发布时间：2016/9/23 来源：互联网 阅读：225次 作者：admin
文书写作应该是美国大学申请过程中最令学生头疼的问题，大部分中国学生经过一段时间培训后，在SAT和TOEFL这种标准化的考试中凭借英语基础以及各种解题技巧能取得一个不错的成绩，但是碰到没有标准答案的开放式的文书写作题目会发现自己无从下笔，再加上有些学校的文书题目极为怪异，有时连题目的主旨可能都难以解析。马上开始准备申请的学生还有家长，让我们一起来看看你们在接下来的申请过程中会遇到些什么奇葩的文书题目吧。
奇葩指数0.5
以理工科和怪异的校园建筑著称于世的MIT，其文书题目倒是显得稀松平常，让学生描述自己来自于什么样的环境，这样的环境是如何塑造自己的，以及面对过的最大的挑战是什么自己又是如何来处理的。这样的题目你在申请大学时，百分之百会遇到！早早的开始思考吧！
跟着我大声说：This is where I come from!
MIT:
Describe the world you come from; for example, yourfamily,clubs, school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? (200-250 words)
Tell us about the most significant challenge youve faced or something important that didnt go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200-250 words)
奇葩指数1.0
斯坦福大学的文书题目里，需要你用50个单词描述如果有机会亲身见证一次著名的历史事件你希望是那什么事件。反思自己在智力发展上有什么思想或者经历对自己有什么重要的影响。此外，斯坦福还要求学生给未来的室友写一封信，帮助室友进一步了解你；还需要让申请者用250个单词回答一个看上去很宏大的主题：什么对你是最重要的，以及为什么？
Stanford
What historical moment or event do you wish you could have witnessed? (50 word limit)
Stanford student spossess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development. (250 word limit)
Virtually all of Stanfords undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate -- and us -- know you better.(250 wordlimit)
What matters to you, and why? (250 word limit)
奇葩指数1.5
加州理工十分强调自己的荣誉制度，即任何人都不应该不公平地利用他人，看上去很简单的原则，学校需要申请者根据自己的切身经历过的道德两难情景 以回应这个问题。此外，加州理工还为自己学生群体古怪的幽默感和有创造性的恶作剧推崇备至，要求申请者讲讲自己有哪些“不正常的”寻开心的法子。推荐申请 人查查历史上加州理工和麻省理工的互相攻击的恶作剧大战应该会有启发。
Caltech的学生曾佯装MIT的学生在MIT举办的校园参观日活动中向新生们发放免费的T恤。这些T恤乍一看印着大大的MIT字样，可打开T恤就会发现T恤的背面印有“because not everybody can go to Caltech(因为不是所有人都能进Caltech)”的嘲讽话语。
Caltech
1.Members of the Caltech community live, learn, and work within an Honor System with one simple guideline; "No member shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community." While seemingly simple, questions of ethics, honesty and integrity are sometimes challenging. Share an ethical dilemma that has challenged you. How did you respond? Your response is not limited to academic situations. (100 words max)
2.Caltech students have long been known for their quirky sense of humor and creative pranks. Please describe an unusual way in which you have fun. (100 words max)
奇葩指数2.0
埃默里大学要求申请者想象自己是一位大学教授，想要开设一门新的课程，你可以选择任何学科任何课程，你希望自己的学生们在这门课上学习什么内容。
等我当上了教授一定给学生上堂这样的课，绝对妥妥的！
Emory
Imagine you are a professor, charged with teaching a new course. Emory University offers over 1,000 courses in a wide range of academic subjects. You are free to choose whatever subject you want. What class would you create? What would you hope students would leave your class having learned? (Don’t forget to include your class title!) (250 word limit)
奇葩指数2.5
弗吉尼亚大学被誉为大众情人校，因为其EA阶段的申请人数量庞大，在中国地区的招生也较为宽松，但UVa的文书看上去也不是那么容易搞定哦。第一个题目就有点让人云里雾里，2006年一位名为Robert Stilling的研究生在UVA的一所图书馆发现了著名诗人罗伯特福斯特的一篇未发表的诗歌，那你的Stilling时刻是在什么时候呢？
第二题则要求申请者描述自己的一个怪癖以及这个怪癖为什么是你的一部分。
第三题则更加无厘头，将莎士比亚的名句To be or not to be改为To tweet or not to tweet?可中国申请者根本就Tweet不了啊！
UVA
In 2006, graduate student Robert Stilling discovered an unpublished poem by Robert Frost while doing research in U.Va.s Small Collections Library. Where will your Stilling moment be incollege?
We are acommunity with quirks, both in language (well welcome you to Grounds, not campus) and in traditions. Describe one of your quirks and why it is part of who you are.
To tweet or not to tweet?
奇葩指数3.0
维克森林大学虽然排名23，但在中国知名度并不高，也许这五篇，篇篇不寻常的文书题目吓住了不少申请者。第一题就不走寻常路，问什么会使你愤怒，而你又将如何处理你的愤怒情绪。愤怒这种稍显负面的情绪可能是唯独这所大学的题目里主动提及。第二题也是无根无据的要学生列出你自己的Top10名单，没有任何范围或者情景的提示。第三题又使小编深深得陷入了沉思，Twitter到底下了多少血本在大学申请过程里面植入了这么多软广告！该题要求申请者利用140个字符的空间挑战公众认为社交媒体肤浅不足以表达深层次思想的谬论。
下面是推特的广告时间：
Wake Forest University
1. What outrages you? What are you doing about it? Tell us about a time when you stepped up against anoutrage in your community.(150 words maximum)
2. Give us your top ten list. (300 words maximum)
3. Some say social media is superficial, with no room for expressing deep or complex ideas. We challenge you to defy these skeptics by describing yourself as fully and accurately as possible in the 140-character limit of a tweet.
