30所美国大学带着补充文书题目来了！新申请季文书决胜

今年是特殊的一年，即使有疫情的影响，2021年申请季还是如期拉开帷幕。对于美本申请，每个申请人都是独一无二的，你规划出了属于自己的申请方案了吗？

自疫情爆发以来，美国大学纷纷调整招生录取方案，取消了SAT/ACT标化成绩要求的学校不在少数，但是并不意味着美国大学的录取要求降低了，反而是考试成绩、活动、文书、推荐信等要素显得更加重要。

不过值得开心的是，作为美本申请中使用人数最多的系统——Common Application，为了降低新冠造成的申请焦虑，早在5月份的时候就做出了改变，为需要的申请者提供一个额外的机会：

Common application曾发文表示，系统里会专门开拓一个版块给学生用来分享你与疫情的故事与经历，所以作为申请可选加分项，美国大学将会非常注重你参与疫情防护与传播的活动经历。

（美国Common APP申请系统的说明）

虽然文章说，这将会是一个可选填项。但是在不着重考察标化成绩的前提下，任何能够展现自己个性和经历的选项，我们都不应该放过，就像我们对待申请美国本科需要填写的“十个活动，五个奖项”一样。

（申请系统里对于COVID-19的题目说明）

Community disruptions such as COVID-19 and natural disasters can have deep and long-lasting impacts. If you need it, this space is yours to describe those impacts. Colleges care about the effects on your health and well-being, safety, family circumstances, future plans, and education, including access to reliable technology and quiet study spaces.

• Do you wish to share anything on this topic? Y/N

• Please use this space to describe how these events have  impacted you.

The question will be optional and will appear in the Additional Information section of the application.The response length will be limited to 250 words.

中文：

如COVID-19或者灾难等问题所带来的社群性的停滞会产生巨大的影响。如果需要，你可以写一写这些影响。大学关注这件事是否影响了你的身体与心理健康，安全，家庭状况，未来计划，教育，是否能获得可用的技术支持，以及安静的学习环境。

• 就这个题目，你希望分享什么事情吗？

• 请用这个空间去描述这些事件如何影响你。

  
  

该问题是选答题，并将显示在Common的"附加信息"部分中。回复长度将限于250字。

这是一道开放式题目，题目以席卷全球的新冠疫情作为背景，强调学校对于疫情而给学生带来的诸多方面影响的关注。这种影响你的方式可以是多种多样的，通过触点事件，申请者进行自我剖析，加深自我认知。

每位学生的想法都是多种多样的，经历也有很大的不同，在去充分理解题目后，还要有一双善于发现的眼睛。当然，一位好的留学申请老师，也会在文书阶段给学生最大的帮助。优秀的团队才能撰写出一个个精彩的文书，最后收获一个个闪光的offer。

三大网申平台：

2020-2021 Coalition App (已开放)

2020-2021 Universal College App (7月1日左右)

2020-2021 Common App (8月1日启动)

P.S.有的学校有自己的网申系统，比如著名的UC网申系统、德州申请系统，MIT、乔治城大学、弗吉尼亚理工等也拥有独立申请系统。 

除了 Common App 系统的文书题目，美国各大高校通常有自己的补充文书题目。目前已经有近30所大学公布了补充文书题目，大家过来认领自己梦校的题目！

Babson College 巴布森学院

一篇500字Essay或一分钟视频

Your moment has arrived. Share with us the moments or experiences that have led you to apply to Babson College.

Boston College 波士顿学院

HCE专业写5，其他专业1-4任选一。（400字内）

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?

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?

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?

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?

5、For Human-Centered Engineering major applicants only: One goal of a Jesuit education is to prepare students to serve the Common Good. Human-Centered Engineering at Boston College strives to develop people who will integrate technical knowledge, creativity, and a humanistic perspective to address societal challenges and opportunities. How would a Boston College engineering education enable you to contribute towards these goals?

Brown University布朗大学

三选一（250字内）

1、Brown’s Open Curriculum allows students to explore broadly while also diving deeply into their academic pursuits. Tell us about an academic interest (or interests) that excites you, and how you might use the Open Curriculum to pursue it. (250 words)

2、At Brown, you will learn as much from your peers outside the classroom as in academic spaces. How will you contribute to the Brown community? (250 words)

3、Tell us about a place or community you call home. How has it shaped your perspective? (250 words)

Cornell University 康奈尔大学

对应各自申请专业（650字内）

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: Why are you drawn to studying the major you have selected? 

Please discuss how your interests and related experiences have influenced your choice. Specifically, how will an education from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and Cornell University help you achieve your academic goals?

College of Architecture, Art, and Planning: What is your "thing"? What energizes you or engages you so deeply that you lose track of time? Everyone has different passions, obsessions, quirks, inspirations. What are yours?

