<p>Hey everybody.</p>
<p>Williams is on my short list for colleges, and I'm currently in the process of doing all the supplemental essays for the Common App. The prompt for this year is: " Imagine yourself in a tutorial at Williams. Of anyone in the world, whom would you choose to be the other student in the class, and why?"</p>
<p>Does anyone know if this includes people throughout history as well? I have plenty of good ideas for this prompt, but they all deal with people who are already dead and had major impacts on the world.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance, and good luck to everybody going through the same process! </p>
<p>I would imagine so - they don’t tell you NOT to, so I say go for it. All of the people I’m thinking about are long-dead as well, haha.</p>
<p>By all means, yes! Appropriate cleverness can help your essay stand out and make it fun to read. I’m thinking it could also even be a fictional character, a supernatural being, or a personified object/concept (I dk…like Mother Nature). The point isn’t about who you choose; it’s about why you choose them–this is an indirect way of talking about yourself. As long as you answer the question and say something meaningful that reflects who you are, you should just go for it. </p>
Same topic for this year!!
My totally awful idea was – and you’re totally welcome to steal this because I’m obviously not going to use it – was to say that I wanted the Empress Theodora to be my tutorial partner.
Basically, during the Nika riots in Constantinople (during like the 6th century if I’m recalling correctly) Theodora’s husband, Justinian, was going to bug right out of Constantinople. Basically, a bunch of people were trying to kill him/usurp him as emperor so he was going to load a ship up with gold and just skip over the bosphorus straits, and then live the rest of his life in exile.
So Theodora at this point tells Justinian to stop being so cowardly, and that she’d rather die royalty than live in exile for the rest of her life, and the summation of her speech was the quote she’s most famous for: “the royal purple is the noblest [funeral] shroud.”
So my really awful supplement idea was to be like “I would like to have Theodora as my tutorial partner because of her /totally/ great choice in colors.” (Purple is one of Williams’ school colors.)
Lol I like it, I chose an individual from history too
I don’t have an idea yet; any suggestions guys? Would be really helpful!