<p>What schools offer the chance to write unusual supplemental essays (not generic "Why are you applying")? I know about Chicago and Stanford, but what are some others?</p>
<p>Penn offers an unusual one. Write page 217 of your 300 page autobiography.</p>
<p>Yeah, Chicago has some thought provoking prompts. I’m glad I’m not applying there. I’m just not that clever.</p>
<p>tufts…</p>
<p>Tufts has as part of its optional essays, “Write a short story about toast.”</p>
<p>UChicago prompts are nuts</p>
<p>Kenyon has a good one:</p>
<p>Choose from one of the following:
-Neuroscientists have recently discovered the part of the brain most active in decision-making. What human trait would you most want to understand and what makes it significant to you?
-You’re given a block of stone and a hammer and chisel. What would you carve and why?
-Along the edge of ancient maps it used to say ‘Here there be monsters.’ What does it say at the edge of your map and why does it say that?
-What recent discovery - either by you or by someone else - most excites you? Why is it important to you?</p>
<p>I went with option no. 3</p>