除了写CA通用网申系统的主文书，美国大学还有补充文书。

　　补充文书是学校特定主题的小短文。因为学校的要求不同，字数限制通常是200-400字左右。

　　如果你申请10个大学，那么就有大概10-20篇补充文书， 如何写出完美的补充文书呢?今天，小编就为大家整理出了六大类附加文书，希望可以帮助大家从不同主题的补充文书中找出策略!

　　补充文书的六大主题

　　课外活动类

　　请简要描述你的课外活动或者工作经历。——哈佛大学

　　你之前两个暑假是怎么度过的。——斯坦福大学

　　我们知道你由于各种原因需要参加很多活动，但是你能给我们介绍你真正喜欢的活动吗?——麻省理工学院

　　加州理工学院的学生以幽默著称，无论是恶作剧、派对或者是DitchDay(加州理工学院专有聚会活动)的准备。请介绍你和常人不一样的娱乐方式?——加州理工学院

　　学术兴趣类

　　请列举你在过去几年学校课程中最喜欢的阅读书目。——哥伦比亚大学

　　当你做出学术选择后，你会阅读、聆听或者是观看什么?——斯坦福大学

　　你为什么对你所申请布朗大学的领域感兴趣，如果你没有决定，请描述你现在所参与的学术话题?——布朗大学

　　请描述你在南加州大学继续追求学术兴趣的计划。可以列举你在专业选择上的想法。——南加州大学

　　为什么选择我们学校类

　　请说明芝加哥大学如何满足你的学习、社区、未来等等方面的考虑?请说明和芝加哥大学有关的学习想法。——芝加哥大学

　　你怎么知道莱斯大学的?什么导致了你选择申请莱斯大学?——莱斯大学

　　你为什么选择西北大学?请简要描述西北大学在哪方面能够符合你的兴趣和目标，西北大学怎么吸引你，你又怎么能使用好学校的资源?——西北大学

　　社区影响类

　　请你分享自我身份认知或者是家人文化背景，让我们真正了解申请杜克大学的你。——杜克大学

　　乔治城大学是一个群体多样化的大学，我们想知道你如何形容自己的多样化，请简单介绍自己。——乔治城大学

　　每个人都属于许多不同的社群或除此之外的要素(共享的地理，宗教，种族，收入，美食，兴趣，种族，意识形态或知识遗产)所定义的群体。选择你所属的一个社群，并描述社群和你做的事情。——密歇根大学

　　挑战类

　　请介绍现在当前社会面临最重要的挑战。——斯坦福大学

　　经验教导我们在作出重大决策时要反思的重要性。分享一个最近的事件的例子，一个领导者或一个普通人面临困难的选择。决定的后果是什么?你会做同样的事吗?——波士顿学院

　　艺术家布鲁斯·努曼(Bruce Nauman)曾经说过：“让我留在工作室中的其中一个原因是，我经常要或多或少地重新开始一切。”每个人都以不同的方式处理失败;对于大多数艺术家的失败是一个重新开始的机会。告诉我们您失败的案例，以及如何影响您的成长。——塔夫茨大学

　　其他类

　　地球。火。风。水。心!船长行星认为世界是由这五个要素组成的。我们熟悉前面提到的集合，以及氢，氧和碳等实际元素，但是选择并解释一些你认为构成我们世界的一小部分事情(比如五分之一以下)。——芝加哥大学

　　有什么历史时刻或者事件你希望你能够亲眼见证?——斯坦福大学

　　圣母大学的教育理念围绕五项核心原则，灵感来源于圣十字会众教会创始人圣保罗•莫罗(Paul Fauer)。 圣经教育的这些原则或支柱是思维，心灵，热心，家庭和希望，他们今天继续塑造我们的学生。 哪个支柱或支柱与你最共鸣? 为什么?——圣母大学

　　1. 你对谁负责?

　　2. 你知道一件事情是什么?

　　3. 告诉我们最近在你们社区发生的重大事情。 为什么对你很重要?

　　最后附上，普林斯顿、密歇根大学、波士顿学院等12所大学的文书题目，赶紧来认领自己梦校的题目。

　　波士顿学院

　　四选一 (400 word limit)

　　1. Human beings have a creative side that tends to shine most when we are truly invested in the world around us. Describe a situation when you responded effectively to a particular need and found yourself at your creative best.

　　2. Experience teaches us the importance of being reflective when making major decisions. Share an example from a recent event when a leader or an average person faced a difficult choice. What were the consequences of the decision? Would you have done the same?

　　3. Boston College strives to provide an undergraduate learning experience emphasizing the liberal arts, quality teaching, personal formation, and engagement of critical issues. If you had the opportunity to create your own college course, what enduring question or contemporary problem would you address and why?

　　4. Jesuit education stresses the importance of the liberal arts and sciences, character formation, commitment to the common good, and living a meaningful life. How do you think your personal goals and academic interests will help you grow both intellectually and personally during college?

　　乔治城大学

　　乔治城大学要求的补充essay比较多，包括1篇Short Essay+2篇Brief Essays，题目分别如下：

　　Short Essay: Briefly discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved. (approximately one-half page)

　　Compose two brief essays (approximately one page single-spaced each) on the topics given below.

　　Essay One:(所有申请者适用)

　　As Georgetown is a diverse community, the Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you.

　　Essay Two:(申请不同学院指定题目不同)

　　申请Georgetown学院: Please relate your interest in studying at Georgetown University to your goals. How do these thoughts relate to your chosen course of study? (If you are applying to major in the FLL or in a Science, please specifically address those interests.)

