众多牛校的文书Essay题目(1)

2015年07月20日 美国留学精英联盟




“假设你当选为美国总统,你的就职演讲是什么?”
“目前,什么让你与众不同?”
“如果机会参演一部电影的主角,你想扮演哪个电影的什么角色?”
“你应邀参加TEDtalk,打算讲些什么?”
新的申请季,脑洞大开的文书题目一个接一个......

虽然现在距2015-16Common申请的开放日8月1日,还有20天的时间,但不少大学已经发布了他们的补充文书题目(supplemental essay prompts),这样申请者们就可以提前准备他们大学申请的文书。


目前来说,学生申请多达10所或者更多的大学已经屡见不鲜。一半来书,选校包括目标学校、可达到学校和保底学校,所有学校都是基于学生个人要求、学术要求和费用要求的最佳选择。有了自己的选校清单后,就需要关注学校要求学生写的补充文书题目:一般每个学校两到三篇,所以名校的申请者可能整个申请季下来要写20篇甚至更多文书。文书写作工作量非常大,在高三学年的确让人抓狂。


这也是为什么越来越多的大学今年夏天就提前公布文书题目,包括那些非通用申请系统的大学。这样,申请者们就可以赶在高三忙乱期之前提早进行头脑风暴和文书写作了。


Common申请早前也发布了其2015-16年申请季的变化和文书题目,这样在8.1日申请正式开始之前,申请者们就有机会开始准备了。
大学各自的补充申请和文书题目对申请也至关重要,因为通过补充申请和文书,学校可以评判一个学生的兴趣爱好,给学生展现他们将如何给学校带来贡献以及怎么样扩展他们的专业知识的机会。想要增加录取机率,花时间构思能够脱颖而出的补充文书极其重要。


今天为大家整理了以下这所大学的2015-16申请季的文书题目:
Amherst College


Amherst College
Respond to one of the following quotations in an essay of not more than 300 words. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.

  • “Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most important value is insight—insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments.” Kannan Jagannathan, Professor of Physics, Amherst College


  • “Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He’s the happiest man on earth when he’s performing, but when the show is over, he’s sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future.Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.” Ilán Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. From “The Writer in Exile: An Interview with Ilán Stavans” by Saideh Pakravan for the Fall 1993 issue of The Literary Review.


  • “It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest...unless the graduates of this college…are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion... then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.” John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963


  • “Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior.” Elizabeth Aires, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College. From her book: Men and Women In Interaction, Reconsidering the Difference.


  • “Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.” Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925, the first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals


Submit a graded paper from your junior or senior year that best represents your writing skills and analytical abilities. We are particularly interested in your ability to construct a tightly reasoned, persuasive argument that calls upon literary, sociological or historical evidence. You should NOT submit a laboratory report, journal entry, creative writing sample or in-class essay.


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