Chicago Essay Prompt

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>So I was wondering, would Chicago be upset if I choose essay option 5 (the use your own prompt) and then wrote the essay based on of their past prompts? </p>

<p>I really want to do: In a book entitled The Mind’s I, by Douglas Hofstadter, philosopher Daniel C. Dennett posed the following problem: Suppose you are an astronaut stranded on Mars whose spaceship has broken down beyond repair. In your disabled craft there is a Teleclone Mark IV teleporter that can swiftly and painlessly dismantle your body, producing a molecule-by-molecule blueprint to be beamed to Earth. There, a Teleclone receiver stocked with the requisite atoms will produce, from the beamed instructions, you—complete with all your memories, thoughts, feelings, and opinions. If you activate the Teleclone Mark IV, which astronaut are you—the one dismantled on Mars or the one produced from a blueprint on Earth? Suppose further that an improved Teleclone Mark V is developed that can obtain its blueprint without destroying the original. Are you then two astronauts at once? If not, which one are you?
To celebrate twenty years of uncommon essay questions, we brought back this favorite from 1984. (2004–2005)</p>

<p>Let me know!</p>

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<p>Nope they wouldn’t be upset, believe others on here have said they used past prompts as well and it worked out fine.</p>

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<p>^Not so fast, there. The adcoms don’t like to read essays they’ve already read. This doesn’t mean that all students who’ve rehashed old questions are rejected, but generally speaking the practice is frowned upon. I’d refrain from writing on this topic if it’s at all possible, but it’s old enough that it may not make too much of a difference.</p>