芝加哥大学一直备受留学生的青睐，芝大的中国学生也比较多。芝加哥大学的附加essay题目一直以“奇葩”著称，很多同学申请完都会吐槽这都是什么题。最近，芝加哥大学发布了2022-2023申请季的附加essay题目。今年，又有哪些奇葩的题型呢？一起看看吧！

【23申请季芝加哥大学附加essay题目】

Question 1（必选）

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.

翻译：就你现在所知，芝加哥大学如何满足你对学习氛围、社区和未来的期望?请具体说明自己的愿望以及它们与芝加哥大学的联系。

Question 2（6选1）

第二题为Extended Essay，同学们可以在6个文章主题中选择1个作答。

Essay Option 1

Was it a cat I saw? Yo-no-na-ka, ho-ka-ho-ka na-no-yo (Japanese for “the world is a warm place”). Może jutro ta dama da tortu jeżom (Polish for “maybe tomorrow that lady will give a cake to the hedgehogs”). Share a palindrome in any language, and give it a backstory.

翻译：Was it a cat I saw?（我看到的是一只猫吗？）

Yo-no-na-ka, ho-ka-ho-ka na-no-yo（日语“世界是一个温暖的地方”）

Może jutro ta dama da tortu jeżom（波兰语“也许明天那位女士会给刺猬蛋糕”）

分享任何语言的回复（指正读和反读都相同的词汇或句子），并给它一个背景故事。

Essay Option 2

What advice would a wisdom tooth have?

翻译：如果智齿会说话，智齿会给你什么样的忠告/建议？

Essay Option 3

You are on an expedition to found a colony on Mars, when from a nearby crater, a group of Martians suddenly emerges. They seem eager to communicate, but they're the impatient kind and demand you represent the human race in one song, image, memory, proof, or other idea. What do you share with them to show that humanity is worth their time?

翻译：你正在探索火星上的殖民地，从附近的陨石坑中出现了一群火星人。他们似乎渴望交流，但他们没有耐心，要求你通过一首歌、一张图片、一张记忆、一张证明或其他什么东西展示人类的特质。你会和他们分享什么，以证明人类是值得他们花时间了解的?

Essay Option 4

UChicago has been affiliated with over 90 Nobel laureates. But, why should economics, physics, and peace get all the glory? You are tasked with creating a new category for the Nobel Prize. Explain what it would be, why you chose your specific category, and the criteria necessary to achieve this accomplishment.

翻译：芝加哥大学有90多位诺贝尔奖得主。但是，为什么荣誉都归于经济、物理和和平呢？现在给你一个任务：创建一个新的诺贝尔奖类别。解释你会设立什么奖项，为什么选择这个类别，以及获得该奖项需要达到什么标准。

Essay Option 5

Genghis Khan with an F1 racecar. George Washington with a SuperSoaker. Emperor Nero with a toaster. Leonardo da Vinci with a Furby. If you could give any historical figure any piece of technology, who and what would it be, and why do you think they’d work so well together?

翻译：给Genghis Khan一辆F1赛车；给George Washington一把水枪；给Emperor Nero一台烤面包机；给Leonardo da Vinci一个菲比玩偶。如果你能给任何一个历史人物任何一项技术产品，你会把什么东西给到哪一个人？为什么这样分配？

Essay Option 6

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!

翻译：经典的自我发挥的题目。

从以往的题目里中一个，或者你自拟一个题目，需要有原创性和创造力，引人深思。展示你作为作家，思想家，畅想家，社会评论家，贤哲，世界公民或芝加哥大学未来成员的特质。

芝加哥大学今年的附加essay题目可谓是“奇葩”到了更上一层楼，看了这些题目的你敢不敢、想不想来挑战一下？

不过，尽管芝加哥大学的essay看上去天马行空，但是万变不离其宗，其实芝大希望同学们可以通过这些essay去展现自己的独特想法，你如何去处理和分析这样“天马行空”的问题？而这也是招生官们想看到的。