芝加哥大学2026Fall文书出炉！

近日，芝加哥大学公布了2025-2026年招生周期的文书题目！

长期以来，芝加哥大学一直以其具有引发思考的文书问题而闻名。大学认为这些文书题目是一个独特的机会，让学生揭示真实的自我，喜好和他们的愿望。

这些问题可以用绝对严肃的态度来书写，也可以用异想天开的创造力来解决，或者两者兼而有之。每年，芝加哥大学都会向他们的新入学学生和在校学生伸出援手，邀请他们贡献附加文书主题。

他们收到的数以百计的回复往往是雄辩的，发人深省的，或者是令人愉快的、古怪的。这个过程不仅展示了学生群体的丰富想象力，也丰富了他们知识探索和自我表达的传统。

2025-2026申请季，芝加哥大学的文书题目一共两篇：

• 一篇经典的Why UChicago
• 另一篇是最有趣且令人头疼的Extended Essay, 今年的EE采取七选一的形式, 申请者任选一个问题回答即可

问题一: 必写

Part One: 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.

正如你现在所了解的，芝加哥大学是如何满足你对一种特殊的学习、社区和未来的渴望？请具体说明你自己的愿望以及它们与芝加哥大学的关系。

问题二: 拓展性文书 (必写，七选一)

Question 2: Extended Essay

(Required; Choose one)

Option 1

In an ideal world where inter-species telepathic communication exists, which species would you choose to have a conversation with, and what would you want to learn from them? Would you ask beavers for architectural advice? Octopuses about cognition? Pigeons about navigation? Ants about governance? Make your case—both for the species and the question.

--Inspired by Yvan Sugira, Class of 2029

如果在一个理想世界中，不同物种之间可以进行心灵感应式的交流，你会选择与哪种动物进行对话？你想从它们那里学到什么？你会向海狸请教建筑知识？向章鱼探究认知能力？向鸽子了解导航原理？或向蚂蚁请教治理模式？请为你的选择进行论证—既论证你选择的物种，也论证你想提出的问题。

Option2

If you could uninvent one thing, what would it be — and what would unravel as a result?

--Inspired by Eitan Fischer, Class of 2027

如果你可以“取消发明”某样东西，那会是什么？这一取消会引发哪些连锁反应？

Option3

"Left" can mean remaining or departed. "Dust" can mean to add fine particles or to remove them. "Fast" can mean moving quickly or fixed firmly in place. These contronyms—words that are their own antonyms—somehow hold opposing meanings in perfect tension. Explore a contronym: a role, identity, or experience in your life that has contained its own opposite.

--Inspired by Kristin Yi, Class of 2029

“Left”可以表示留下，也可以表示离开；“Dust”可以指撒上灰尘，也可以指清除灰尘；“Fast”既可以表示快速，也可以表示牢固不动。这些自相矛盾的词神奇地把对立的意义凝聚在一起。请以你生活中的某个身份、角色或经历为例，探索这样一个既包含本身也蕴含其对立的存在。

Option4

The penny is on its way out—too small to matter, too costly to keep. But not everything small should disappear. What’s one object the world is phasing out that you think we can’t afford to lose, and why?

--Ella Somaiya, Class of 2028

一美分硬币即将推出历史舞台—它微不足道，却维护成本高。但并不是所有的小东西都应该淘汰。请谈谈你认为当前世界正在逐步淘汰、但我们绝不能失去的一件小物件，并说明原因。

Option5

From Michelin Tires creating the Michelin Guide, to the audio equipment company Audio-Technica becoming one of the world’s largest manufacturers of sushi robots, brand identity can turn out to be a lot more flexible than we think. Choose an existing brand, company, or institution and propose an unexpected but strangely logical new product or service for them to launch. Why is this unlikely extension exactly what the world (or the brand) needs right now?

--Inspired by Julia Nieberg, Class of 2029

从米其林轮胎推出《米其林美食指南》，到音响设备品牌铁三角成为世界上最大的寿司机器人制造商之一，品牌的身份定位比我们想象中更具延展性。请选择一个现有品牌、公司或机构，提出一个出人意料但又逻辑自洽的新产品或服务方案，并阐述为什么这项“看似不相关”的拓展正是当下世界 (或该品牌) 所需要的。

Option6

Statistically speaking, ice cream doesn’t cause shark attacks, pet spending doesn’t drive the number of lawyers in California, and margarine consumption isn’t responsible for Maine’s divorce rate—at least, not according to conventional wisdom. But what if the statisticians got it wrong? Choose your favorite spurious correlation and make the case for why it might actually reveal a deeper, causative truth.

--Inspired by Adam DiMascio, Class of 2025

从统计学上讲，吃冰淇淋不会导致鲨鱼袭击，宠物消费不会推动加州律师的数量，人造黄油的消费量也不会影响缅因州的离婚率—至少根据常识是这样的。但如果统计学家错了呢？请选择一个你最喜欢的“伪相关”，并说明为什么它实际上可能揭示更深层次的因果真相。

Option7

And, as always… the classic choose your own adventure option! In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). 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!

一如既往……“自由探险”题目重磅回归！本着冒险探索的精神，你可以选择我们以往的任意一个题目，也可以自创题目。请尽情发挥你的原创力、创造力和思辨力。展现你作为一个写作者、思想者、梦想家、社会观察者、智者、世界公民—或是未来的芝加哥大学学生—的独特品质。大胆一点，也享受其中的乐趣！

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https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/essay/