<p>NSM, while an interesting story, it’s not very humorous.</p>
<p>It’s not clever or funny. I’m not impressed man, get a girlfriend and use your time for something better.</p>
<p>For the record, he does have a girlfriend. Or at least a girl who claims to be his girlfriend, right here on CC. =P</p>
<p>haha, no really, i’m actually his girlfriend :)</p>
<p>No, personally thought this is not really that good of an essay…</p>
<p>i loved it! i kinda teared up =]
very original and definitely rememberable
i wish i wrote like this lol</p>
<p>This essay is absolute brilliance. Well, it’s been remarked by a veteran who read probably tens of thousands of essays right?</p>
<p>Now, did UChic made a mistake in sending this out? Well, I bet that they’ll receive many essays down the line of this one and…this makes the selection, or rejection, process a heck lot easier. This is supposed to be an INSPIRATION. Uchicago is desperately trying to appeal as a creative institution, so it’s only normal that the Dean would send something like this. I think that the institution has made absolutely no mistake in spicing a prospective students’ break by sending this purely brilliant essay.</p>
<p>That being said, I think that Rohan might not have not read the instructions, or purposely avoided them, since this short answer is clearly limited to 1 or 2 paragraphs…obviously the admission’s office didn’t mind that.</p>
<p>Haha, that kid seems awesome. I really admire the UChicago admissions people and almost applied based solely on their mail.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t this is the best written essay…but just when it might get awkward and cliche, the author manages to pull off a clever turn of phrase. Props to him.</p>
<p>There’s somethign I don’t quite understand. Rohan never actually mentioned any facts as to why Chicago? He could have sent this essay to any other school, and the essay would apply just as well.</p>
<p>There seems to be a pervasive assumption on the part of most of the contenders here, that an essay can only communicate explicitly-written content. It is true that the essay does not contain any credit-worthy content that reflects an effort to think deeply. Yet one must remember, as the person who thought so highly of China ought to know, that there are subtler points in communication that one easily misses out on without careful thought. </p>
<p>It is one thing to say in an essay, 'I am a good fit with the UofC because, blah, blah blah, ’ and quite another to demonstrate a good feel for the cultural climate of the university with a simple elegant exercise in writing that captures the specific kind of humour prevalent throughout the campus. </p>
<p>If one fails to see the humour in this, then one should feel gratified that the selection process has accorded so much respect to one’s decency as to prevent oneself from trying to partake of an intellectual orgy that demands more than one feels adequate for.</p>
<p>This essay cheered me up. It simply lightened the mood as I sit here wondering how I should write my essay. I love it and always will (:</p>
<p>Thanks for bumping this, because now, I feel like my Why Chicago is absolute garbage.</p>
<p>The essay is not particularly original and I hope it was the sum of all Rohan’s essays taken together that got him accepted.</p>
<p>It’s an adorable essay. Creative and delicious. I would love to meet him too haha.</p>