<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I was curious as to when the next essay questions will be coming out. I'm planning on applying EA for next year, (applying Nov. 2009) and was thinking about maybe trying to get a head start on some essays.</p>
<p>I think they don't come out until this summer, a few weeks before the common app stuff. I mean, they're still accepting essay questions from the admitted students right now.</p>
<p>they come out in july.
i can't wait to see them though!!! i love, love, love uchicago essay prompts. i might even write one just for fun...
i really enjoyed writing the road essay this year. it's actually probably one of the best things i've ever written. thanks u of c for the great inspiration!!!</p>
<p>I know! I really think they're so interesting and thought provoking. Little things like that are things that make me like the university even more!!!</p>
<p>Next year's essay topics:</p>
<p>1) "Klaatu barada nikto," repeats amiable alien Klaatu in the 1951 science fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. Discuss.</p>
<p>2) Pi is defined as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081 Write a thoughtful, passionate essay.</p>
<p>3) "Deus, dona mihi serenitatem accipere res quae non possum mutare, fortitudinem mutare res quae possum, atque sapientiam differentiam cognoscere."</p>
<p>4) Chicago professor Shadi Bartsch recently wrote a book exploring the connection between metaphor and philosophy in classical antiquity. Drawing on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, sensible woman or man, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago, write a love poem to a mule.</p>
<p>(z)
Are you trolling or are you on the admissions staff @ UChicago?</p>
<p>I read some where that one of next years essays topic is going to be just a period (.) followed by discuss</p>
<p>Not trolling, just playfully mocking. :) </p>
<p>Pretty sure the essay topics come out in July.</p>
<p>Too bad. I really liked essay option 4.</p>
<p>I believe Shadi is now at Brown.</p>
<p>There isn't really a way to know what the promps will be. But I wanna know if anyone has submitted one yet. If so what was your idea.</p>
<p>Nice serenity prayer in Latin.</p>
<p>i actually have a very good essay to write about for topic 2.
when i was younger, i memorized a few hundred digits of pi to impress this boy i had a crush on....</p>
<p>wow, crystal. i don't know if he was, but that would have been enough to impress me! i would have been all over you, lol. ;)</p>
<p>^ LOL!!!!</p>
<p>at (z): lmao!! "write a love letter to a mule"?</p>
<p>oh, and to people already thinking about writing essays, definitely get a head start over the summer. I wrote a ton of possible essays over the summer, and when it came down to finishing a couple of other essays, I ended up re-reading what I written over the summer and adapting them for other schools. I hadn't been that impressed with them when I wrote them, but I absolutely loved them when I came back to them several months later.</p>
<p>^MBP -- HAHAHAHA (not for the comment directly above me. i second it even though i didn't start my essays until september/october ish for EA).
i hope the admissions people would be all over me too ;)</p>
<p>One thing I've learned from the Chicago essay questions ... if you think that your essay is very good ... there will always be someone with an essay that's 2,000,000x better. </p>
<p>The best way to write an essay is to write something from your heart, because on then will the essay sound genuine and personal. But there will never be a perfect essay...</p>
<p>I'm still heartbroken, Chicago. Why? Why? Why?</p>