<p>Hey, the application's finally online.</p>
<p>Woohoo! Good luck, 2012.</p>
<p>YAY! except... I don't like the essays. >.< I may have to think of one of my own.</p>
<p>I love the essays. I can't wait to write the comedy one- I nearly laughed out loud when I was reading it.</p>
<p>They are really throwing you for a loop this year. Take that, generic college essay! KAPOW!</p>
<p>I'm in love with the comedy essay. It's the most BS-Proof essay I've ever seen. At this point, I'd choose that one. </p>
<p>This is exciting.</p>
<p>Yeah some topics are really out there. I think the comedy one is too out there for me... lol How in the world can someone turn those items into a coherent essay?! Still it's refreshing not to have to describe yet another experience or influential person. I like the Borges one, but I don't completely understand it. Can we make ourselves Borges and have an internal conflict or loss of identity?</p>
<p>This is one of the reasons I love Uchicago :D. All the prompts are great, I'm gonna write an essay for all of them...just for kicks.</p>
<p>^^lol sofia have fun with that! Good luck to all hopeful class of 2012'ers on here!</p>
<p>The comedy one is great, but no superpowers!</p>
<p>:) Well I guess the essay topics are okay. But I simply fell in love with the Cartesian coordinate one from last year. The ones from this year are good, and definitely though-stimulating and refreshingly ungeneric, but they just don't compare to that one. (I think I'm going to use that topic for Common App essay choice 6, because the other Common App topics are all so BORING.)</p>
<p>For all non-2012 applicants' sake, can anyone post the essay questions here?</p>
<p>They didn't chose my prompt. O well. The options are still good.</p>
<p>Link to the essays: <a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=376%5B/url%5D">http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=376</a></p>
<p>Ahhh! Good luck, you guys!</p>
<p>They didn't choose my prompt, but that's ok; the comedy one is 1000X better :p</p>
<p>Hmm. There's usually a scientific/mathematical prompt, but this year seems to lack one. Good thing I applied last year. ^^;</p>
<p>for the comedy one, your characters can't have super powers, but you can include invisible hands?</p>
<p>The invisible hand is an economic metaphor created by Adam Smith.</p>
<p>Does the comedy one have to actually be a comedic story/essay/etc. or does it just have to be anything that incorporates those things?</p>
<p>I'm considering doing option 3 (the "other one" essay), but I'm unsure of what exactly it wants.</p>
<p>And for the table one, do I have to describe a table that really exists in my life, or can it be a symbolic table?</p>
<p>Now I'm thinking of writing my own topic. I'm not exactly sure how I'd answer it though...</p>
<p>I was under the impression it was a symbolic table. The table the represents you... the one you would design and fill with people.</p>
<p>Upsilamba, I think the prompts are intentionally open-ended. Write whatever you think works best for you, and don't worry about how you interpret the prompt versus how other applicants may interpret it.</p>