<p>I think it's a bad generalization to say that all Chicago essays need to be quirky - just like admissions officer at any other top schools, Chicago officers will be equally impressed with essays that are unique and have hearts...</p>
<p>hm.. yea.. i don't think mine was quirky, but it was definitely sincere and highlighted major parts of my life. i didn't try to be quirky at all.. cos that's not me, and that's not my style. my teacher commented my essays to be 'literal rather than metaphorical', wch he thought wouldn't be a bad thing either.. it's better than trying to sound quirky.. and end up not.</p>
<p>i guess it depends.. but well, i didn't try at all to be quirky.. now im worried, cos every thread seems to emphasize the importance of creative/quirky essay. but well, they can't expect every1 to be like tt ya? writing in such a manner is really not me....</p>
<p>i really don't think the point is to be quirky. the point is to show that you have really thought about something...anything. thought about it deeply, turned in over in your mind to examine it from different points of view, time periods, theoritical vantage points. it could be dimples on an orange or Christian apologetics. oranges are quirky, apologetics are scholarly, but the common thread is intellectual curiosity.</p>
<p>It has to be thoughtful and intellectual, but not necessarily very creative and "quirky." My essay last year was political (very different from anything I had written for other colleges), and although it was unrelated to the suggested topics, I was accepted.</p>
<p>S wrote about Tucker Max. It was actually a good essay, but Tucker is not exactly loved at Chicago. We'll see...... That was the essay about a book. His main essay was about eating White Castle hamburgers. S is strange- but so is Chicago.</p>
<p>Well dont hate me, lol, but I wrote my essay in the form of a speech given by a AFL-CIO representative on a small farm. It was a satire on protectionism. Ill be ducking in the corner, hoping to avoid the rotten vegetables thrown at me.</p>
<p>just looking at the "uncommon application," I think that being quirky would be a definite good thing. If a wrtier can be quirky and still integrate life experiences, thier essay would probably be golden in the eyes of the adcoms.</p>
<p>Down with farm subsidies! Long live comparative advantage! (Did anyone read "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations" by Landes?)</p>
<p>Why would anyone throw rotten vegetables over anti-protectionism? I mean, this is the University of the economist Milton Friedman we're talking about...(On the other hand, it is rather unfair to automatically associate Chicago with neo-classical economics, since it was also once the home of the great Thorstein Veblen.)</p>
<p>I am considering comparing the war my parents had against our wierd cat neighbors to current American ideals. The cat neighbors thought we killed their cat. They put signs through the neighbor, " Is your cat missing? It may dead. The neighbors at ____________ are foes to our feline friends...." It got worst. They eventually decided to dump olive oil and lemon on our lawn and garage to ward away the cats. The cops did nothing to help any of neither us or the cat neighbors. It ended when the cops caught them playing loud music from their porch in the middle of the night. The cats wars ended for good that night.</p>
<p>i'm a little worried about this...i wrote about "Mind that does not stick", and while it was very original and probably quite "quirky", i'm not sure i exactly told enough about MYSELF in it. If i don't get accepted, that'll probably be why. Do they really need you to include stuff about yourself in there, or will showing them your thinking or something be ok?</p>