不知不觉中，2019的留学申请已拉开序幕，美国名校开始陆续公布最新招生政策，其中各项变动引人瞩目。今天，我们就来看看最受关注的卡耐基梅隆大学、芝加哥大学和加州系大学以及都做出了哪些调整！

【卡耐基梅隆大学】

不再接受补充材料，校友面试取消。

为了提升学校的多样性和包容性教学环境，学校决定降低甚至取消招生过程中的部分要求，其中对中国留学生影响较大的政策包括不再接受补充材料和校友面试取消，更多细则如下：

1、附加文书变成多篇短文书，旨在充分了解学生的背景、兴趣、才能和个性特点。

2、取消校友面试，同时加强校友对于已录取学生的引导和影响。

3、校内面试不再起到申请评估作用，而是帮助学生根据自己的兴趣寻找匹配的项目。

4、Waitlist不再需要补充推荐信、补充个人项目进展、到学校拜访或致电招生办，只需在合适的时间给招生办写一段简短的以表现自身特质的小文书。

5、不再鼓励提交补充材料，如：简历、研究报告、学术论文、多媒体展示、作品集等。

【芝加哥大学】

芝加哥大学的新政策中，即将取消校园面试，而校友和校内访谈将被两分钟的视频介绍取代，申请者也可以选择不提交这份视频，但这无疑更能向招生官展示学生的口语水平和自身综合素质，让申请者更具竞争力。

芝加哥大学也在官网上公布了19年的申请文书题目，大家一起来关注下究竟芝大的文书有多“奇葩”呢?

【必写】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.（芝加哥大学如何满足你对于学习、群体和将来的渴望？请具体说说你的期待以及它们如何和芝加哥联系起来。）

【必写，请在以下题目任选一题】

Question 2: Extended Essay (Required; Choose one)

1) Essay Option 1

In 2015, the city of Melbourne, Australia created a "tree-mail" service, in which all of the trees in the city received an email address so that residents could report any tree-related issues. As an unexpected result, people began to email their favorite trees sweet and occasionally humorous letters. Imagine this has been expanded to any object (tree or otherwise) in the world, and share with us the letter you’d send to your favorite.（2015年澳大利亚墨尔本发明了“树信”服务，城市中所有的树都有专属邮箱，市民可以通过写邮件的方式报告和树有关的事情。出乎意料的是人们开始给最喜爱的树发温馨和偶尔幽默的信。想象这种做法延展到世界上其他物体（树或者其他），你会给你的最爱发什么？）

2) Essay Option 2

You’re on a voyage in the thirteenth century, sailing across the tempestuous seas. What if, suddenly, you fell off the edge of the Earth?（13世纪，你航行在狂风暴雨波涛汹涌的海中。假如突然间你跌落到地球的边缘会如何？）

3) Essay Option 3

The word floccinaucinihilipilification is the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant or of having no value. It originated in the mid-18th century from the Latin words "floccus," "naucum," "nihilum," and "pilus"—all words meaning “of little use.” Coin your own word using parts from any language you choose, tell us its meaning, and describe the plausible (if only to you) scenarios in which it would be most appropriately used.（所有词语意思都是“无用的”。使用任何语言中的任何部分发明你的专属单词，请告诉我们这个单词的含义，并描述合理使用它的情况（如果仅适用于你）。）

4) Essay Option 4

Lost your keys? Alohomora. Noisy roommate? Quietus. Feel the need to shatter windows for some reason? Finestra. Create your own spell, charm, jinx, or other means for magical mayhem. How is it enacted? Is there an incantation? Does it involve a potion or other magical object? If so, what's in it or what is it? What does it do?（丢了钥匙？Alohomora.嘈杂的室友？Quietus.出于某种原因需要猛地关上窗户？Finestra. 请创造有破坏力的专属咒语、魔力、诅咒。它是如何起效的？有咒语吗？ 它是否涉及魔药或其他魔法物体？ 如果是这样，它里面有什么或者它是什么？ 它有什么作用？）

5) Essay Option 5

Imagine you’ve struck a deal with the Dean of Admissions himself, Dean Nondorf. It goes as follows: you’re guaranteed admission to the University of Chicago regardless of any circumstances that arise. This bond is grounded on the condition that you’ll obtain a blank, 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, and draw, write, sketch, shade, stencil, paint etc., anything and everything you want on it; your only limitations will be the boundaries of both sides on the single page. Now the catch… your submission, for the rest of your life, will always be the first thing anyone you meet for the first time will see. Whether it’s at a job interview, a blind date, arrival at your first Humanities class, before you even say, “hey,” they’ll already have seen your page, and formulated that first impression. Show us your page. What’s on it, and why? If your piece is largely or exclusively visual, please make sure to share a creator's accompanying statement of at least 300 words, which we will happily allow to be on its own, separate page.    

