sales have skyrocketed because it is perceived that they have a warmer, fuller sound. Discuss something that you love not in spite of but rather due to its quirks or imperfections. -Inspired by Alex Serbanescu, Class of 2021

　　——你是否因为一件事物的不完美而爱上了它?有时候缺陷才是真实，才是美。

　　Essay Option 6. In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose your own question or choose one of our past prompts. 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.

　　——自选题目(并嘱咐你要选一个足够机qi智pa的题目)

　　University of Michigan

　　Essay #1 (Required for all applicants. Approximately 250 words.) 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.

　　——跟community有关，可以讲你在其中的贡献，或者大环境对你的影响

　　Essay #2 (500 words maximum.) 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?

　　——why school和why major文书的结合体

　　University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

　　Carolina’s supplement will provide you with four prompts, and you will choose two. Each response will be limited to 200-250 words.(4选2)

　　1. Tell us about a peer who has made a difference in your life.

　　——影响你的一个人，范围限定到了小伙伴

　　2. What do you hope will change about the place where you live?

　　——你最想改变什么。可以写社会问题，也可以写身边、学校里、社区里的一些小事

　　3. What is one thing that we don’t know about you that you want us to know?

　　——这个问题经常在面试的最后出现啊(笑)，总之是给你一个补充介绍自己的机会

　　4. What about your background, or what perspective, belief, or experience, will help you contribute to the education of your classmates at UNC?

　　——你对UNC这个community会有什么贡献。要抓住自己独特的点，写一写你在大学里会怎么做，怎么样影响你身边的人

　　University of Pennsylvania

　　How will you explore your intellectual and academic interests at the University of Pennsylvania? Please answer this question given the specific undergraduate school to which you are applying. (400-650 words) *For students applying to the coordinated dual-degree programs, please answer this question in regards to your single-degree school choice. Interest in coordinated dual-degree programs will be addressed through those program-specific essays.

　　——why major文书

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