1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
2. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
3. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
4. Describe a problem you've solved or a problem you'd like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma - anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
6. Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
7. Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.
1、Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have
positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group
efforts over time.
描述一次對他人有積極影響,解決過矛盾糾紛和在團隊中有過較長時間的貢獻的領導力經歷。
2、Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways:
problemsolving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a
few.Describe how you express your creative side.每個人都有創造力的一面,可以通過很多形式表現出來:解決問題,創新思維和藝術創造力等。描述一次能展現你創造力一面的經歷。
3、What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed
and demonstrated that talent over time?描述自己最大的天賦和能力以及你是如何發展它們的。
4、Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational
opportunityor worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.描述一次你如何利用好重要的教育機會或戰勝教育相關的困難的經歷。
5、Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you
have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your
academic achievement?描述一次你曾面臨過最重大的一次挑戰,以及如何戰勝挑戰,此次經歷對你的學業表現有何影響?
6、Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have
furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom.哪一門學科能夠給予你啟發和激勵,你是如何在課內外繼續學習這門學科的?
7、What have you done to make your school or your community a better
place?
你曾做過對你的學校和社區有益的事情嗎?
8、Beyond what has already been shared in your application, what do you
believe makes you stand out as a strong candidate for admissions to the
University of California?除了在申請中你已分享過的,你認為還有什么能讓你作為UC強有力的候選人脫穎而出?
3、獨立網申系統
有UIUC, UW-Madison, MSU等學校使用,是學校自己的申請系統。
4、CAAS系統
CAAS,全稱Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success(簡稱CAAS),是哈佛、耶魯為首的美國90多所公私立大學及文理學院合力開發創建的一個新的大學申請系統。2016年開始,美國部分學校開始接受這一系統的申請。CAAS主文書題目(5選1)
文書題目一:Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.
文書題目二:Describe a time when you made a meaningful contribution to others in which the greater good was your focus. Discuss the challenges and rewards of making your contribution.
文書題目三:Has there been a time when you’ve had a long-cherished or accepted belief challenged? How did you respond? How did the challenge affect your beliefs?
文書題目四:?What is the hardest part of being a teenager now? What’s the best part? What advice would you give a younger sibling or friend (assuming they would listen to you)?
文書題目五:Submit an essay on a topic of your choice.
注:這5個題目,不是每所成員學校都會統一要求學生去作答的。
5、附加
除此之外,一些學校會要求附加文書,如哥倫比亞大學:
1.List a few words or phrases that describe your ideal
college community.(150 words or less)
2. List the titles of the required readings from courses during the school year or summer that you enjoyed most in the past year. (150words or less)
3. List the titles of the books you read for pleasure that you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)
4. List the titles of the print, electronic publications and websites you read regularly. (150 words or less)
5. List the titles of the films, concerts, shows,exhibits, lectures and other entertainments you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)
6. Please tell us what you value most about Columbia and why.