2021美本申請季開始，30所大學公布補充文書題目

夏天來了，新的申請季也來了，準備申請美本 2021 fall 的你們準備好了嗎？要知道，除了 Common App 系統(tǒng)的文書題目，美國各大高校通常有自己的補充文書題目。

而 Extra/Supplemental essay 是學校用來檢驗學生性格與學校整體氛圍契合度的文書材料，有的大學會要求申請人提供 2-3 篇補充文書，一輪申請季可能要寫至少 20 篇文書，這個工作量讓許多同學頭大。已經(jīng)有近30所大學公布了補充文書題目，大家過來認領自己夢校的題目！

三大網(wǎng)申平臺：

2020-2021 Coalition App (已開放)

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

2020-2021 Common App (8月1日啟動)

P.S.有的學校有自己的網(wǎng)申系統(tǒng)，比如著名的UC網(wǎng)申系統(tǒng)、德州申請系統(tǒng)，MIT、喬治城大學、弗吉尼亞理工等也擁有獨立申請系統(tǒng)。 

Babson College巴布森學院

一篇500字Essay或一分鐘視頻

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

Boston College波士頓學院

HCE專業(yè)寫5，其他專業(yè)1-4任選一。（400字內(nèi)）

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布朗大學

三選一（250字內(nèi)）

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康奈爾大學

對應各自申請專業(yè)（650字內(nèi)）

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杜克大學

必選：（200字內(nèi)）

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?  

可選：（250字內(nèi)）

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喬治城大學

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

2、Briefly discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved. （半頁紙，大約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. （一頁紙）

4、What does it mean to you to be educated? How might Georgetown College help you achieve this aim? （單行，一頁紙，科學與數(shù)學或語言學的申請人需要陳述他們所選的專業(yè)）

Johns Hopkins University約翰霍普金斯大學

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字內(nèi))

Trinity College三一學院

二選一（250字-600字間）

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萊斯大學

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雪城大學

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塔夫茨大學

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

2、三選一（200-250字）

？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?

？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?

？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?

Tulane University杜蘭大學

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

University of California加州大學系統(tǒng)

8選4（350字內(nèi)）

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芝加哥大學

必選：

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.

必選補充文書，七選一：

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科羅拉多大學博爾德分校

補充文書，必選（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佐治亞大學

補充文書，必選（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馬薩諸塞大學安姆斯特分校

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密歇根大學

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. (必選，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? (必選，550字)

UNC-Chapel Hill北卡教堂山分校

四選二（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弗吉尼亞大學

1、對應各自申請專業(yè)（半頁紙，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、五選一（半頁紙，250字）

？、What’s your favorite word and why?

？、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.

？、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?

？、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?

？、Rita 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德州大學奧斯汀分校

必選（250-300字，不超過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.

可選（250-300字，不超過40行）：

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

University of Vermont佛蒙特大學

五選一：

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華盛頓大學

必選（500字內(nèi)）：

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

必選（300字內(nèi)）：

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.

可選，個人其他補充信息（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:

？、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

UW-Madison威斯康辛大學麥迪遜

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維克森林大學

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字內(nèi)）

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

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字內(nèi)）

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字內(nèi)）

Washington University in St. Louis圣路易斯華盛頓大學

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字內(nèi)）

Villanova University維拉諾瓦大學

1、四選一，（250字）

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

？、Villanovans 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".

？、Generation 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?

？、In 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）

與去年類似，今年“Why”類題目很多，很容易理解，美國大學最關心的就是你有多想來？當你回答這類問題時，一定要回答出你的理由，聚焦在為什么上。

而且理由不能空洞，而是落實在實處的過往經(jīng)歷或活動，與你未來的目標和對學校的了解來印證你對學校的興趣。

文書是一個展示你與眾不同的絕佳機會，學術成績是沒有生命的，而essay能讓招生官聽到你的心，作出你的畫像。你能寫好這簡單的三五百字嗎？

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