斯坦福大学
斯坦福大学要求新生 按照学校规定在申请系统中回答几个问题 （50词左右）。除此之外，还需要根据学校给出的问题 写出三个100-250词的Essay 。
We ask applicants to answer several short questions (limit 50 wors each), an to write a short essay on each of the three topics below.
Short Essay Questions
There is a 100-wor minimum an a 250-wor maximum for each essay.
- The Stanfor community is eeply curious an riven to learn in an out of the classroom. Reflect on an iea or experience that makes you genuinely excite about learning.
- 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—get to know you better.
- Tell us about something that is meaningful to you, an why?
芝加哥大学
芝加哥文书题目素以 脑洞大开 著称， 除了必须写的一篇文书之外，另一篇optional的prompt非常有意思，且每年更新 。以下是今年的选项：
Essay Option 1
What if the moon were mae of cheese? Or Neptune mae of soap? Pick a celestial object, reimagine its material composition, an explore the implications. Feel free to explore the realms of physics, philosophy, fantasy…the sky is the limit!
Essay Option 2
What’s so easy about pie?
Essay Option 3
In Homer’s Ilia, Helen ha a “face that launche a thousan ships.” A millihelen, then, measures the beauty neee to launch one ship. The Sagan unit is use to enote any large quantity (in place of “billions an billions”). A New York Minute measures the perio of time between a traffic light turning green an the cab behin you honking. Invent a new unit of measurement. How is it erive? How is it use? What are its equivalents?
Essay Option 4
"There is no such thing as a new iea" - Mark Twain. Are any pieces of art, literature, philosophy, or technology truly original, or just a ifferent combination of ol ieas? Pick something, anything (besies yourself), an explain why it is, or is not, original.
Essay Option 5
It's sai that history repeats itself. But what about other isciplines? Choose another fiel (chemistry, philosophy, etc.) an explain how it repeats itself. Explain how it repeats itself.