PS: This is a creative thought experiment, and selecting this essay prompt does not guarantee your admission to UChicago.

（想象一下，你与招生办公室主任Dean Nondorf达成协议：无论发生何种情况，你都可以保证进入芝加哥大学。前提是，你将获得一张空白的8.5 x 11张纸，可以通过画、写、描、涂、印、漆等方式写你任何想要的内容；你唯一的限制将是这张纸的边界。现在，隐情来了......你提交的内容将会是你接下来的人生中永远是你第一次见到的人会看到的第一样东西。无论是在面试、约会、第一次人文课程，甚至在你说“嘿”之前，他们都已经看到了你的纸，并且形成了第一印象。向我们展示你的这张纸。这上面有什么，为什么？如果您的作品大部分或全部是可视化的，请务必附上至少300字的创作说明，创作说明可单独写在一张纸上。）

6) 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.（请创造你自己的问题或者选择我们过往的问题。）

【耶鲁大学】

耶鲁大学不再将SAT/ACT的写作分数作为申请的强制要求，且不参加写作考试的学生在录取过程中也不会处于不利地位。耶鲁方面表示，这项决定是为了让学生们不用因为SAT/ACT作文额外考试费用而放弃申请耶鲁。

耶鲁文书又有哪些变化呢？

1. Short Answer Questions

1) Students at Yale have plenty of time to explore their academic interests before committing to one or more major fields of study. Many students either modify their original academic direction or change their minds entirely. As of this moment, what academic areas seem to fit your interests or goals most comfortably? Please indicate up to three from the list provided.

2) Why do these areas appeal to you? 

(100 words or fewer)

3) What is it about Yale that has led you to apply?

 (125 words or fewer)

4) What inspires you?

 (35 words or fewer)

5) Yale’s residential colleges regularly host conversations with guests representing a wide range of experiences and accomplishments. What person, past or present, would you invite to speak? What question would you ask?

 (35 words or fewer)

6) You are teaching a Yale course. What is it called? (35 words or fewer)

7) Most first-year Yale students live in suites of four to six people. What do you hope to add to your suitemates’ experience? What do you hope they will add to yours? (35 words or fewer)

2. Essays

1) Think about an idea or topic that has been intellectually exciting for you. Why are you drawn to it?

2) Reflect on your engagement with a community to which you belong. How do you feel you have contributed to this community?

3) Yale students, faculty, and alumni engage issues of local, national, and international importance. Discuss an issue that is significant to you and how your college experience might help you address it.

Applicants submitting the Common Application: Please choose two of the topics above and respond to each in 250 words or fewer.

Applicants submitting the Coalition Application: Please choose one of the topics above and respond in 300 words or fewer. In addition to writing on your chosen topic, upload an audio file, video, image, or document you have created that is meaningful to you and relates to your essay. Above your essay, include a one-sentence description of what you have submitted.

Please limit your upload to the following file types: mp3, mov, jpeg, word, pdf. Note that advanced editing of audio/video/image/documents is not necessary. While we are not providing limits to the length of the material you upload, the Admissions Office may not have time to review the entirety of your submission. Sometimes, less is more.

Uploads provided via the Coalition Application will be reviewed by the Admissions Office only. If you wish to submit material that may be evaluated by Yale faculty, please see our Supplementary Material instructions.

3. Optional Engineering Essay - For Applicants submitting the Coalition Application or Common Application

If you selected one of the engineering majors, please tell us more about what has led you to an interest in this field of study, what experiences (if any) you have had in engineering, and what it is about Yale’s engineering program that appeals to you. Please respond in 300 words or fewer.

【UC系大学】

UC系大学2019年的申请文书题目不变，申请人从所给的8个题目中任选4个来写，每篇essay不超过350个词。UC建议每个人选择与自己经历最相关的问题来写，以便更好地凸显自己的长处。UC官方强调，文书最重要的是要表达你自己是谁，你最看重的是什么，你最想分享的是什么。