最新！芝加哥大学2024-2025申请季“奇葩”文书题目公布，敢不敢挑战下？

2024-06-27 16:06

芝加哥大学是顶级美国大学中录取中国学生较多的顶级名校之一，备受牛娃们关注，尽管近年芝加哥大学出现过安全问题，但申请热度不减。

而在申请方面，近几年，芝加哥大学除了录取率跌破6%以下持续走低之外，还以每年的奇葩文书题目而出名。

芝加哥大学的文书题目的烧脑程度，让很多从业经验丰富的顾问都不敢挑战，今天我们来看下今年的题目有多“奇葩”。

2024-25 UChicago文书题目

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。去年是给了7个题目，今年又调整回来了。出题人都是上一届学生给下一届出题，一届比一届难，冤冤相报何时了啊。

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 Name an outdated slang from any decade or language that you'd bring back and explain why you totally “dig it.”

“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，给出你的最佳答案，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最佳品质；冒一点险，享受乐趣！

怎么样，看到这些文书题目，你有头绪吗？

顺便再筛选两个2023-2024申请季的题目，大家也感受一下：

Essay Option 3

“Vlog,” “Labradoodle,” and “Fauxmage.” Language is filled with portmanteaus. Create a new portmanteau and explain why those two things are a “patch” (perfect match).

“Vlog”，“Labradoodle”和“Fauxmage”都是混成词。创造一个新的混成词，并解释为什么这两个事物可以完美匹配。

– Inspired by Garrett Chalfin, Class of 2027

Essay Option 4

A jellyfish is not a fish. Cat burglars don’t burgle cats. Rhode Island is not an island. Write an essay about some other misnomer, and either come up with and defend a new name for it or explain why its inaccurate name should be kept.

一只水母并非鱼类，猫贼并不是偷猫的贼，罗德岛并非真正的岛屿。写一篇关于其他错误称谓的文章，并提出并辩护一个新的名称，或解释为什么应该保留它的不准确名称。

– Inspired by Sonia Chang, Class of 2025, and Mirabella Blair, Class of 2027

请记住这些出题者的名字....