芝加哥大学前几天公布了今年的题目, 看了这几个正经八百又带点古灵精怪的题目, 你有信心自我发挥, 写出三篇以上绝佳的申请论文, 打败92.2%的其他申请人, 赢得那张最后入学芝加哥大学的录取信吗？请注意!这可只是一所大学的申请论文要求喔!  一般学生都申请十多所, 想想看要怎麽能完美呈现这些难死人的申请资料呢？我觉得还是来找哈佛全方位帮帮忙吧！

2015-16 UChicago Supplement:

Question 1 (Required): 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.

芝加哥大学教学环境的哪一部份, 可以满足你的求知慾为你的未来圆梦？

Question 2 (Optional): Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

你最喜欢的书, 诗, 作者, 电影, 话剧, 音乐, 音乐家, 表演家, 艺术家, 部落格, 杂志, 报纸是什麽？你也可以提出不在以上范围的事物

Extended Essay Questions: (Required; Choose one)

Essay Option 1. Orange is the new black, fifty’s the new thirty, comedy is the new rock ‘n’ roll, ____ is the new ____. What’s in, what’s out, and why is it being replaced? —Inspired by Payton Weidenbacher, Class of 2015

橘色就是新时代的黑色, 五十年代就是新时代的三十年代, 喜剧就是新时代的摇滚, _____ 就是新时代的 ______, 什麽流行? 什麽不流行了? 请你自行发挥并说明它为什麽被取代了

Essay Option 2. “I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.” –Maxine Hong Kingston. What paradoxes do you live with? —Inspired by Danna Shen, Class of 2019

我知道我必须打该心胸， 因为世界无奇不有， 所以也有很多矛盾无解的事.   请问你有什麽矛盾无解的事情？

Essay Option 3. Joan of Arkansas. Queen Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Mash up a historical figure with a new time period, environment, location, or occupation, and tell us their story. —Inspired by Drew Donaldson, Class of 2016 Joan of Arkansas. Queen Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

请把历史人物颠倒时空再帮他们换环境, 地点, 职业, 编个新的故事出来.

Essay Option 4. “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” –Paul Gauguin. What is your “art”? Is it plagiarism or revolution? —Inspired by Kaitlyn Shen, Class of 2018.

艺术就是抄袭或者创新, 你的艺术是抄袭或是创新?

Essay Option 5. Rerhceseras say it’s siltl plisbsoe to raed txet wtih olny the frist and lsat ltteres in palce. This is beaucse the hamun mnid can fnid oderr in dorsdier. Give us your best example of finding order in disorder. (For your reader’s sake, please use full sentences with conventional spelling). —Also inspired by Payton Weidenbacher, Class of 2015. Payton is extra-inspirational this year!

研究显示可以只读第一个跟最后一个字母, 这是因为人脑可以从乱中找出秩序 （以上文字字母都乱拼）. 请给我们一个你可以在乱中找到秩序的例子, 你可以当然也可以乱拼字母.

Essay Option 6. In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose a question of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. 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.

请自己发明一个自创又深思的申请论文的题目, 答案要能够显示你是一个多麽棒的作家, 有远见, 又能社会批判, 是一个有智慧的世界公民, 你可以冒点风险有趣的发挥.

Essay Option 7. In the spirit of historically adventurous inquiry, to celebrate the University of Chicago’s 125th anniversary, please feel free to select from any of our past essay questions.

为了纪念芝加哥大学 125 周年, 你可以选择以往我们所要求的任何一个申请论文来发挥.