美国本科2020Fall入学各学校文书要求（1-10）

2019年8月1日起，美国大学本科申请common系统改用了全新的页面，这也意味着每个学校也都更新到了2020fall入学的最新文书题目。

不论学校是否沿用以往的老题目，我们把今年最新定下来的文书要求进行了统一整理，这样未来的文书写作和学校选择，都更加有指向性了，一些优秀的学子，从现在开始也可以着手收集素材，构思文书。以下为最新common 系统中 US News排名1-10的本科院校的文书题目（部分学校未出）。

No.1Pirnceton University

Princeton, NJCollege Questions：尚未更新

Writing Supplement：尚未更新

No.2 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

College Questions：

Your intellectual life may extend beyond the academic requirements of your particular school. Please use the space below to list additional intellectual activities that you have not mentioned or detailed elsewhere in your application. These could include, but are not limited to, supervised or self-directed projects not done as school work, training experiences, online courses not run by your school, or summer academic or research programs not described elsewhere. (150 words)

Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences.*  (150 words)

Writing Supplement:

You may wish to include an additional essay if you feel that the college application forms do not provide sufficient opportunity to convey important information about yourself or your accomplishments. You may write on a topic of your choice, or you may choose from one of the following topics:

- Unusual circumstances in your life

- Travel, living, or working experiences in your own or other communities

- What you would want your future college roommate to know about you

- An intellectual experience (course, project, book, discussion, paper, poetry, or research topic in engineering, mathematics, science or other modes of inquiry) that has meant the most to you

- How you hope to use your college education

- A list of books you have read during the past twelve months

- The Harvard College Honor code declares that we "hold honesty as the foundation of our community." As you consider entering this community that is committed to honesty, please reflect on a time when you or someone you observed had to make a choice about whether to act with integrity and honesty.

- The mission of Harvard College is to educate our students to be citizens and citizen-leaders for society. What would you do to contribute to the lives of your classmates in advancing this mission?

- Each year a substantial number of students admitted to Harvard defer their admission for one year or take time off during college. If you decided in the future to choose either option, what would you like to do?

- Harvard has long recognized the importance of student body diversity of all kinds. We welcome you to write about distinctive aspects of your background, personal development or the intellectual interests you might bring to your Harvard classmates.

If you plan to submit an additional essay, please select a prompt from the list below. If you do not intend to submit an additional essay, leave this question blank.

No.3 Columbia University

New York, NYCollege Questions: 不需要

Writing Supplement：

List a few words or phrases that describe your ideal college community.(150 words or less)*

List the titles of the required readings from courses during the school year or summer that you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)*

List the titles of the books you read for pleasure that you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)*

List the titles of the print, electronic publications and websites you read regularly. (150 words or less)*

List the titles of the films, concerts, shows, exhibits, lectures and other entertainments you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)*

Please tell us what you value most about Columbia and why. (300 words or less)*

No.3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA未使用common 系统

No.3 Yale University

New Haven, CTCollege Questions：尚未更新

Writing Supplement：不需要

No.3 University of Chicago

Chicago, ILCollege Questions: 不需要

Writing Supplement：

Choose one of the six extended essay options and upload a one- or two- page response.

1. Cats have nine lives, Pac-Man has 3 lives, and radioactive isotopes have half-lives. How many lives does something else—conceptual or actual—have, and why?

—Inspired by Kedrick Shin, Class of 2019

2. If there’s a limited amount of matter in the universe, how can Olive Garden (along with other restaurants and their concepts of food infinity) offer truly unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks?

Explain this using any method of analysis you wish—physics, biology, economics, history, theology… the options, as you can tell, are endless.

—Inspired by Yoonseo Lee, Class of 2023

3. A hot dog might be a sandwich, and cereal might be a soup, but is a ______ a ______?

—Inspired by Arya Muralidharan, Class of 2021 (and dozens of others who, this year and in past years, have submitted the question "Is a hot dog a sandwich," to which we reply,  "maybe")

4. “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

—Inspired by Elizabeth Mansfield, Class of 2020

5. UChicago has international campus centers around the world, but we don’t have any interplanetary, interstellar, or interdimensional campuses… yet! Propose a spot in time or space, in this or any universe, for a new 5.UChicago campus. What types of courses would be taught at this site? What cultural experiences await students who study there?

—Inspired by Peter Jasperse, Class of 2022

6. "Don't be afraid to pick past prompts! I liked some of the ones from previous years more than those made newly available for my year. Also, don't worry about the 'correct' way to interpret a question. If there exists a correct way to interpret the prompt I chose, it certainly was not my answer."  —Matthew Lohrs, Class of 2023

In the spirit ofadventurous inquiry (and with the encouragement of one of our currentstudents!) choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own).Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as awriter, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, orfuture citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and havefun! *

No.7 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

College Questions：

Briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work or family responsibilities. (50-150 words)* *

What is the most significant challenge that society faces today? (50 word limit)*

How did you spend your last two summers? (50 word limit)*

What historical moment or event do you wish you could have witnessed? (50 word limit)*

What five words best describe you?*（10 words）

When the choice is yours, what do you read, listen to, or watch? (50 word limit) *

Name one thing you are looking forward to experiencing at Stanford. (50 word limit) *

Imagine you had an extra hour in the day — how would you spend that time? (50 word limit).*

The Stanford community is deeply curious and driven to learn in and out of the classroom. Reflect on an idea or experience that makes you genuinely excited about learning. (100 to 250 words)*

Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate – and us – get to know you better. (100-250 words)* *

Tell us about something that is meaningful to you and why. (100 to 250 words)*

Writing Supplement：不需要

No.8 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PACollege Questions：不需要

Writing Supplement：

How did you discover your intellectual and academic interests, and how will you explore them at the University of Pennsylvania? Please respond considering the specific undergraduate school you have selected. (300-450 words)

For students applying to the coordinated dual-degree and specialized programs, please answer these questions in regard to your single-degree school choice; your interest in the coordinated dual-degree or specialized program may be addressed through the program-specific essay.*

At Penn, learning and growth happen outside of the classrooms, too. How will you explore the community at Penn? Consider how this community will help shape your perspective and identity, and how your identity and perspective will help shape this community. (150-200 words)*

No.8 Duke University

Durham, NCCollege Questions：不需要

Writing Supplement：

(Optional) Duke University seeks a talented, engaged student body that embodies the wide range of human experience; we believe that the diversity of our students makes our community stronger. If you'd like to share a perspective you bring or experiences you've had to help us understand you better-perhaps related to a community you belong to or your family or cultural background-we encourage you to do so. Real people are reading your application, and we want to do our best to understand and appreciate the real people applying to Duke. (250 word limit)
(Optional) Duke's commitment to diversity and inclusion includes sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. If you would like to share with us more about how you identify as LGBTQIA+, and have not done so elsewhere in the application, we invite you to do so here.

No.10 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

College Questions：

''Why Northwestern'' Statement (completion strongly recommended):

Other parts of your application give us a sense for how you might contribute to Northwestern. But we also want to consider how Northwestern will contribute to your interests and goals. In 300 words or less, help us understand what aspects of Northwestern appeal most to you, and how you'll make use of specific resources and opportunities here.

Writing Supplement：不需要

No.10 Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MDCollege Questions：不需要

Writing Supplement：

Write a brief essay (300-400 words) in which you respond to the following question.

Successful students at Johns Hopkins make the biggest impact by collaborating with others, including peers, mentors, and professors. Talk about a time, in or outside the classroom, when you worked with others and what you learned from the experience.

(300-400 Word limit) *