芝加哥大学官网更新了22025-2026申请季文书。最强脑暴模式已经开启！芝加哥大学长期以来以其富有挑战性的文书题目而闻名。这些烧脑命题构建了独特的叙事角度，成为申请者展示个人经历、思想深度与人生愿景的多维舞台。
面对这些启发思考的文书题目，学生既可选择严谨缜密的学术化表达，也可挥洒恣意才情的创意书写，更可自由游走于这两种风格之间，通过文字与思想的魅力向大学展示专属自我的成长故事。
今年的文书题目一共两篇，一篇经典的“Why UChicago” Essay，另一篇是每年最吸引人且同时令人头疼的“Extended Essay”。今年的Extended Essay 采用7选1的形式，学生在7道EE题目中任选一道回答即可。
Extended Essay #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
在一个理想世界中，如果跨物种的心灵感应成为现实，你会选择和哪种生物对话？你想向它们学些什么？你会向河狸请教建筑？向章鱼探究认知？向鸽子打听导航？向蚂蚁了解治理？请为你的选择——无论是物种还是问题——陈述理由。
Extended Essay #2
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“反发明”一件事（即让它从未被发明过），你会选择什么？随之而来的连锁反应会是什么？
Extended Essay #3
"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”可以是“撒上灰尘”也可以是“除尘”；“Fast”既可以是“迅速”，也可以是“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。
Extended Essay #4
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
便士硬币即将退出历史舞台——它太小，不再有价值，同时维持它的成本也太高。但不是所有“微小的东西”都该消失。请谈谈一个正在被世界逐渐淘汰的“小事物”，你认为它不该被丢弃，并解释原因。
Extended Essay #5
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》，到音响设备公司 Audio-Technica 成为全球最大的寿司机器人制造商之一，品牌的身份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，设想一个出人意料但又逻辑合理的新产品或服务，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。
Extended Essay #6
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
从统计学角度来看，吃冰淇淋不会导致鲨鱼袭击，养宠物的支出不会影响加州律师数量，人造奶油的消费也不会导致缅因州的离婚率上升——至少传统观点如此。但如果统计学家搞错了呢？请选出你最喜欢的一个“伪相关”现象，为它可能揭示了某种深层因果关系提出辩护。
Extended Essay #7
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!
一如既往的经典题目，“由你决定剧情走向”! 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！