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Category: University of Chicago
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I gave background to U Chicago’s Application Essay Prompt 2 in my last post; in this post, I will provide some more specific suggestions and sources for essay inspiration. Before I do, here is the prompt, again: Essay Option 2. In French, there is no difference between “conscience” and “consciousness”. In Japanese, there is a…
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This post is on last year’s University of Chicago prompts. If you want to write an essay about history for a college app that would allow a response on this basic topic, go ahead and read the post below. If not, this post is totally history . . . but for this year’s University of…
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This post will focus on another Chicago prompt with both humorous and philosophical potential, yes that one on the mantis shrimp. To refresh your memory, here it is: ESSAY OPTION 4. The mantis shrimp can perceive both polarized light and multispectral images; they have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Human eyes have…
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