College of Arts and Sciences: Students in Arts and Sciences embrace the opportunity to delve into multifaceted academic interests, embodying in 21st century terms Ezra Cornell’s “any person…any study” founding vision. Tell us about the areas of study you are excited to explore, and specifically why you wish to pursue them in our College.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business: What kind of a business student are you? The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business offers two distinct business programs, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the School of Hotel Administration. Please describe how your interests and ambitions can be met through one or both of the Schools within the College.

College of Engineering: Tell us about what excites you most about Cornell Engineering and/or studying engineering at Cornell University. How do you see yourself becoming a part of the Cornell Engineering community?

College of Human Ecology: How has your decision to apply to the College of Human Ecology been influenced by your related experiences? How will your choice of major impact your goals and plans for the future?

School of Industrial and Labor Relations: Using your personal, academic, or volunteer/work experiences, describe the topics or issues that you care about and why they are important to you. Your response should show us that your interests align with the ILR School.

Duke University 杜克大学

必选：（200字内）

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?  

可选：（250字内）

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. 

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, you can do so here, or use any previous essay prompt you feel is appropriate. 

Georgetown University 乔治城大学

1、Indicate any special talents or skills you possess.（250字内）

2、Briefly discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved. （半页纸，大约1000字符）

3、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. （一页纸）

4、What does it mean to you to be educated? How might Georgetown College help you achieve this aim? （单行，一页纸，科学与数学或语言学的申请人需要陈述他们所选的专业）

Johns Hopkins University 约翰霍普金斯大学

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. (400字内)

Trinity College 三一学院

二选一（250字-600字间）

1、We live in an urban-global age with more than half of the planet’s people living in cities. 

Trinity College is an urban liberal arts college deeply engaged with the local community and committed to making an impact across the world.  How do you aspire to use your education to impact local and global communities?

2、Our mission states:  “Engage. Connect. Transform. As the preeminent liberal arts college in an urban setting, Trinity College prepares students to be bold, independent thinkers who lead transformative lives.” Keeping the three pillars of the mission in mind, how do you see yourself contributing to the Trinity community?

Rice University 莱斯大学

There is a breadth of intellectual opportunities here at Rice. Further explain your intended major and other areas of academic focus you may explore. （150字）

Syracuse University 雪城大学

1、Who or what influenced you to apply to Syracuse University? （250字）

2、Who is the person you dream of becoming and how do you believe Syracuse University can help you achieve this? （250字）

Tufts University 塔夫茨大学

1、Which aspects of the Tufts undergraduate experience prompt your application? In short, ‘Why Tufts?’（100-150字）

2、三选一（200-250字）

❶From 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?

❷Whether 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?

❸We 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?

Tulane University 杜兰大学

Please describe why you are interested in attending Tulane University (optional) (800字内)

University of California 加州大学系统

8选4（350字内）

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.  

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. 

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

University of Chicago 芝加哥大学

必选：

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.

必选补充文书，七选一：

1、Who does Sally sell her seashells to? How much wood can a woodchuck really chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Pick a favorite tongue twister (either originally in English or translated from another language) and consider a resolution to its conundrum using the method of your choice. Math, philosophy, linguistics... it's all up to you (or your woodchuck).

2、What can actually be divided by zero?

3、The seven liberal arts in antiquity consisted of the Quadrivium — astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and music — and the Trivium — rhetoric, grammar, and logic. Describe your own take on the Quadrivium or the Trivium. What do you think is essential for everyone to know?

4、Subway maps, evolutionary trees, Lewis diagrams. Each of these schematics tells the relationships and stories of their component parts. Reimagine a map, diagram, or chart. If your work is largely or exclusively visual, please include a cartographer's key of at least 300 words to help us best understand your creation.

5、"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" - Eleanor Roosevelt. Misattribute a famous quote and explore the implications of doing so.

6、Engineer George de Mestral got frustrated with burrs stuck to his dog’s fur and applied the same mechanic to create Velcro. Scientist Percy Lebaron Spencer found a melted chocolate bar in his magnetron lab and discovered microwave cooking. Dye-works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly found his tablecloth clean after a kerosene lamp was knocked over on it, consequently shaping the future of dry cleaning. Describe a creative or interesting solution, and then find the problem that it solves.

7、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!

University of Colorado Boulder 科罗拉多大学博尔德分校

补充文书，必选（250–650字）：

We value difference and support equity and inclusion of all students and their many intersecting identities. Pick one of your unique identities and describe its significance.

University of Georgia 佐治亚大学

补充文书，必选（200–300字）：

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.

