Application and Essays
You can apply to Stanford by submitting online either the Coalition Application or the Common Application.
Both applications include essay prompts for your personal essay. In addition to the personal essay, you also need to reply to the Stanford Questions, which you can access in either application once you add Stanford University to your list of colleges.
When you apply to Stanford, we encourage you to indicate potential majors and career interests in the application, but please know you are not bound by these selections in any way.
Stanford Questions
We ask applicants to choose one of the three topics below and write a short essay.
◆ Reflect on an idea or experience that makes you genuinely excited about learning in Stanford.
◆Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate know you belter.
◆Tell us about something that is meaningful to you, and why? How to Submit Required Materials
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With paper flowers and music hanging around in the air, Lyu Jun was hosting a small farewell ceremony at an industrial zone in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. It was a funeral for a pet dog. Lyu came up with the idea of becoming a pet mortician (殡葬师) four years ago when he was preparing to start a business.
"At that time, there was only one brick-and-mortar(实体的) business that provided funeral services for pets in Shenzhen, but hundreds of pets die every day in this city," he said. According to Lyu, many pet owners used to bury the remains of their beloved animals near their homes, which had a harmful impact on the environment and created the risk of spreading disease.
He saw a gap in the market for someone able to properly handle the death of pets. "A pet funeral service provides treatment of the bodies that is harm-free, and it is the greatest comfort to pet owners," Lyu said.
He takes good care of the remains of the pets and tidies up their appearance before the funeral. In addition, he prepares funeral addresses and selects suitable tombs for the pets. He also films funerals for owners who cannot attend the ceremonies, and provides paper and pens for those who want to write down their blessings and hang the notes on the wishing tree.
Over the past four years, Lyu has bid farewell to more than 2,000 dogs, cats and other kinds of animals. He also does volunteer work in his spare time to promote responsible dog raising. "The pet funeral service industry is still in its babyhood, and I hope there will be a set of strict standards for people who take on this job and a belter environment for the industry," Lyu said.
According to a survey, the waste of food on the dining table occupies 10% of the total grain output. Last week Meituan co-published a proposal with a number of business organizations, calling on restaurants to stop food waste and help develop new eating habits for customers. "Restaurants should use official accounts on social media and live-streaming to promote and advocate food-saving actions," the proposal said.
Meituan and the organizations are advocating that merchants offer guidance for consumers, including reminding them during the ordering process about the taste of the ingredients, portion sizes and other information about the dishes, to help them avoid food waste due to misleading information.
Catering associations in more than 18 provinces have also joined the campaign to remove food waste. The Wuhan Catering Association proposed an "N-1" ordering code for restaurants in which a group of 10 diners would only order enough for nine people. More food is only brought to the table if required. It has inspired people to rethink their relationship with food and waste.
On Friday, the China Cuisine Association announced that it had teamed up with Ele. me, a food delivery platform, to launch a " half-dish plan", encouraging restaurants to provide customers with the option to order smaller portions. Besides, customers are encouraged to take their leftovers home.
To reduce food waste on social media platforms, some popular video platforms have stepped up content reviews of food-related live streams and implemented regulation of online eating shows. Now, if users search certain keywords, such as "eating show" or "competitive eaters", a cautionary message pops up to remind them to cherish food and keep a reasonable diet.
"We've designed buildings for 100-year floods;" says Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, director of the Institute for Health in the Built Environment. "But there will be another epidemic or another pandemic - or there might just be another flu season. Let's go ahead and learn to design for the 100-year flu. "
Public health officials agree that one of the simplest ways to prevent the indoor spread of the virus is to increase the amount of outside air that comes into our buildings. The simple act of opening a window can meaningfully reduce the concentration of infectious (感染的) particles in the air.
But in many current office buildings, the windows aren't operable. Creating a tight air seal in a building is one of the main strategies used to make buildings more energy-saving. So architects are now wrestling with how to increase air circulation without accelerating energy consumption. One solution, according to Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, is a special type of window design. This allows outside air to be warmed or cooled, as needed, when it enters the building.
Most current office buildings usually adopt open-plan offices, which are suitable for modern office work. But in time of pandemic, viruses spread easily among workers in the office. Rather than seal employees into individual hard-walled rooms, office designers can preserve the benefits of open-plan offices by fitting airflow systems that clean the air breathed out. For example, vents (通风口) can be installed at the top of the room to pull out the cloud of exhaled (呼出的) air and for fresh air to be delivered along the floor. This type of "biophilic design" can increase productivity and improve physical health.
