美國留學(xué)申請文書范例

目前，美國一名高中應(yīng)屆畢業(yè)生已經(jīng)收到常春藤五所名校以及其他名校拋出的橄欖枝。她透露，自己寫的一篇關(guān)于美國好市多連鎖超市(Costco)的文章贏得了考官們的青睞。

Brittany Stinson， 18， a high school senior at Concord High School in Wilmington， Delaware， was accepted into Columbia， Cornell， Dartmouth， Yale and University of Pennsylvania。

今年18歲的布列塔尼·斯廷森，目前是特拉華州威爾明頓康科德的高中的應(yīng)屆畢業(yè)生，她已經(jīng)收到了哥倫比亞大學(xué)，康奈爾大學(xué)，達(dá)特茅斯學(xué)院，耶魯大學(xué)和賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)五所常春藤名校的錄取通知。

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The teen said she thinks what set her apart from other applicants was the essay in her college application that detailed her love of Costco。

這名少女認(rèn)為，她能從眾多申請者中脫穎而出，主要是因?yàn)樗�申請學(xué)校時寫的一篇文章，這篇文章詳細(xì)地描述了她對美國好市多超市的熱愛。

The essay prompt that Stinson responded to asked students to share “a background， identity， interest， or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it。”

斯廷森回應(yīng)其他學(xué)生時說，申請文章要求我們分享“一些有意義的背景、身份、興趣亦或是才能，如果沒有這些，你的申請可能就不完整了。”

Stinson’s essay began， “Managing to break free from my mother’s grasp， I charged。 With arms flailing and chubby legs fluttering beneath me， I was the ferocious two? year old rampaging through Costco on a Saturday morning。 My mother’s eyes widened in horror as I jettisoned my churro; the cinnamon?sugar rocket gracefully sliced its way through the air while I continued my spree。”

以下是斯廷森文章的開頭：“我成功地掙脫了媽媽的束縛，獲得了自由，我往前沖去。手臂胡亂揮舞著，小胖腿晃悠悠地走著，此時我還是一個兩歲大的小孩，一個周六的上午，在好市多超市(Costco，美國一家大型連鎖超市)到處橫沖直撞。當(dāng)我扔下手中的油條，媽媽驚恐地睜大了眼睛;我繼續(xù)作亂，肉桂糖火箭優(yōu)雅地從空中劃過。”

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“I was a conquistador， but rather than searching the land for El Dorado， I scoured aisles for free samples，” it continued。 “Before inevitably being whisked away into a shopping cart， I scaled a mountain of plush toys and surveyed the expanse that lay before me： the kingdom of Costco。”

“我是一個征服者，但是我沒有繼續(xù)在這一黃金國中搜尋，我把目標(biāo)轉(zhuǎn)向了免費(fèi)樣品區(qū)，”文章繼續(xù)寫道。“雖然我知道自己肯定會很快被抓進(jìn)購物車，但在這之前，我爬上毛絨玩具堆成的小山，掃視著我眼前的這一切：這就是好市多王國。”

Stinson said she was inspired to write about the big-box store because she wanted her applications to be unique。

斯廷森說，她之所以想要寫關(guān)于這一大型超市，是因?yàn)樗�想讓自己的申請�?dú)一無二。

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“The essay is really where it’s important to show your personality and what gets you going，” she told ABC News。 “I knew that an essay about Costco would certainly be memorable -- whether the admissions’ officer liked it or not。”

“申請文章對于展現(xiàn)你的個性，你的想法是非常重要的，”她告訴ABC(美國廣播公司)新聞。 “我知道，一篇關(guān)于好市多的文章肯定令人耳目一新，無論招生人員喜歡與否。”

Stinson was accepted into five Ivy League institutions， along with prestigious schools such as Stanford， Johns Hopkins， Northwestern， Boston University and New York University， which she said was her safety school。

目前除了五所常春藤名校，斯坦福大學(xué)，約翰霍普金斯大學(xué)，美國西北大(微博)學(xué)，波士頓大學(xué)和紐約大學(xué)，都已經(jīng)向斯廷森伸出了橄欖枝，而紐約大學(xué)曾是她的保底學(xué)校。

It also didn’t hurt that Stinson had a 4.0 GPA， took eight Advanced Placement classes， was the vice president of the Science Honors Society and the president of the National Honors Society at her school。 The teen said she also volunteers at a local hospital and worked with a University of Delaware professor on a genetics research project。

當(dāng)然斯廷森本身就很優(yōu)秀，她的學(xué)分績點(diǎn)有4.0，已經(jīng)上過八門進(jìn)階先修課程，也曾是學(xué)�？茖W(xué)榮譽(yù)學(xué)會副會長以及學(xué)校國家榮譽(yù)協(xié)會會長。這名少女說，她也是當(dāng)?shù)蒯t(yī)院的志愿者，還曾與特拉華大學(xué)的一名教授一起參與了一個遺傳學(xué)研究項(xiàng)目。

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Stinson told ABC News she’ll decide which college she’ll attend after doing campus tours later this month， but so far she really likes Yale， Stanford or Dartmouth。

斯廷森告訴ABC新聞，在本月參觀完各大院校后，她才會決定上哪所大學(xué)。但到目前為止，她真的很喜歡耶魯大學(xué)，斯坦福大學(xué)或者是達(dá)特茅斯學(xué)院。

For now， she has decided on a major： Neuroscience。

現(xiàn)在她已經(jīng)決定了自己的專業(yè)：神經(jīng)科學(xué)。