Okay, I am applying to Uconn as a safety school. I know my stats are all there and stuff so I’m thinking of applying EA just so that I will know if I got in sooner. EA deadline is today and I have everything done except essays. Their essay topics:
1-2 pages
-Please describe what makes you a unique individual and how these qualities can benefit the University of Connecticut Community
-Describe a person or event that has had a profound effect upon your life.
OR
-Ask and answer the one question you wish we had asked.
I don’t really like any of those topics and I don’t think and essay that I write on one in the next few hours will be that great. I have an essay for the University of Chicago that everyone tells me is really good. However, anyone knows how specific Chicago’s essays are. THis is the prompt I used:
People often think of language as a connector, something that brings people together by helping them share experiences, feelings, ideas, etc. We, however, are interested in how language sets people apart. Start with the peculiarities of your own personal language the voice you use when speaking most intimately to yourself, the vocabulary that spills out when youre startled, or special phrases and gestures that no one else seems to use or even understandand tell us how your language makes you unique. You may want to think about subtle riffs or idiosyncrasies based on cadence, rhythm, rhyme, or (mis)pronunciation.
I wrote about crew and being a coxswain and learning to use a different tone of voice…anyway can I just use the question “tell us about an activity that you enjoy” and use the same essay for Uconn under the “one question you wish we had asked”? If anybody wants to read the essay I’ll email it; I’d like feedback but don’t want to post it here, but anyway about Uconn… How closely will they be able to tell if the essay is being reused and will they care?