脑洞大开！芝加哥大学2021-2022申请季补充文书题目

在TOP级名校中，芝加哥大学算是对中国大陆学生比较友好的名校之一，但门槛也依然很高，在公开的2024届新生中，ACT中位数50%是34-35，SAT中位50%是1510-1560，往届被录取的学生中，大部分SAT是1510分以上，99％的录取学生在其高中班级中排名前10％。

除了硬件条件要求高之外，芝加哥大学尤其看重文书部分，通过文书来看学生是什么样子，学生是否有创造力，是否有坚强的个性，是否有敏锐的辨别能力。他们并不苛求学生能在每个方面都做到最好，但要有自己的优势，招生官们理想的候选人是能根据自己的兴趣参与活动不断发展和挖掘自己的长处。

因此，除了正常的申请文书之外，芝加哥大学还会让学生提交一些比较奇葩的补充文书。芝加哥大学的文书题目一向以趣味性和独特另类著称，脑洞大开，创意题目十分考验学生对于题目的理解力。

芝加哥大学认为，这些文书是学生向招生官介绍自己，展示他们的品味和抱负的机会。SAT君觉得在普遍不提交标化成绩的情况下，兴许会有越来越多的美国大学尝试这种方式，来检验学生是不是他们想要的人。

芝加哥大学补充文书题目是招生办向每年新录取的和当前的大学生发送电子邮件，并向他们询问论文主题，因此，这些奇葩的题目都是你未来学长给你的下马威。

芝加哥大学2021-2022申请季补充文书题目

Question 1

(必选)

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.

您现在所知道的芝加哥大学如何满足您对某种学习，社区和未来的渴望？请具体说明您自己的愿望以及它们与UChicago的关系。

这个必选题和往年保持了一致，相对来说，比较容易解决，但下面这些奇葩试题就很烧脑了。

Question 2

扩展论文 (以下任选一题)

Essay Option 1

What if the moon were made of cheese? Or Neptune made of soap? Pick a celestial object, reimagine its material composition, and explore the implications. Feel free to explore the realms of physics, philosophy, fantasy…the sky is the limit!

—Inspired by Tate Flicker, Class of 2025

为什么月亮不能是奶酪做的？海王星不能是肥皂做的？选择一个天体，重新想象一下它的组成物质，并探索其含义。请尽情探索物理、哲学、幻想……不要有任何限制！

（完全超出正常人思维...）

Essay Option 2

What’s so easy about pie?

—Inspired by Arjun Kalia, Class of 2025

为什么做“派”这么简单？

（完全不知道题目在说什么~~）

Essay Option 3

In Homer’s Iliad, Helen had a “face that launched a thousand ships.” A millihelen, then, measures the beauty needed to launch one ship. The Sagan unit is used to denote any large quantity (in place of “billions and billions”). A New York Minute measures the period of time between a traffic light turning green and the cab behind you honking. Invent a new unit of measurement. How is it derived? How is it used? What are its equivalents?

—Inspired by Carina Kane, Class of 2024, and Ishaan Goel, Class of 2025

在荷马的《伊利亚特》中，海伦有一张“能发射一千艘船的脸”。那么，一毫海伦可以衡量发射一艘船所需的美感。萨根单位用于表示任何大的数量（代替“十亿和十亿”）。纽约分钟衡量的是交通灯变绿和您身后的出租车鸣喇叭之间的时间段。发明一种新的计量单位。它是如何推导出来的？它是如何使用的？它的等价物是什么？

（视线逐渐模糊.....）

Essay Option 4

"There is no such thing as a new idea" - Mark Twain. Are any pieces of art, literature, philosophy, or technology truly original, or just a different combination of old ideas? Pick something, anything (besides yourself), and explain why it is, or is not, original.

—Inspired by Haina Lu, Class of 2022

“没有所谓的新想法这种东西”——马克吐温。艺术、文学、哲学或技术的任何部分是真正原创的，还是只是旧思想的不同组合？挑选一些东西，任何东西（除了你自己），并解释为什么它是，或者不是，原创。

（这种辩证思维的选题，倒是有不小的发挥空间...）

Essay Option 5

It's said that history repeats itself. But what about other disciplines? Choose another field (chemistry, philosophy, etc.) and explain how it repeats itself. Explain how it repeats itself.

—Inspired by Ori Brian, AB’19

据说历史会重演。但是其他学科呢？选择另一个领域（化学、哲学等）并解释它如何重复。解释它如何重复。

Essay Option 6

In the spirit of adventurous inquiry (and with the encouragement of one of our current students!) 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!

本着冒险的精神（在我们在校生的鼓励下），选择我们过去的问题之一（或提出您自己的问题）。具有原创性，创造力，发人深省。展现你作为作家，思想家，畅想家，社会评论家，贤哲，世界公民或芝加哥大学未来成员的特质；冒冒险，祝你玩得开心！

（这个题目几乎每年都有，但是也不是那么容易操作...）

下面再来摘抄几个往年的题目，大伙儿感受下：

1、Who does Sally sell her seashells to? How much wood can a woodchuck really chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Pick a favorite tongue twister (either originally in English or translated from another language) and consider a resolution to its conundrum using the method of your choice. Math, philosophy, linguistics... it's all up to you (or your woodchuck).

—Inspired by Blessing Nnate, Class of 2024

2、What can actually be divided by zero?

—Inspired by Mai Vu, Class of 2024

专业办理世界签证

（扫描二维码详细咨询）

3、The seven liberal arts in antiquity consisted of the Quadrivium — astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and music — and the Trivium — rhetoric, grammar, and logic. Describe your own take on the Quadrivium or the Trivium. What do you think is essential for everyone to know?

—Inspired by Peter Wang, Class of 2022

4、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

5、"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" - Eleanor Roosevelt. Misattribute a famous quote and explore the implications of doing so.

—Inspired by Chris Davey, AB’13

怎么样，看到这些奇葩的题目，敢不敢来挑战一下自己？

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