<p>Just out of curiousity, who did you choose?</p>
<p>mark zuckerberg. what about you?</p>
<p>Roger Federer. I didn’t do ED, I’m just doing this for the 12/1 merit deadline. Ahh I didn’t like the prompt.</p>
<p>Yeah same here</p>
<p>Im not very sure what the essay is aiming at though</p>
<p>Mark Zuckerberg is a really good one</p>
<p>If we choose a fictional character from literature, are we to assume that the adcom has read the book? I think I am going to do Kurtz from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. It’s far from obscure, but I’m not 100% sure that an adcom will have read it?</p>
<p>I would provide some context. Like maybe start off with a brief description of the character at least like who he is and what he’s doing in the book.</p>
<p>I wish this was ‘why is ____ a leader’. That would’ve been so much easier.</p>
<p>can sb help me clarify exactly what this prompt is aiming at ???</p>
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<p>I would presume its to showcase your leadership skills - though you aren’t exactly the leader, you are merely advising one. I still think that in advising a leader, the admissions officers can see how you would lead (by proxy).</p>
<p>In all honesty though, this prompt seems quite silly</p>
<p>I did my essay on Pippi Longstocking… I know that’s kind of a stretch for the whole leadership thing, but do you think they’ll appreciate the originality? It’s kind of coming down to the wire, and I don’t know if I’ll have time to choose a new topic… :/</p>
<p>I’m doing someone familiar-just our student association president for reform of it.</p>
<p>I am definitely struggling with this essay… I seriously don’t know who to choose. It seems like most people choose someone globally influential like Winston Churchill or something except that I feel like I would need to do some significant research on that person before writing the essay itself. But somehow, writing an essay about Harry Potter or Peter Pan just seems like a bad idea… It’s hard to take something like that seriously.</p>
<p>Also, why would someone who is already a leader need advising? Unless they happen to be a bad leader…</p>
<p>if anyone is having trouble, don’t be afraid. i went from a complete loss for words to slamming out one of my best papers in no time. i chose a non-political leader, think of a CEO, character, or whatever, and some issues they face (i don’t feel comfortable saying who until after the process). i didn’t think of what i would do i in my day-to-day work as advisor, like, “I, for one, would choose to put cheese <em>and</em> bacon on the burger, President Obama.” instead, i suggested what i would do to address the issue. i think that basically they want you to analyze some problem or predicament facing someone and give your opinion on it. stylistically speaking, my paper ended up being really similar to to a run-of-the-mill analytical essay. i think they just established “Leaders in the Making” BS as a premise to turn a relatively simple prompt into something about “leadership”.</p>
<p>I’m a current CMC student in the leadership sequence. Here’s the thing. Leadership can never be perfected; a true leader is constantly learning and growing. Demonstrate that knowledge. Every year the topic slightly changes; ours was simply to write about a leader, fictional or otherwise, and explain why he/she is/was a leader. Way easier. Good luck guys.</p>
<p>I chose Rock Hudson, who really wasnt a leader in any sense, but I shaped him into a in my essay.</p>
<p>I wrote about Don Draper from Mad Men…I think I pulled it off</p>
<p>I wrote about myself advising the Once-ler, in The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.</p>
<p>I wrote it in Dr.Seuss’ style, and mailed the admissions dean a copy of the book.</p>
<p>Soon after acceptance, the dean emailed me saying how my essay is all the talk up there, and he presumes it will be for some time</p>
<p>Just curious, how long are/were your essays?</p>
<p>I wrote mine on Beowulf. I did sort of a story telling essay, rather than an analytical essay, but my main point was that I had advised him to find a leader because a true leader can look into the future, but he had always ignored me. It was creative, but they’re either gona love it or hate it</p>