Does essay 4 have to be funny?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>well, does it?</p>

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<p>No.</p>

<p>I don't know what the prompt is, but I am positive that it does not have to be funny.</p>

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<p>ssay Option 4</p>

<p>Modern improvisational comedy had its start with The Compass Players, a group of University of Chicago students, who later formed the Second City comedy troupe. Here is a chance to play along. Improvise a story, essay, or script that meets all of the following requirements:</p>

<pre><code>* It must include the line “And yes I said yes I will Yes” (Ulysses, by James Joyce).
* Its characters may not have superpowers.
* Your work has to mention the University of Chicago, but please, no accounts of a high school student applying to the University—this is fiction, not autobiography.
* Your work must include at least four of the following elements:

  • a paper airplane
  • a transformation
  • a shoe
  • the invisible hand

  • two doors

  • pointillism

  • a fanciful explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem

  • a ventriloquist or ventriloquism

  • the Periodic Table of the Elements

  • the concept of jeong

  • number two pencils
    </code></pre>

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<p>I mean, it does mention modern improv comedy. I just don't know if they want a normal fictitious story or a funny fictitious story</p>

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<p>I'll offer my thoughts, but keep in mind I'm just a fellow applicant. I doubt that the essay HAS to be anything. Having said that, I'd assume the prompt four essays are going to be along more humorous or light hearted lines. It's hard to see how prompt four could be turned into something very serious, or deeply emotional. Most people who write it will probably make it funny, or at least try to make it funny. If you have different ideas, I'm sure that's fine.</p>

<p>Like I said, though, that's all just conjecture.</p>

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<p>haha that's what i figured.</p>