<p>Hey guys! </p>
<p>I'm slightly new here, so I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but what are some of the strangest essay questions provided to you by colleges for their application? Maybe you've answered the questions, or maybe you've just heard about them, but I'd like to know which colleges have the most creative questions. It's just for my personal satisfaction, really. I have a thing for quirky colleges.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>This is the FSU honors program essay. I thought it was a bit odd.</p>
<p>ESSAY: Please submit one page from the autobiography that you might write in 25 years.
Specifically, submit page 147. Your approach to this somewhat unconventional question is entirely up
to you, so feel free to be creative and provide us some insight into your personality, as well as your
thinking and writing styles.</p>
<p>they stole that from the Penn application^</p>
<p>UChicago's this year. I didn't actually do the app due to parental pressure but I remember the app was pretty damn quirky. But, I really loved it.</p>
<p>For one I actually did. It was the NYU one. "New York City is an essential
element of academic and cultural life at NYU. If you could start a club or service organization at NYU, what would it be and how would you envision it impacting the larger community?" Maybe, it was my answer that was the quirky one...</p>
<p>Chicago's are pretty creative, as are those of the IUP Honors College.</p>
<p>I agree that the University of Chicago has some very unique prompts. Apparently they contact students who had been admitted to their school the previous year and ask them to submit essay topics.</p>
<p>Here is one of my favorites:</p>
<p>The University of Chicago has a venerable tradition of seminar-based learning, in which students and professors gather around the classroom table to discuss ideas. Less venerable, but no less valuable, is our tradition of conversation around another tablethe dinner table. Indeed, on any given night you will find members of our student community breaking bread together, discussing everything from The Symposium to The Simpsons. We in the admissions office would argue that a community can be defined by its tableby its shape, by who finds a seat there, by what transpires there, by what is inspired there. Tell us about your table.</p>
<p>You can find the full list of prompts from this year and the previous years here: Chicago:</a> Essay Topics</p>
<p>Then you have essay prompts like the one in Caltech's Common App supplement:</p>
<p>Caltech students have long been known for their quirky sense of humor and creative pranks and for finding unusual ways to have fun.
What is something that you find fun or humorous?</p>
<p>Tufts had an interesting one:</p>
<p>Self-identity and personal expression take many forms. Tastes in music, food and clothing can make a statement while politics, religion and ethnicity often act as defining attributes. Buttons on your backpack; a tattoo; the blogs you read and the web sites you visit; the minutia on your refrigerator or the doodles on your notebook are clues to your passions and viewpoints. Are you a vegetarian? Do you prefer You Tube or test tubes? Are you the drummer in an all-girl rock band? Do like to tinker? Are you the umpire or the pitcher? Use the richness of your identity to give us insight: Who are you?</p>
<p>In addition, religious schools, such as Biola, offer very unique essay prompts.
For example:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>How and why did you become a Christian? Use Scripture to share the basis for your assurance of salvation and eternal life.</p></li>
<li><p>Using specific examples, describe your spiritual growth during the last three years.</p></li>
<li><p>How will you contribute to the Biola community and how can Biola assist you in your continual growth as a Christian?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I don't remember which school it was (Caltech or MIT) but I do remember that one of those schools had a question a few years back that basically instructed the student to fill in an empty box on the application with whatever they wanted to and encouraged creativity.</p>
<p>I'm sure there are plenty more but these were the ones that stuck out in my mind the most at the moment.</p>
<p>Emerson's was fun: </p>
<p>Much of the work that students do at Emerson College is a form of storytelling. If you were to write the story of your life until now, what would you title it? Why?</p>
<p>I think this question has to be by FAR the strangest question ive never seen.
These are from the application to Haas school of business at UC Berkeley </p>
<p>" Tell us the question you think a selective college should ask. How would you answer it?"
and
“If any of these three inanimate objects could talk, how would your room, computer or car describe you?”</p>