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2017-2018年度最新的一批文书题目出炉啦！建议2022er们在暑假准备SAT/ACT考试之余，一定要开始文书的brainstorming。可以不动笔，但要多思考、整理自己的经历。时间充裕的小伙伴们也可以考虑先从主文书、活动文书和UC系统的文书开始写。因为活动文书应用范围广，而且相对好写。而UC文书题目简单明了，并且话题覆盖面很广，很多题材都能用到其他文书里，有助于梳理思路。High quality esay writing service on www.hotessay.cn 下面我们就来看看最新的文书题目们吧！ 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 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） 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. ——主题为leadership，可以写活动 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. ——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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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” 6. 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 7. 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 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? ——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./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 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 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 |
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