UMass Amherst 马萨诸塞大学安姆斯特分校

1、Please tell us why you want to attend UMass Amherst（100字）

2、Please tell us why you chose the major you did（100字）

University of Michigan 密歇根大学

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. (必选，300字)

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? (必选，550字)

UNC-Chapel Hill 北卡教堂山分校

四选二（200-250字）：

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?

University of Virginia 弗吉尼亚大学

1、对应各自申请专业（半页纸，250字）

College of Arts and Sciences - What work of art, music, science, mathematics, literature, or other media has surprised, unsettled, or inspired you, and in what way?

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - Describe an engineering feat that serves the common good and why it inspires you to study engineering.

School of Architecture - Describe significant experience that deepened your interest in studying in the School of Architecture.

School of Nursing - Describe a health care-related experience or another significant interaction that deepened your interest in studying nursing.

Kinesiology Program - Discuss experiences that led you to apply to the kinesiology major. 

2、五选一（半页纸，250字）

❶What’s your favorite word and why?

❷We 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.

❸Student 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?

❹UVA 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?

❺Rita Dove, UVA English professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, once said in an interview that "...there are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints." Describe a time when, instead of complaining, you took action for the greater good.

University of Texas at Austin德州大学奥斯汀分校

必选（250-300字，不超过40行）：

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.

可选（250-300字，不超过40行）：

Please share background on events or special circumstances that may have impacted your high school academic performance.

University of Vermont 佛蒙特大学

五选一：

1、Why UVM?

2、Established in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Burlington, VT, Ben and Jerry’s is synonymous with the ice cream business. The company’s success and unique brand identity are due in part to their one-of-a-kind flavors. Which Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor (real or imagined) best describes you?

3、Whether they are constructing a robot, a stronger sense of community or an identity, UVM students are builders. What would you like to build?

4、At UVM, learning extends far beyond the walls of our classrooms. From student-led organizations, to internships and study abroad experiences, UVM students are encouraged to pursue knowledge in all environments. Describe a time when you’ve learned in a non-traditional setting.

5、Communities and organizations are stronger when they value diversity of thought. How do you create meaningful connections or conversations with others when they express opinions that differ from your own?

University of Washington 华盛顿大学

必选（500字内）：

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

必选（300字内）：

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.

可选，个人其他补充信息（200字）：

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:

❶You have experienced personal hardships in attaining your education

❷Your activities have been limited because of work or family obligations

❸You have experienced unusual limitations or opportunities unique to the schools you attended

UW-Madison 威斯康辛大学麦迪逊

Tell us why you would like to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition, please include why you are interested in studying the major(s) you have selected. If you selected undecided, please describe your areas of possible academic interest.

Wake Forest University 维克森林大学

1、List five books you have read that intrigued you.

2、Tell us how a work of fiction you’ve read has helped you to understand the world’s complexity. （300字内）

3、What piques your intellectual curiosity, and why? （150字内）

4、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? （150字内）

5、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.（150字内）

Washington University in St. Louis 圣路易斯华盛顿大学

Tell us about something that really sparks your intellectual interest and curiosity and compels you to explore more in the program/area of study that you indicated. It could be an idea, book, project, cultural activity, work of art, start-up, music, movie, research, innovation, question, or other pursuit. （300字内）

Villanova University 维拉诺瓦大学

1、四选一，（250字）

❶What is the truest thing that you know? How did you come to this conclusion?

❷Villanovans are known for "holding doors open" because inclusion is at the core of who we are. Take us on a journey through your background and describe how your life experience has shaped your understanding of the word "inclusion".

❸Generation Z is arguably the most technologically savvy cohort in history. They find answers to questions, discover troves of new music, or even start the next global social movement, all within seconds. How has this seemingly limitless connectivity influenced the person you have become?

❹In St. Augustine's book Confessions, one of the themes is the idea of redemption and second chances. Tell us a story about second chances. It can be your experience or one that you have come across through others or through media.

2、 Why do you want to call Villanova your new home and become part of our community? （100字）

与去年类似，今年“Why”类题目很多，很容易理解，美国大学最关心的就是你有多想来？

当你回答这类问题时，一定要回答出你的理由，聚焦在为什么上，而且理由不能空洞，而是落实在实处的过往经历或活动，与你未来的目标和对学校的了解来印证你对学校的兴趣。

此前，我们会说：文书是你琳琅满目的活动的呈现,是你整个人思想的体现，也是你自身与众不同之处的重要表现。而就目前的申请趋势看来，没有了标化成绩的要求，文书变成了所有申请材料中的重中之重，你准备好进行文书头脑风暴了吗？

除了做好文书准备，为文书提供鲜活真实的素材外，在不硬性要求提交标化考试成绩的情况下，个性化的学术与活动背景也会帮助你脱颖而出。

总的而言，有条理的申请规划准备越能够帮助你取得优秀的申请战绩，2020-2021申请季已开启，还不赶紧动起来~

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