Georgetown University 申请人，在写作时的相关经典真题解析
1.Short essay
In the space available discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved.
【类别】相关经历型
【关键词】significance, school, summer activity, most involved
【题目翻译】谈谈你参与最多的一个学校或暑期活动对你的重要性。
【题目分析】本题要求申请者介绍的是一个活动，不限课内课外，只要求一点——对申请者来说是“significant”且是“most involved”的。相信符合条件的活动不会只有一件，因此，申请者需要判断，这件对自己有重要意义的事件所教会自己的东西，或者给自己带来的影响，是否是招生官想要了解的内容。因此，参加什么样的活动并不重要，重要的是，在参加这个活动的过程中你学到了什么，它对你有什么影响，或它体现了你的哪方面能力、潜质或性格特征。介绍清楚了以上几点，自然而然也就体现出了为什么这个活动对你来说非常有意义。
【范文】
Every other week, I volunteer at a local school library. Libraries were my favorite places when I was in school, enjoying them because of the quiet and comforting environment. But I did not know the library itself was a great book until I started volunteer work.
My duty was to put away the books returned by students and put them back in the places they belonged, perform some cleaning, and maintain the order of books on shelves. I was thinking this kind of physical work was simple and easily repeated. I thought that if I were the librarian, I would be bored to death! But on the other hand, I was kind of looking forward to this simple work. However, when I walked around in the library I found that most of the librarians were focused on whatever they were reading, some were taking serious notes, and some had a pile of related books in front of them. That reminded me of the times when I checked out books from library, and would see the librarian in charge of scanning the borrowed books. They were always holding books and reading carefully. They were the ones that knew the library best, and could immediately point out a book’s location if I was unable to find it. They were in the richest of treasuries and did not waste their time there. (229 words)
【范文解析】
作者介绍的是经常参加的图书馆义工活动，观察到其中的工作人员，虽然进行着看起来很清闲的工作，但是大部分人都充分利用图书馆里的藏书，不时补充着新知。这提醒了作者两点：一是学习永不停止;一是要学会充分利用身边的资源，不要让它们和时间一起被浪费。这个活动中的细小观察所带来的感悟，对于个人进步来说是非常重要的。大学也非常看重在进入学校以后，学生能否充分利用好学校提供的各种设施和学习资源。
2.Essay
Compose two brief essays (approximately one page each) on the topics given below. Essays should be typewritten. Attach the required essays to the top of this page.
从以下问题中选两个写两篇简短的文章
Essay one (All applicants)
The Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please respond to one of the following two prompts:
录取委员会想要更多地通过你自己的描述了解你。请在以下两个问题中任选其一进行回答：
(A) Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describe you.
【类别】自我介绍型
【关键词】personal, creative, best describe you
【题目翻译】请写一篇你认为最能描述你自己的简文(个人的或创新的)。
【题目分析】大家都知道，仅仅通过一篇简短的文章是不可能将一个人的方方面面都展示出来的，那么，在有限的篇幅里，想要很好地展现自己，唯一的办法就是把自己最具特色的个性特点、最引人瞩目的强项展现出来。更何况，对象也十分明确，就是学校的招生官，因此申请者的写作目标也是十分明确的，即让他们看到自己最优秀的一面、最符合学校价值观的一面。例如，学校喜欢有责任心、有进取心、有毅力的人，那么申请者身上具备哪一点或是几点?通过生动的事例，将其展现出来，让招生官了解你确实很符合学校的录取要求，那么这篇文章就是成功的。
【范文】
My parents would say I am a stubborn kid. Since primary school, I have always insisted on finishing all my homework before dinner, and would not do anything else before figuring out the word problem in my math homework or the essay in my Chinese homework.
My teachers would say I am an annoying student. I always chase after them for further explanations or discussions about questions I had during classes, and I ask them so many questions that they feel a lot of pressure when they see me.
My friends would say I am the type of friend they hate and love. I am obsessed with correcting them, no matter whether in pronunciation when they are talking or in their use of the wrong words in messages or Weibo.