4. Research shows that members of Generation Y (16-24 year olds) are more tolerant of difference than were previous generations at this age - but also less likely to form close bonds with those of different demographic or socioeconomic backgrounds. How have you personally disproved this generalization?(300 words maximum)
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument." Describe a time when your argument challenged a basic belief or viewpoint of your "sect. (150 words maximum)
奇葩指数3.5
塔夫斯大学不仅在文书内容上推陈出新，还在形式上给学生更多空间。申请者可以通过散文、视频、电子文件等来回答该问题“如果你不讲述真实的自己你也不能认识其他的人”。第四题用口号式的方式要求申请者：大大方方得向我们展示你书呆子的一面吧！中国学生会不会见到这一题之后喜大普奔呢？塔夫斯不仅有书呆子的一面哦，被华盛顿邮报评为2013年最讨厌的缩写词：YOLO(You only live once你只会活一次)也成了文书题目，你是如何看待这句带有及时行乐意味的流行语呢？
Tufts
A) “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people,” Virginia Woolf. Respond to Woolf’squote in the medium of your choice: prose, video (one minute)， blog, digital portfolio, slam poetry... For media other than writing, please share a link (video can be submitted via YouTube but we recommend using a privacy setting) that is easily accessible.
B) What makes you happy?
C) Sports, science and society are filled with rules,theories and laws like the Ninth Commandment, PV=nRT, Occam’s Razor, and The Law of Diminishing Returns. Three strikes and you’re out. “I”before “E” except after “C” Warm air rises. Pick one and explain its significance to you.
D) Celebrate your nerdy side.
E) The ancient Romans started it when they coined the phrase "Carpe diem." Jonathan Larson proclaimed "No day but today!" and most recently, Drake explained You Only Live Once(YOLO). Have you ever seized the day? Lived like there was no tomorrow? Or perhaps you plan to shout YOLO while jumping into something in the future. What does #YOLO mean to you?
奇葩指数4.0
北卡罗莱那大学倾向于用一些小问题来折磨你，比如你希望在彩虹之后发现什么？如果你能穿越到任何时空，你会去哪儿为什么？你的主题曲是什么？切片面包之后的最佳事物是什么？你最珍贵的财产是啥？你最希望拥有的超能力是什么？你想发明什么小玩意？
UNC
Most of us have one or more personality quirks. Explain one of yours and what it says about you.
What do you hope to find over therainbow?
Why do you do what you do?
If you could travel anywhere in time or space, either real or imagined, where would you go and why?
Tell us about a time when your curiosity led you some place you werent expecting to go.
My theme song: Best thing since sliced bread
My most treasured possession
Super power I’d most like to have
Gadget that needs inventing
Biggest little worry
相比起UNC的俏皮灵动，波士顿学院的文书题目则显得深沉严肃而又有思考的趣味。第一题引用了BC的毕业典礼演讲，“事实往往缺少灵魂而显得不够完整，在理解历史时有人拥有了所有的数据却不得要领，就如钢琴初学者奏出了所有音符却听不到音乐”，请告诉我们你自己是否有这样的经历。
Boston College
From David McCulloughs recent commencement address at BC:“Facts alone are never enough. Facts rarely if ever have any soul.In writing or trying to understand history one may have all manner of data, and miss the point. One can have all the facts and miss the truth. It can be like the old piano teachers lament to herstudent, I hear all the notes, but I hear no music.” Tell us abouta time you had all of the facts but missed the meaning.
In his novel, Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann writes:“We seldom know what were hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.” Tell us about something you heard or experienced for the first time and how the years since have affected your perception of that moment.
奇葩指数5
要谈奇葩的文书主题，夺魁的如果不是芝加哥大学，很多人一定会跟我急！应了中国网络上最火的流行语，读完芝加哥大学文书主题，我的小伙伴们惊呼：不明觉厉！各位读者好好感受下吧：
U Chicago
1.Winston Churchill believed "a joke is a very serious thing." From Off-Off Campus’s improvisations to the Shady Dealer humor magazine to the renowned Latke-Hamantash debate, we take humor very seriously here at The University of Chicago (and we have since 1959, when our alums helped found the renowned comedy theater The Second City). Tell us your favorite joke and try to explain the joke without ruining it. -
2.In a famous quote by Jose Ortegay Gasset,the Spanish philosopher proclaims, "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia"(1914). José Quintans, master of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, sees it another way: "Yo soy yo y mimicrobioma" (2012). You are you and your..? -Maria Viteri, Class of 2016
3.This is what history consists of. Its the sum total of all the things they arent telling us.-- Don DeLillo, Libra. What is history, who are "they", and what arent they telling us? -Amy Estersohn,Class of 2010
4.The mantis shrimp can perceive both polarized light and multispectral images; they have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Human eyes have color receptors for three colors (red,green, and blue)； the mantis shrimp has receptors for sixteen types of color,enabling them to see a spectrum far beyond the capacity of the human brain. Seriously, how cool is the mantis shrimp: mantisshrimp.uchicago.edu. What might they be able to see that we cannot? What are we missing?
5.How are apples and oranges supposed to be compared? Possible answers involve, but are not limited to, statistics,chemistry, physics, linguistics, and philosophy.
6.In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose a question of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. 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。
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