Chicago has long been defined by its quirky, intellectual essay questions, mentioned in a few previous posts. If you want to get a head start on Chicago's application for the 2010-11 application, the just released essay questions are as follows:
Essay Option 1: Find x.
Inspired by Benjamin Nuzzo, an admitted student from Eton College, UK
Essay Option 2: Dog and Cat. Coffee and Tea. Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye. Everyone knows there are two types of people in the world. What are they?
Inspired by an alumna of the Class of 2006
Essay Option 3: Salt, governments, beliefs, and celebrity couples are a few examples of things that can be dissolved. You’ve just been granted the power to dissolve anything: physical, metaphorical, abstract, concrete… you name it. What do you dissolve, and what solvent do you use?
Inspired by Greg Gabrellas, A.B. 2009
Essay Option 4: “Honesty is the best policy, but honesty won’t get your friend free birthday cake at the diner.” - Overheard in the city of Chicago.
Does society require constant honesty? Why is it (or why is it not) problematic to shift the truth in one’s favor, even if the lie is seemingly harmless to others? If we can be “conveniently honest,” what other virtues might we take more lightly?
Inspired by Eleanor Easton, a second-year in the College
I am super curious - which essay option(s) are you eager to answer? If it were me, I would respond to option 4 about honesty. Mostly because honesty usually gets you nowhere and nothing. (Maybe that is just a future lawyer talking.) It's not about the actual truth but only the truth you are willing to believe. A truly honest person can not succeed. (Insert any quote from the movie Invention of Lying).
ReplyDeleteIf I were to pick an essay for you to answer, I would pick the first option. I would be interested in reading what you have to say because I think the first option allows you to give the most insight into your personality (which is not really shown to any admission board.) I think that question would require you to think about your choices up to this point and how you got to where you are. It would also require you to explain alternative choices (which I think you almost over-analyze) of getting to the same answer "x".
Oh my gosh! Those essay questions are super cool. I love that they're so philisophical. I didn't know college essays were like that. I'm excited now.
ReplyDeleteCollege searching is coming up, for me, and I'm even more excited, now!
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It would be much appreciated if you could post a review of your first semester at UChicago!
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