To me, I am doing the right things no matter what each of these groups accuse me of, and I enjoy it. (152 words)
【范文解析】
文章简短地从三个方面介绍了自己，但是，是以假想的方式从父母、老师和朋友的立场来评价自己是什么样的人——固执，烦人，又爱又恨。看起来都是不太好的评价，但是紧随评价之后的原因事例，展现的是一个对自身严格要求、对问题追根究底、对细节一丝不苟的正面形象，带来一种引人入胜的吸引力。最后作者总结，自己虽然在他人眼里可能是做得太过火的怪人，自己却是乐在其中。一定要注意每一个特质表现的背后都要有故事或者是细节来做支撑。
(B) Describe an experience you have had living or working in a diverse community. How might that experience help you to contribute to the life of a university community like Georgetown?
【类别】相关经历型 个人贡献型
【关键词】experience, living or working in a diverse community, contribute to Georgetown
【题目翻译】描述你曾经在一个多元化环境中学习或生活的经历。这个经历将如何帮助你为Georgetown大学做出贡献。
【题目分析】首先，本题的要求是这个生活或者工作经验是发生在一个多元化的社区里。那么申请者需要了解，多元化的社区会有哪些特点和不同之处?比起单一社区来讲，多元化的环境肯定充斥着文化、思想等等的多样性、复杂性。那么针对这个特点，它能带给你怎样不同于一般环境的经历，又能培养你一些什么样的能力?举例来说，能在多元化的环境里工作生活得顺利，参与者本身肯定需要具备包容的心态和出色的沟通能力等等，这些经历往往能培养人们出色的适应能力。这正如在Georgetown University——这里是充满自由和未知因素的地方，不同肤色、不同文化背景和不同思维的人聚集在一起。申请者将如何处理这个状况?
本题实际是以经历影射未来，即你在曾经生活过的那个环境里学到了哪些技能，取得过哪些成绩，某种程度上可以预示在GU你可能发挥的特长以及可能会有的作为。因此在介绍以往的生活经历时，要体现自己在多元化的环境中的角色以及做出的贡献，以此暗示你能给学校做出怎样的贡献。
【范文】
My aunt was an English teacher at University, and so has a lot of foreign friends. Saying hello to them or talking to them was never a big thing for me; but last summer vacation, a boy from London was assigned to us as his homestay family in China, which turned out to be a big thing for me because I had never actually lived with a foreigner. My parents were as nervous as I was, and hoped we would all get along well. We all felt really excited and couldn’t wait for him to come.
The first day we met I was too shy to talk to him, and so my aunt was basically the only one who chatted with him. Still, I listened to the conversation, and learned a lot about him: this was his first trip to China, he loved playing Xbox and he played the piano.
But after the first two days, we grew closer. I showed him around our city and told him about my life there, and he told me about his life too; I learned that his family was actually from the Republic of Ghana, but that he was born and raised in London, so he knew very little about his family’s home. Since I was so interested in Britain, he shared a lot of information with me.
The welcome meal we had was in a restaurant, so one day I suggested making hotpot ourselves at home, and to my surprise he had never heard of hotpot! I explained every detail to him during the preparation, like how to prepare for a hotpot, how the food would cook and how to eat it. We helped my mom cut the mushrooms into pieces and washed the vegetables. He taught me related English words while we did the preparation work together.
He was so curious about hotpot, and even took photos and said that he wanted to post them on Facebook and share them with his friends.
After dinner, he offered to teach us how to dance, and for the very first time I learned that just touching my head, shoulders and knees, I could make moves that looked like a real dance. We pushed the table and chairs out of the way, and my parents joined in too. The music played through over and over again, and everyone was very happy throughout.
I will never forget the feeling of sharing different cultural customs, listening to his foreign stories, and dancing, and am happy that we opened up new worlds for each other. (428 words)
【范文解析】
文中介绍的是一个外国男生在作者家homestay的经历。作者的家庭是host family，接待了从未来过中国的外国男孩。第一次与来自不同文化背景、不同国度的同龄人相处是让作者最紧张的事，但是在交流中，他们分享了各自的生活。作者作为一个文化引导者，向来访者展示了中国人的日常生活。而男生作为回报，也教给大家在party上能快速融入的舞蹈。作者既处理好了自己的紧张和不安，又很好地让文化交流得到了实现。