<p>@predragpepi you sound a little too ostentatious…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that optional essay won’t be helping you much :P</p>
<p>4pm CST? or EST?</p>
<p>^i have the same Q</p>
<p>EST, allegedly</p>
<p>woo that means 3 pm for CST. alright less than a day left everyone!</p>
<p>Insulting the admission officers was THE LAST thing I had in mind.(I REALLY HOPE THEY WILL NOT THINK OF IT AS YOU DID because I never even thought of it that way 
) It was not a complain on the amount of space at all (at least I didnt intend it that way) My point was that I, personally, feel incapable of summarizing my favorite books, movies, plays etc SINCE I HAVE MANY. Also I know my writing may not be the best but I hope they will take into consideration that I’m an international student.</p>
<p>Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own… I thought that explaining why some thing matter to me (these two in this case) would help the officers get more insight into my persona. </p>
<p>Now I start panicking… no one even said anything about the meaning of my essay which I think that admissions officers value most (not grammar mistakes and/or whether I offend them, which again was not my intention!..hope they interpret it the way I intended)</p>
<p>@predragpepi: You sound pompous and close minded in your essay. That’s what I got from the meaning. Although you may not be in real life, I found your essay gave you a rather obnoxious voice.</p>
<p>predragpepi, dude, don’t worry about it. you’re international which both will give you a leg-up and some leeway. you said that you wrote this last minute and sent it… i can thus assume that your other essays have a slightly more personable tone. don’t worry! what’s done is done. and now we wait. until tomorrow.</p>
<p>The decisions are already made at this point predragpepi…</p>
<p>What these people have to say mean nothing. Sorry to anyone who gave their opinion, but it’s true.</p>
<p>@magentaturtle and @tremont007 I LOVE YOU GUYS </p>
<p>And I too realized how futile the worrying was. </p>
<p>By the way I still think my essay rocks, and I think that the other rock even more. And if I get rejected tomorrow this is what I will have left: my opinion about my own essays! ahhahaa</p>
<p>Peace guys and i honestly wish you all good luck tomorrow… :D</p>
<p>@Predragpepi</p>
<p>I am sure you are not a pompous individual in real life. However, keep in mind that the admissions committee is not evaluating individuals. It is evaluating applications. It is about how you present yourself to the admissions committee. The optional essay not only did not help you during the evaluation process, but it might have hurt you.</p>
<p>that’s the spirit! in the end, what matters is that YOU feel like you’ve done everything you could have done. you love your essays? damn straight! we should all love our essays! good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>less than 20 hours
:S</p>
<p>@Predragpepi
See, now I feel harsh. Even then, look, you have to know how to write what you mean. “The idea alone that I should summarize my favorite artists and works in few lines is preposterous and absurd,” sounds almost farcically aristocratic, like something the Dowager Countess might say in Downton Abbey. [</a> the Dowager Countess Says - YouTube](<a href="■■■■ the Dowager Countess Says - YouTube">■■■■ the Dowager Countess Says - YouTube)</p>
<p>And I refuse to believe that you’re inadequate at being able to concisely say what your favorite things are, because everyone can come up with the words if they put some effort into it, which, by your own admission, you did not. I truly don’t think that you, as a person, are pompous or a jerk or anything like that, but what you’ve written can easily be interpreted that way.</p>
<p>“No matter what your admission decision is tomorrow, we thank you all for your time invested in UChicago, your amazing and thoughtful applications, and your patience with us! All of you will end up at great schools and will be happy at your chosen university. Your adventure is just beginning!”</p>
<p>Posted about an hour ago by UChicago.</p>
<p>What was your top choice Poplicola?</p>
<p>As a current student at the University of Chicago, I would like to wish all of you the very best of luck! Regardless of where you end up next autumn, I am sure you will be full of joy and happiness. I was not accepted by my top choice (which oddly is ranked at least 10 places below UChicago), but I have come to love this place and excel here. Even if this is your first choice and you are ultimately not accepted, I am absolutely certain that you will have a fabulous time at the school you end up matriculating.</p>
<p>Predragpepi:</p>
<p>Think about it this way. We have basically no idea who you are. All we saw was the optional essay that you posted. That is all that the admission officers will have too. If we could not see what you were really trying to get at, chances are that the adcom couldn’t either :P. So even if you meant it to be a really good essay, it wasn’t exactly conveyed that way. That is that problem. You may think it is awesome, but at the end of the day, it is what other people think that counts for admissions.</p>
<p>@UChicagoGrad As I said, I would maybe written it that way but I thought that the admissions officers will have more insight into my persona and my opinions. I know how it may sound and that is why I regret the way I formulated the intro…</p>
<p>On the other hand, my application is waaaay more than this essay so I still have my hopes high. xD</p>
<p>And the video was sooo funny, it cheered my up! And i ADORE Maggie!!! :D</p>
<p>@cneogy and all others… I thought about it and negative feedback is way better than positive one. Positive raises hope and makes you sad when rejected. With negative I can either be right about the outcome or rub my essay in your faces (its basically a win-win)</p>
<p>The Uchicago admissions will have far more than this essay and I really think you all focused TOO much on the intro… anyway, its not worth bothering what we cannot change so amma go and relax myself… You should all do that as well :D</p>