　　申请护理健康研究学院: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying health care at Georgetown University. Please specifically address your intended major (Health Care Management & Policy, Human Science, International Health, or Nursing).

　　申请外交服务学院: Briefly discuss a current global issue, indicating why you consider it important and what you suggest should be done to deal with it.

　　申请商学院: The McDonough School of Business is a national and global leader in providing graduates with essential ethical, analytical, financial and global perspectives. Please discuss your motivations for studying business at Georgetown.

　　佐治亚理工学院

　　佐治亚理工学院的补充essay有2篇：

　　1. Beyond rankings, location, and athletics, why are you interested in attending Georgia Tech? (max 150 words)

　　2. 以下文书题目3选1：(不多于150词)

　　Tech’s motto is Progress and Service. We find that students who ultimately have a broad impact first had a significant one at home. What is your role in your immediate or extended family? And how have you seen evidence of your impact on them?

　　Georgia Tech is always looking for innovative undergraduates. Have you had any experience as an entrepreneur? What would you like Georgia Tech to provide to further your entrepreneurial interests?

　　We challenge our students to "be comfortable being uncomfortable". Tell us about a time in high school that you felt outside of your comfort zone and the resolution.

　　约翰霍普金斯大学

　　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. (Up to 400 words).

　　普林斯顿大学

　　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.)

　　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.)

　　A Few Details

　　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(不少于250词不多于650词)

　　以下切入点任选一个：

　　1. Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way.

　　2. “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.

　　3. “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.

　　4. 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

　　Question 1 (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.

　　Question 2 (选答): 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.

　　Extended Essay Questions: (必答，6选1)

　　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. 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 Timesphotographer 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 Sharknadosay 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.

　　密歇根大学

　　Essay #1 (适用所有申请者，250 words左右) 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.

　　Essay #2 (适用新生，最多500 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?

　　Essay #2 (适用转学生，最多500 words) Describe the unique qualities that attract you to the specific undergraduate College or School to which you are applying at the University of Michigan. How would that curriculum support your interests?

　　北卡教堂山分校

　　四选二(200-250词)

　　1. Tell us about a peer who has made a difference in your life.

　　2. What do you hope will change about the place where you live?

　　3. What is one thing that we don’t know about you that you want us to know?

　　4. What about your background, or what perspective, belief, or experience, will help you contribute to the education of your classmates at UNC?

　　宾夕法尼亚大学

　　How will you explore your intellectual and academic interests at the University of Pennsylvania? Please answer this question given the specific undergraduate school to which you are applying. (400-650 words) *For students applying to the coordinated dual-degree programs, please answer this question in regards to your single-degree school choice. Interest in coordinated dual-degree programs will be addressed through those program-specific essays.

　　弗吉尼亚大学

　　1. We are looking for passionate students to join our diverse community of scholars, researchers, and artists. Answer the question that corresponds to the school/program to which you are applying in a half page or roughly 250 words.

　　College of Arts and Sciences - What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?

　　School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - If you were given funding for a small engineering project that would make everyday life better for one friend or family member, what would you design?

　　School of Architecture - Describe an instance or place where you have been inspired by architecture or design.

　　School of Nursing - School of Nursing applicants may have experience shadowing, volunteering, or working in a health care environment. Tell us about a health care-related experience or another significant interaction that deepened your interest in studying Nursing

　　Kinesiology Program - Discuss experiences that led you to choose the kinesiology major.

　　2. Answer one of the following questions in a half page or roughly 250 words.

　　What’s your favorite word and why?

　　We are a community with quirks, both in language and in traditions. Describe one of your quirks and why it is part of who you are.

　　Student self-governance, which encourages student investment and initiative, is a hallmark of the UVA culture. In her fourth year at UVA, Laura Nelson was inspired to create Flash Seminars, one-time classes which facilitate high-energy discussion about thought-provoking topics outside of traditional coursework. If you created a Flash Seminar, what idea would you explore and why?

　　UVA students paint messages on Beta Bridge when they want to share information with our community. What would you paint on Beta Bridge and why is this your message?

　　维克森林大学

　　1. List five books you have read that piqued your curiosity. (you will have to indicate if it was a required reading)

　　2. Discuss the work of fiction you have read which has helped you most to understand the complexity of the world.

　　3. While division in American politics suggests that the art of persuasion has lost value, dialogue and debate helps define the Wake Forest community. On what issue do you wish to persuade others? What is your argument?

　　4. 59% of Wake Forest’s Class of 2017 received academic credit for faculty-directed research across academic disciplines. Describe a specific academic assignment that sparked an academic curiosity you hope to explore further in college.

　　5. What have you learned about yourself from engaging with someone different from you?

　　6. Give us your top ten list. First, please provide a theme.

　　7. You have a popular podcast. What’s the title? What’s the topic?

　　8. During the 2017-2018 academic year, Wake Forest University is launching a year-long Rethinking Community initiative. Use your imagination to rethink your school community and your place in it.

　　伊利诺伊香槟分校

　　1. Explain your interest in the major you selected and describe how you have recently explored or developed this interest inside and/or outside the classroom. You may also explain how this major relates to your future career goals. If you’re applying to the Division of General Studies, explain your academic interests and strengths or your future career goals. You may include any majors or areas of study you’re currently considering. Limit your response to 300 to 400 words.

　　2. If you select a second-choice major other than the Division of General Studies on your application, write a second essay explaining your interest in this major, too. Again, limit your response to 300 to 400 words.