<p>You mean 11:59 PM on Nov. 1 (which is, in fact, the last chance to post early applications) :)</p>
<p>Thanks weedbythewall for answering my earlier question!</p>
<p>@ChickenFriedRyce - so there’s no strategic advantage to submitting an application earlier? So why are there people who did so like last week??</p>
<p>Btw - anyone who wrote about living/dreaming?</p>
<p>@ aangel42: No there is no strategic application of submitting early because they process your application after Nov 1 at any rate. Check out UChicago Official EA thread for class of 2015 and 2014; many of the admitted applicants submitted it on Nov 1 or Sep 30.</p>
<p>I personally believe its the quality of the application that makes difference ;)</p>
<p>@aangel42: I have written about living/dreaming. But, I am not sure if it’s good enough!</p>
<p>BTW for the non scientific method prompt is anyone attaching anything with the essay?
For instance visual aids or graphs? :/</p>
<p>No, I am not but it largely depends on your essay and whether your essay needs one or is based on one.
I have seen essays with a mathematical figure and other visual aids…</p>
<p>Mathematical figures? Mind elaborating? :)</p>
<p>I recently read one essay on the ‘Find X’ prompt. In that essay, the letter ‘X’ was craftily built in a graph paper infinite times. Then, the essayist started the essay with the question ’ Which X are you talking about? … was bamboozled by the creativity…</p>
<p>Wow yeah that is creative
Did that person get in?</p>
<p>Anyone do the Plato/Play-Doh essay? I think my essay is waaaaaay too off-topic XD</p>
<p>I wrote about my un-scientific process…I feel like it’s sufficiently creative but waaay more personal than any of the ones I’ve seen here. Like it’s an anecdote from my life (driving home from a concert). And also way shorter than any of these. Is length bad???</p>
<p>^Mine is very personal too, and I also wrote about an anecdote (prompt “time you found something you weren’t looking for”). I doubt it’s a bad thing - just a different approach to the essay. I’m really proud of my essay, so I think it worked to make it personal.</p>
<p>I’m doing the living/dreaming prompt. How personal does this have to be? Mine is mostly philosophical…</p>
<p>I didn’t do the living/dreaming one, but mine is ENTIRELY philosophical. I tried to put in personal anecdotes but I felt they were just detracting from the main purpose of the essay, and I didn’t really even want to. I think it mostly depends on your approach - but in my eyes, it’s perfectly okay to keep the essay philosophical if you feel it’s well written, insightful, and it reflects well on you!</p>
<p>These are philosophical questions. The admissions people are still getting to know you, how you think and feel, as you cannot separate your philosophy from who you are.</p>
<p>But the essays don’t have to be philosophical, do they? I answered the living/dreaming question with one word (my title) and explored what that one idea meant for me, both in my past and my present. I’m certain the essay reflected how I think and feel, even though I didn’t have a very philosophical approach to it.</p>
<p>I did the Plato and Play-Doh one! Yey!</p>
<p>Talked about chemical, physical, and biological similarities.
But a mind blow at the end, and I don’t want to reveal the mind blow ;)</p>
<p>don’t freak little penguin, that sounds good</p>
<p>Okay yeah. I need to get off this website. I keep second-guessing my essays because of what others have written, and I already submitted my app.</p>
<p>I’m attempting the play-doh/plato prompt by weaving in my life experiences and jumping around through word association. I suppose it’s like a train of thought sort of thing. I’m afraid it’s a bit too forced, though.</p>
<p>I am also considering prompt #4</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, has anyone dared option 5 of posing a question?</p>