【聚焦】芝加哥大学新essay出炉！你能想到几种破解法？下-新东方前途出国

　　重新制作一个地图：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.  

　　—Inspired by Maximilian Site, Class of 2020  

　　制作一个属于自己的“One-Pager”：Imagine you’ve struck a deal with the Dean of Admissions himself, Dean Nondorf. It goes as follows: you’re guaranteed admission to the University of Chicago regardless of any circumstances that arise. This bond is grounded on the condition that you’ll obtain a blank, 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, and draw, write, sketch, shade, stencil, paint etc., anything and everything you want on it; your only limitations will be the boundaries of both sides on the single page. Now the catch… your submission, for the rest of your life, will always be the first thing anyone you meet for the first time will see. Whether it’s at a job interview, a blind date, arrival at your first Humanities class, before you even say, “hey,” they’ll already have seen your page, and formulated that first impression. Show us your page. What’s on it, and why? If your piece is largely or exclusively visual, please make sure to share a creator's accompanying statement of at least 300 words, which we will happily allow to be on its own, separate page. PS: This is a creative thought experiment, and selecting this essay prompt does not guarantee your admission to UChicago.  

　　-Inspired by Amandeep Singh Ahluwalia, Class of 2022  

　　找到X：Find x.  

　　—Inspired by Benjamin Nuzzo, an admitted student from Eton College, UK  

　　什么能被0整除：What can actually be divided by zero?  

　　—Inspired by Mai Vu, Class of 2024  

　　奇数有什么奇怪的？（双关）：What’s so odd about odd numbers?  

　　—Inspired by Mario Rosasco, AB’09  

　　沉默是如何振聋发聩的：Susan Sontag, AB’51, wrote that “[s]ilence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.” Write about an issue or a situation when you remained silent, and explain how silence may speak in ways that you did or did not intend. The Aesthetics of Silence, 1967.  

　　—Anonymous Suggestion  

　　Waldo在哪？：So where is Waldo, really?  

　　—Inspired by Robin Ye  

　　*以上内容参考材料：芝加哥大学官网/Niche官网。  

　　通过上述这些essay题目的例子，我们可以感觉到，芝加哥大学非常期待看到学生们的创意，同时还会期待学生利用统计、物理等多个角度来解释问题。  

　　这里有一个小提示：我们可以看到有的问题相对能让人想到头绪，有的则相反。这意味着相对好想的题目回答的人也会更多。  

　　不止今年，也不止芝加哥大学，美国闻名大学非常期待看到学生用文字来表述他们的想法打破常规的各种方式！