<p>Sounds like an urban legend University of Chicago style:) </p>
<p>When asked, the admissions officers felt they too perhaps were part of this unfortunate mistake.</p>
<p>"His essay on why Chicago was a brilliant send up on Why essays everywhere. It really had all the nuances one might expect from an absurdist skewering. The passage regarding the low tuition and wanting to study engineering we felt worthy of Woody Allen himself."</p>