<p>For questions like the comedy one, does your essay have to say something about YOU specifically, or can it just be fun? Just a writing sample that may show something about you in the style it's written, but isn't connected to you, personally, in any way? The same with question #1, about what pictures want...</p>
<p>you don't have to write about yourself directly. My friends and I have shared our essays with each other-- a lot of them choose to write short stories and the like in which they are not the primary focus.</p>
<p>What you are doing, though, when you write on one of these topics, is showing the admissions committee who you are by way of how you think. You're probably thinking that a college essay needs to be, "I love basketball. I love theater. I love school. I love violin." It doesn't! A good uncommon essay will show something about how you think and what sorts of connections you make, and what insights you are capable of, which, for a school as discussion-heavy as Chicago, is much, much, much more important than how much you may love your violin.</p>
<p>I think the UnCommon app also wants to test your ability to rise to a certain kind of challenge that as a Chicagoan you will face over and over and over. If you think these questions are dense, confusing, and not worth the effort, you're gonna hate Marx, Kant, and Freud.</p>
<p>DS is very, very happy with the table question. Fits him perfectly.</p>
<p>I <3 the essays =]]</p>
<p>Thank God because I was so nervous about them. Now it's a matter of which one I will do =T</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>My eccentric and lovable family must eat together at the dinner table everyday, plus we have a very weird routines during dinner.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to choose the dinner table one! (in case you did not see that coming...)</p>
<p>The Uncommon Application matches my personality so well :)</p>
<p>Yesss! I love all of these! Especially Essay Option 4!!!!</p>
<p>I am extreeeemely excited =)</p>