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Category: University of Chicago Application Essays
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Also known as the essay for students who wish to absquatulate to the University of Chicago, or if you prefer, to skedaddle, or for those who are in a real hurry, to skidoo. Always suckers for a punny response and for innovation, the University of Chicago is taking aim directly at your ability to innovate this year: …
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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 will focus on some background for the very interesting but contradictory prompt two of this year’s University of Chicago application essays–the language prompt, probably better named the Whorfian language prompt. This post is Part 1 of two posts on this prompt. I will cover some background and get into a few ideas for…
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Getting Started on Your Chicago Essays: We Begin with the Joke Prompt Before reading this post, you might want to look at my earlier post with all of this year’s U of Chicago prompts–scroll down this linked post, past the Penn essay, to view all of the Chicago prompts: Start Your Essays. So you do not…
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Or at least some of them are out early. This post will introduce some of the essay prompts for Ivy League and elite universities this year. We are off to an earlier than usual start for this year’s prompts, probably due to the increased number of early applicants; many of the important schools are…