申请季已经到来，准备申请美本2018fall的小伙伴准备好了么？除了CA系统的文书题目，美国各大高校通常也会有自己的补充文书题目。最近普林斯顿大学、芝加哥大学和耶鲁大学正式发布了与普通申请文书相配套的补充文书，话题范围从“你的上两个暑假是怎么过的？”到“如果你要在耶鲁大学教一门课，那么会是什么？”
红红火火恍恍惚惚，你的梦校连补充文书都发布了，可你还搞不清楚什么是补充文书？？今天小智就带大家从补充文书的定义、内容和PS的区别开始，带各位新手上路啦！
什么是补充文书？
申请美国大学时，除了要提交通常一篇个人陈述文章（Personal Statement 简称PS）即Common Application系统里面的主文书外，很多学校还会另外出一些独具特色的文章，我们这里统称为补充文书(Supplement Essay)。
补充文书都包括什么？
1. 补充文书要求字数偏少，一般在150-250字之间，最多不超过500字。
2. 主题要求：与主文书确定的6个题目相比较，补充文书更加多元化，形式更加丰富，提问的范围更加大。
3. 一般来说，补充文书的题目设置是为了了解你是否适合这所大学。补充文书的题目很多是需要申请者提供申请该校的原因、自己为什么选择此专业、做过什么相关活动或实习等等题目，需将自己和申请院校的特点有机的结合在一起来写。
PS和Supplemental Essay的区别是什么？
在美本申请时，所有美国大学都需学生提交PS(Personal Statement)，但并不一定要交补充文书(Supplemental Essays)。除了CA系统有固定的文书题目外，其他大学的PS都不设要求，学生可以自由发挥。而补充文书题目是具体的，常见的题目有Why school（为什么选择这所学校？），Academic interests（阐述你的学术兴趣），Personal interests（阐述你的个人兴趣），Failure/Difficulties（讲述一次失败/困难的经历），Self-introduction(interests, values, and personality)（自我介绍——兴趣、价值观以及个性）。
17-18申请季美国大学Top5最新补充文书题目
普林斯顿大学
网址：
https://admission.princeton.edu/how-apply/application-checklist/princeton-supplement
Activities: Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences that was particularly meaningful to you. (Response required in about 150 words.)
请用150字简要叙述一项对你来说最有意义的课外活动或工作经历。
Summers: Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers (or vacations between school years), including any jobs you have held. (Response required in about 150 words.) 请用150字简要叙述你是如何度过最近的两个暑假或假期的，可以包括你的假期打工经历。
A Few Details（我们还想知道更多关于你的细节……简单词不翻译了）
Your favorite book and its author
Your favorite website
Your favorite recording
Your favorite source of inspiration
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title
Your favorite movie
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you
Your favorite keepsake or memento
Your favorite word
Essay: Your Voice
In addition to the essay you have written for the Common Application or the Universal College Application, please write an essay of about 500 words (no more than 650 words and no fewer than 250 words). Using one of the themes below as a starting point, write about a person, event or experience that helped you define one of your values or in some way changed how you approach the world. Please do not repeat, in full or in part, the essay you wrote for the Common Application or Universal College Application.请用500字（不少于250词不多于650词）从以下4个切入点任选一个阐述某个帮助你建立价值观或世界观的人、事件或经历：
Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way.
“One of the great challenges of our time is that the disparities we face today have more complex causes and point less straightforwardly to solutions.”Omar Wasow, assistant professor of politics, Princeton University and co-founder of Blackplanet.com. This quote is taken from Professor Wasow’s January 2014 speech at the Martin Luther King Day celebration at Princeton University.
“Culture is what presents us with the kinds of valuable things that can fill a life. And insofar as we can recognize the value in those things and make them part of our lives, our lives are meaningful.”Gideon Rosen, Stuart Professor of Philosophy and director of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows, Princeton University.
Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation, title and author at the beginning of your essay.
Engineering Essay*
If you are interested in pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, please write a 300-500 word essay describing why you are interested in studying engineering, any experiences in or exposure to engineering you have had and how you think the programs in engineering offered at Princeton suit your particular interests. *This essay is required for students who indicate Bachelor of Science in Engineering as a possible degree of study on their application.
芝加哥大学
网址：
https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/essay-questions
【必答】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.根据你现在对芝加哥大学的了解，芝加哥大学如何满足你对于学习，环境，以及未来的展望？请用具体事例来阐述你和芝加哥大学的联系。
【必答，任选一个】除了上面的题目，申请芝加哥大学2018年秋季入学的学生，还需要从以下题目中选一个来写。
Essay Option 1.“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert
Sometimes, people talk a lot about popular subjects to assure ‘victory’ in conversation or understanding, and leave behind topics of less popularity, but great personal or intellectual importance. What do you think is important but under-discussed?
Essay Option 2.Due to a series of clerical errors, there is exactly one typo (an extra letter, a removed letter, or an altered letter) in the name of every department at the University of Chicago. Oops! Describe your new intended major. Why are you interested in it and what courses or areas of focus within it might you want to explore? Potential options include Commuter Science, Bromance Languages and Literatures, Pundamentals: Issues and Texts, Ant History... a full list of unmodified majors ready for your editor’s eye is available here: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics/majors-minors.
Essay Option 3.Earth. Fire. Wind. Water. Heart! Captain Planet supposes that the world is made up of these five elements. We’re familiar with the previously-noted set and with actual elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, but select and explain another small group of things (say, under five) that you believe compose our world.
Essay Option 4.The late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham once said "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization." Tell us about your “armor.”
Essay Option 5.Fans of the movie Sharknado say that they enjoy it because “it’s so bad, it’s good.” Certain automobile owners prefer classic cars because they “have more character.” And recently, vinyl record sales have skyrocketed because it is perceived that they have a warmer, fuller sound. Discuss something that you love not in spite of but rather due to its quirks or imperfections.
Essay Option 6.In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose your own question or choose one of our past prompts. Be original, creative, thought provoking. 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.
耶鲁大学
网址：https://admissions.yale.edu/essay-topics
Students at Yale have plenty of time to explore their academic interests before committing to one or more major fields of study. Many students either modify their original academic direction or change their minds entirely. As of this moment, what academic areas seem to fit your interests or goals most comfortably? Please indicate up to three from the list provided.请从耶鲁大学的学术领域列表中选出3个最适合你的兴趣和目标的方向。
Why do these areas appeal to you? (100 words or fewer) 为什么这些领域最适合你？（不超过100字）
What is it about Yale that has led you to apply? (125 words or fewer) 请用少于125字描述是什么让你（决定）申请耶鲁大学？
Yale’s residential colleges regularly host intimate conversations with guests representing a wide range of experiences and accomplishments.What person, past or present, would you invite to speak? What question would you ask? (35 words or fewer)耶鲁大学的住宿学院会定期与有广泛经验和成就的客人进行密切的交谈。不论过去或现在，你会邀请谁发言？你会问什么问题？请在35个字以内描述你最喜欢学习什么？
What inspires you? (35 words or fewer) 请用35个字描述是什么启发了你？
You are teaching a Yale course. What is it called? (35 words or fewer) 如果让你来教一门耶鲁大学的课程，这门课会是？（不超过35字）
Most first-year Yale students live in suites of four to six people. What would you contribute to the dynamic of your suite? (35 words or fewer)大部分耶鲁大学的新生都会住在4-6人的套间宿舍，你会为你们的宿舍注入怎样的活力？（不超过35字）
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