<p>For the "How did you get caught?" prompt I'm talking about how I was caught in the 9/11 fears and I see many people say how they got caught doing something such as ditching school.</p>
<p>Am I going in the right direction?</p>
<p>Chicago looks for creativity, so I think your approach is quite good. Usually people would take the prompt literally and write about getting caught doing things etc, but you didn’t, so it’ll make you stand out. It’s very open ended.</p>
<p>I like that it’s not too literal, but be very careful not to make your essay sound too clich</p>
<p>Well my last paragraph explains how the whole “Muslim fear” made me realize how it was going to far.Then I explain how ethnicity doesn’t matter and how me being exposed to the post 911 politics made me interested in politics and by out growing this fear, I have learned to think critically rather than to believe everything I hear.</p>
<p>I’m sure that would be a fine approach. I won’t say what son did, but he took a pretty risky approach to this question. We’ll see where it lands him.</p>
<p>Learning that ethnicity doesn’t matter just doesn’t sound creative enough for Chicago. I think my kids found that idea kind of boring by second grade. Maybe you could speed read a book by Bernard Lewis and integrate some of his thoughts: show some interest in the complexities of having war waged on you by a political/religious group rather than by a nation.</p>
<p>^Keep in mind that OP (and the rest of this applicant class) was in fourth grade when 9/11 happened.</p>
<p>I think this idea could work, as long as you follow Secret Asian Man’s advice.</p>
<p>@OP: It sounds like your essay (or at least your last paragraph) fits that other essay question, the one about outgrowing philosophies, better.</p>
<p>Well my essay talks about how I was CAUGHT into the fear by believing everything I heard on the news and I believed the US was the best country.
then i talk about how I now see the US as not being the best country because behind the power, we are all human being and we all make careless mistakes. when we are stripepd of our positions, we are all the same.</p>
<p>Can I say I out grew the believes?</p>
<p>that’s an interesting take on the prompt, but it may be hard to shape into an effective essay without sounding overly dramatic.</p>
<p>@pacers7ind, maybe if you could say what IS the best country and make a case for that, now that would be pretty original</p>
<p>OP, do you live in New York State?</p>