What all these changes have in common is that they'll happen only if the public continue to focus on indoor health after the acute crisis of the pandemic has passed. In the long run, what's perhaps even more important is making whole environments support human immune function.
Recently, many arguments between anxious parents and children on the use of mobile phones have hit the headlines. According to a survey, children's addiction to online games is closely related to parent-child relations: To keep children away from smartphones, parents have to reflect on their own behavior and apply themselves to building harmonious parent-kid relationships.
First, parents should not be overly upset or annoyed when their kids play video games. Online games are one of the most popular pastimes for students. And it's unfair for parents to blame smartphones for all the problems of their children, including poor performance, lack of ambition and inactive lifestyles. .
.Research shows children treated as equals in the family are more aware of the negative effects of online games. Those parents who respect their children's opinions and pay attention to their needs can set family rules with the help of their children. . And in such an atmosphere, children may be open about their thoughts and needs, and talk to their parents about what they really feel.
Last but not least, parents should spend time with their children. .So parents have to find time for their kids instead of saying they are too busy with work or ignoring their kids' feelings.
In a word, developing good parent-kid relations is an effective way to keep or draw kids away from smanphones.
A. There are some other problems that deserve parents' attention.
B. Besides, some of the problems should be left for time to solve.
C. What's more, it is advisable to adopt a friendly way of parenting.
D. Such problems existed even when smartphones and video games were not invented.
E. The better the relationship is, the less likely a kid is to be addicted to online games.
F. Family members can also smooth out their differences and reach consensuses together.
G. Actually, the most valuable gift for their kids is time, not money or expensive presents.
Craig Foster is a diver and wildlife filmmaker. Once he was diving in 1 cold waters when he saw an octopus (章鱼), an unbelievably shy creature with many behaviors unknown to science, 2 under shells and stones.
3 , he began following her without any disturbance. For weeks she 4 him, after 26 days of close watching, 5, the octopus realized Craig was not a danger, but a(n) 6 .She 7 and allowed Craig into her life. Both Craig and the octopus enjoyed a mutual(相互的) learning and exploration.
Before coming across the octopus, Craig was once in a dark and stressful period. "I was 8. To help myself out, I felt like I needed to be in the ocean, my go-to happy place as a child. Luckily, the octopus, my friend, brought a kind of 9 in my heart," he recalled.
Now Craig regards this daily diving 10 as a way of dealing with the depression that once left him 11 and disconnected. He is able to 12 intimate(亲密的)moments of this octopus' short life by spending two hours 13 her every single day for a year. "Every time I interact with her, it's14 and healing, because she has 15in me. If you gain her trust, she will allow you to step into her secret world," he said.
16 himself into this freezing underwater world has calmed his mind. Over the years, other animals have offered to make contact, but nothing has17to his "once-in-a-lifetime"18with the octopus. Craig says the greatest19she has taught him is that humans are not simple 20, but part of the natural world.
With the approach of the Palace Museum's 600th anniversary, those (hope) to visit it during the National Day holiday may find difficult to get in. Since the COVID-19 pandemic (break) out, it has limited the ability of visitors to experience the museum person - only 12,000 visitors a day are allowed in. Meanwhile, tickets, can be available 10 days in advance online, also have been sold out immediately. While some (previous) scheduled events have been canceled, visitors can still appreciate three highlighted exhibitions (hold) next month. The exhibitions will present a large number of cultural remains and also give a brief introduction to Chinese aesthetics (美学). Additionally, a series of· (academy) activities, along with the exhibitions, (organize) at the museum. The director of the Palace
Museum hopes that all these activities can raise people's (aware) to treasure and protect our heritage and promote cultural value of this era.
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Last Monday, I was informed to host the graduation ceremony with one of my classmate in our school hall. Faced such a great opportunity, we both feel excited. In order to make the ceremony successful, so we made enough preparations for it. They arranged the programmes, got familiar with the words and practised a lot together.
When I got on the stage, I was so nervous, beyond my control, which I made the mistake. What an embarrassed moment! Just then, I noticed my teacher smiling at me. Because his encouragement, I calmed down and everything worked out smooth as expected.
