<p>Did you mention UChic in your find x/two types of people/dissolve etc. essay?</p>
<p>Should you?</p>
<p>e.g. Let’s say the essay is an interesting essay about working hard or another quality </p>
<p>Would you somehow try to tie it in to yourself and how you would fit at UChic?</p>
<p>I didn’t. I didn’t feel the need to. I mean, I’m applying RD for next fall, so I guess I could edit it so it does, but I don’t think that it’s all too necessary.</p>
<p>Hey- I didn’t either. Another kid applying early from my school- who also used the find X question- did. He saw “x” as the University of Chicago and talked about all of his achievements/experiences leading up to when he “found x,” i.e. leading up to his hopeful enrollment at U of C.
Mine was more of a philosophical approach- I dissected “x” through a mathematical principle and showed that it could be anything. I questioned “x” through a past and future context, ultimately “freezing” its value in the present. I didn’t mention the University of Chicago at all. I figured I could say all I needed to say about the school in the “Why Chicago” essay, so I chose to let them see just how I thought in the main essay without any reference to their school.</p>
<p>i feel like what you said the other kid did is cliche and most likely done a lot.</p>
<p>^ I agree… that sounds kind of cheesy to have “x” as Chicago. 
I don’t think they want to hear about all your achievements/academics in the supplement essay.</p>
<p>I didn’t mention Chicago in my main essay. There’s a whole “Why Chicago” essay so you don’t really need to.</p>
<p>I mentioned uchicago in the last sentence after all the personifications of my personality melded together for the dissolve essay.</p>