<p>no–wait–what gives?!? i didn’t change it to 7, i posted HOURS ago after the count was 6 for that category and lower #s for all the other categories! huge websites like this and facebook scare me sometimes</p>
<p>For option 4, if you managed to include 3 elements in a single paragraph, would that be seen as cheap?</p>
<ul>
<li>what does a picture want? (8)</li>
<li>table (8)</li>
<li>borges y yo (8)</li>
<li>story (10)</li>
<li>your own (19)</li>
<li>a combo (1)</li>
</ul>
<p>I actually wrote 3 essays for this app, but one was for last year and the other one I ended up using as my common app essay. I was going to use that one for chicago too, but I just really liked the table essay, so I wrote about a table I invented that rotates in such a way that you get to talk to different people throughout the night without having to move at all.</p>
<ul>
<li>what does a picture want? (8)</li>
<li>table (9)</li>
<li>borges y yo (8)</li>
<li>story (10)</li>
<li>your own (19)</li>
<li>a combo (1)</li>
</ul>
<p>My s basically re-wrote his Common App. with a table metaphor. Serious, unbrilliant, not wildly amusing. But he did write a really witty and hilarious (I thought) response to the “serious” question about things that are important to you, so he needed some place to talk about serious stuff. So hopefully it will balance out.</p>