小编又来给大家汇总近期各个院校的最新动态啦，这次包含近期的专业、文书写作等申请相关内容，还有每个人都尤为关心的学费！
"UCB新增两个本科专业BREAKING NEWS"
8月末，加州大学伯克利分校宣布将新设东亚人文（East Asian humanities）和教育科学（ educational sciences ）两个本科专业。
东亚人文专业将开设在东亚语言及文化学系（Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures），学生将通过文学、文化、视觉和声音研究，宗教、哲学、电影和媒体研究，残疾研究和环境人文等多个学科研究多种东亚文化。
教育科学专业将开设在加州大学伯克利教育学院（Berkeley School of Education），该专业旨在培养学生成为教育研究人员、课程和学习专家、政策分析师。在2024年秋季可以申请该专业，不过现在校内已开设该课程。
"哈佛最新优秀文书公布BREAKING NEWS"
哈佛大学每年都会公布10篇最佳文书，以及点评。今年的十佳范文也如约而至。
01 Michelle G.'s Essay
Red, orange, purple, gold...I was caught in a riot of shifting colors. I pranced up and down the hill, my palms extended to the moving collage of butterflies that surrounded me. “Would you like to learn how to catch one?” Grandfather asked, holding out a glass jar. “Yes!” I cheered, his huge calloused fingers closing my chubby five-year-old hands around it carefully.
Grandfather put his finger to his lips, and I obliged as I watched him deftly maneuver his net. He caught one marvelous butterfly perched on a flower, and I clutched the open jar in anticipation as he slid the butterfly inside. It quivered and fell to the bottom of the jar, and I gasped. It struggled until its wings, ablaze in a glory of orange and red, quivered to a stop. I watched, wide-eyed, as it stopped moving. “Grandpa! What’s happening?”My grandfather had always had a collection of butterflies, but that was the first time I saw him catch one. After witnessing the first butterfly die, I begged him to keep them alive; I even secretly let some of them go. Therefore, to compromise, he began carrying a special jar for the days I accompanied him on his outings, a jar to keep the living butterflies. But the creatures we caught always weakened and died after a few days in captivity, no matter how tenderly I fed and cared for them. Grandfather took me aside and explained that the lifespan of an adult butterfly was very short. They were not meant to live forever: their purpose was to flame brilliantly and then fade away. Thus, his art serves as a memory of their beauty, an acknowledgement of nature’s ephemeral splendor.
But nothing could stay the same. I moved to America and as the weekly excursions to the mountainside ended, so did our lessons in nature and science. Although six thousand miles away, I would never forget how my grandpa’s wrinkles creased when he smiled or how he always smelled like mountain flowers.
As I grew older and slowly understood how Grandfather lived his life, I began to follow in his footsteps. He protected nature’s beauty from decay with his art, and in the same way, I tried to protect my relationships, my artwork, and my memories. I surrounded myself with the journals we wrote together, but this time I recorded my own accomplishments, hoping to one day show him what I had done. I recorded everything, from the first time I spent a week away from home to the time I received a gold medal at the top of the podium at the California Tae Kwon Do Competition. I filled my new home in America with the photographs from my childhood and began to create art of my own. Instead of catching butterflies like my grandpa, I began experimenting with butterfly wing art as my way of preserving nature’s beauty. Soon my home in America became a replica of my home in China, filled from wall to wall with pictures and memories.
Nine long years passed before I was reunited with him. The robust man who once chased me up the hillside had developed arthritis, and his thick black hair had turned white. The grandfather I saw now was not the one I knew; we had no hobby and no history in common, and he became another adult, distant and unapproachable. With this, I forgot all about the journals and photos that I had kept and wanted to share with him.
After weeks of avoidance, I gathered my courage and sat with him once again. This time, I carried a large, leather-bound book with me. “Grandfather,” I began, and held out the first of my many journals. These were my early days in America, chronicled through pictures, art, and neatly-printed English. On the last page was a photograph of me and my grandfather, a net in his hand and a jar in mine. As I saw our faces, shining with proud smiles, I began to remember our days on the mountainside, catching butterflies and halting nature’s eventual decay.
My grandfather has weakened over the years, but he is still the wise man who raised me and taught me the value of capturing the beauty of life. Although he has grown old, I have grown up. His legs are weak, but his hands are still as gentle as ever. Therefore, this time, it will be different. This time, I will no longer recollect memories, but create new ones.
招生官点评
这篇文章用诗意地写法回忆了Michell早年与祖父的生活的经历，她是如何感受到生命的短暂且美好，同时展示出作者敏锐的观察和思考能力。
写一篇“关于一个对你有影响的人”的文章，这类主题具有挑战性的一个方面是确保清楚描述这个人和他对你自身发展关系的平衡。在这个例子中，Michell成功地捕捉到了她祖父的本质——他是一个世俗的人，理解蝴蝶转瞬即逝的本质，也富有同情心，理解米歇尔对蝴蝶的关心。
同时，这篇文章也集中展示出Michell多年来的成熟。从她的祖父那里，她继承了对自然的热爱，以及记录她对生活见解的自我意识和内省。我们也看到了她的艺术一面。而当她九年后终于见到祖父时，她意识到祖父发生了怎样的变化。这篇文章将她祖父的衰老与早期关于他们曾经捕捉的蝴蝶短暂的声明进行了美丽的类比，这让她想起了生命是多么转瞬即逝。
总的来说，尽管这篇文章关注的是Michell的祖父及其对她的影响，但我们仍然对米歇尔有了不少了解。我们了解到她很有成就（跆拳道金牌）、很有艺术感、很有爱心。她的深思熟虑和内省本性也在这篇文章中大放异彩，这无疑是吸引招生委员会的品质。
"因“操控学费”芝加哥大学赔偿上亿和解金BREAKING NEWS"
美本学费高昂是大家公认的事实，但“操控学费”是怎么一说呢？大概就是，本来学生可以根据院校所给奖学金来选择学校，然后这些学校互相商量着就给一个差不多的金额，变相削弱了学生的选择权。
《纽约时报》去年1月11日报道，5名曾就读杜克大学、西北大学和范德堡大学等学校的本科生向芝加哥联邦法院提起诉讼，美国17所顶尖学校（MIT、耶鲁、芝加哥、宾大、JHU、加州理工、西北、杜克、圣母、布朗、达特茅斯、Rice、范德堡、康奈尔、哥大、Emory、乔治城）操纵价格、提高学费、减少学生的经济援助，歧视低收入家庭的申请学生。
这场诉讼还未有定夺，芝加哥大学率先表示愿意支付1,350万美金的和解协议，以补偿原告所受的伤害，同时阻止原告所指控的不当行为，并使其余被告能够进一步补偿其校友和在校学生所受的伤害。
近年来，美本学费水涨船高，大家也对学费十分关心。若学校都采取前面的措施，寒门学子出路越来越窄，录取应该是一个专注在学生自身能力，而非其他财力背景的，也正式贯彻这一理念，才有了need-blind政策。相信有了芝加哥大学打头阵，后续几所学校也会有所行动。
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