因此学校在筛选申请者时也十分有趣,文书每年都很特别。目前,芝加哥大学2025Fall文书题目已新鲜出炉,赶紧看看今年又有哪些烧脑的问题吧!
芝加哥大学通常是一个必选补充文书(即why school),然后是有六个可选补充文书,六选一,去年突然调整为七选一,今年又恢复回来了。一起来看下:
Question 1 (Required,无变化)
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.
以你现在所了解的方式,芝加哥大学如何满足你对特定类型学习、社区和未来的渴望?请具体说明你自己的愿望以及它们与芝加哥大学的关系。
这是一篇是所有申请者都必须要提交的文书,属于典型的why school,还比较容易写。
Question 2: 扩展文书
以下几个补充文书题目,任选其一。
Essay Option 1
We’re all familiar with green-eyed envy or feeling blue, but what about being “caught purple-handed”? Or “tickled orange”? Give an old color-infused expression a new hue and tell us what it represents.
我们都熟悉嫉妒的“绿眼怪”或感到沮丧的“蓝色心情”,但“被紫手抓住”或者“被橙色逗乐”又是什么感觉?给一个旧的色彩表达赋予一个新的色调,并告诉我们它代表什么。
——灵感来自2026届的Ramsey Bottorff
Essay Option 2
"Ah, but I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now” – Bob Dylan. In what ways do we become younger as we get older?
“啊,但那时我已经老了 / 现在我比那时年轻”——Bob Dylan。我们是如何在变老的同时变得更年轻的?
——灵感来自2016届的Joshua Harris
Essay Option 3
Pluto, the demoted planet. Ophiuchus, the thirteenth Zodiac. Andy Murray, the fourth to tennis's Big Three. Every grouping has something that doesn’t quite fit in. Tell us about a group and its unofficial member, why (or why not) should it be excluded?
冥王星,被降级的行星。蛇夫座,第十三个星座。安迪·穆雷,网球界“大三”之外的第四人。每个群体都有一个不太合群的成员。告诉我们一个群体及其非正式成员,为什么(或不为什么)它应该被排除在外?
——灵感来自2022届的Veronica Chang
Essay Option 4
"Daddy-o", "Far Out", "Gnarly": the list of slang terms goes on and on. Sadly, most of these aren’t so "fly" anymore – “as if!” Name an outdated slang from any decade or language that you'd bring back and explain why you totally “dig it.”详细情况欢迎咨询Tops6868。
“老爸”,“太棒了”,“真酷”:这些俚语的列表还在不断延续。不幸的是,大多数这些俚语现在都不那么“流行”了——“才怪!”选择一个来自任何年代或语言的过时俚语,并解释为什么你完全“喜欢”它。
——灵感来自2028届的Napat Sakdibhornssup
Essay Option 5
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? What is the total length of chalk used by UChicago professors in a year? How many pages of books are in the Regenstein Library? These questions are among a class of estimation problems named after University of Chicago physicist Enrico Fermi. Create your own Fermi estimation problem, give it your best answer, and show us how you got there.
芝加哥有多少钢琴调音师?芝加哥大学教授一年使用的粉笔总长度是多少?里根斯坦图书馆里有多少页书?这些问题属于一种以芝加哥大学物理学家恩里科·费米命名的估算问题。创造你自己的费米估算问题,给出你的zui佳答案,并告诉我们你是如何得出这个答案的。
——灵感来自2028届的Malhar Manek
Essay Option 6(无变化)
And, as always… the classic choose your own adventure option! In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, 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!
一如既往……经典的自选冒险题目!本着探索的精神,从我们过去的题目中选择一个(或者自己创造一个问题)。要原创,有创意,发人深省。发挥你作为作家、思想家、愿景家、社会评论家、智者、世界公民或未来芝加哥大学公民的zui佳品质;冒一点险,享受乐趣!
芝大的校训是“益智厚生” (Crescat scientia; vita excolatur),录取的学生也自然都是勤于发问、善于探究的深度思想者。
芝大的附加文书便是这样一个展现学生思维结构的绝佳平台。写好芝大文书的关键就是要去展现你独特的思想:你是怎么去处理一个看似很“无厘头”的问题的?你切入的角度与分析问题的过程是怎样的?这是芝大的招生官老师最希望看到的。