短文是让招生官更好的了解你，所以一定要认真的填写。以斯坦佛为例，一共是三篇小短文和一篇大短文。
The Stanfor Writing Supplement Short Essays
Caniates respon to all three essay topics. (250 wor limit for each essay.)
1.Stanfor stuents possess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an iea or experience that has been important to your intellectual evelopment.
2.Virtually all of Stanfor’s unergrauates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate—an us—know you better.
3.What matters to you, an why?
The Common Application Essay
Caniates choose one topic an respon. (250-wor minimum, 650-wor maximum.)
1.Some stuents have a backgroun or story that is so central to their ientity that they believe their application woul be incomplete without it. If this souns like you, then please share your story.
2.Recount an incient or time when you experience failure. How i it affect you, an what lessons i you learn?
3.Reflect on a time when you challenge a belief or iea. What prompte you to act? Woul you make the same ecision again?
4.Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What o you o or experience there, an why is it meaningful to you?
5.Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marke your transition from chilhoo to aulthoo within your culture, community, or family.
