虽然现在距2015-16Common申请的开放日8月1日，还有不到10天的时间，但不少大学已经发布了他们的补充文书题目（supplemental essay prompts），这样申请者们就可以提前准备他们大学申请的文书。
目前来说，学生申请多达10所或者更多的大学已经屡见不鲜。一半来书，选校包括目标学校、可达到学校和保底学校，所有学校都是基于学生个人要求、学术要求和费用要求的最佳选择。有了自己的选校清单后，就需要关注学校要求学生写的补充文书题目：一般每个学校两到三篇，所以名校的申请者可能整个申请季下来要写20篇甚至更多文书。文书写作工作量非常大，在高三学年的确让人抓狂。
这也是为什么越来越多的大学今年夏天就提前公布文书题目，包括那些非通用申请系统的大学。这样，申请者们就可以赶在高三忙乱期之前提早进行头脑风暴和文书写作了。
University of Michigan
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. (Required)
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. (Optional)
Extended Essay Questions: (Required; Choose one)
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
“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
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
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” –Paul Gauguin. What is your “art”? Is it plagiarism or revolution? —Inspired by Kaitlyn Shen, Class of 2018.
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!
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.
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.
Choose one (450 words):
You have been elected President of the United States. Write your inauguration speech for us.
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." Describe a time when your perspective changed. How did your perspective change and why did it change?
If you were offered the role of the villain or the hero in a movie, which role would you accept and why?
If admitted to the University of Florida, tell us three SPECIFIC things you plan to do during your time here.
Everyone belongs to many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that community and your place within it. (Required for all applicants. Approximately 250 words.)
Describe the unique qualities that attract you to the specific undergraduate College or School (including preferred admission and dual degree programs) to which you are applying at the University of Michigan. How would that curriculum support your interests? (Required for all applicants. 500 words maximum.)
