The questions are in!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p><a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/b/2012/05/15/the-common-application-essay-requirements-for-2011-2012.htm[/url]”>http://collegeapps.about.com/b/2012/05/15/the-common-application-essay-requirements-for-2011-2012.htm&lt;/a&gt; (It’s actually for 2012-2013)</p>

<p>That site will explain the essay length and prompts for the common app. The UChicago supplement prompts are those listed by the OP (choose 1 and respond), likely a “Why UChicago” prompt asking why do you want to go to UChicago (such as “How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community and future?”) and possibly a “What are your favorite things?” essay prompt for an optional essay (such as “Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.”)</p>

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<p>PAG thank you so much, that’ll help me a lot with UChicago and other schools that I’m applying to as well</p>

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<p>Wait so UChicago asks for the applicant to do one of the essays listed on the first page of this thread as well as a “Why Chicago” essay?</p>

<p>How many supplement essays are there exactly?</p>

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<p>Yes, pick 1 of the previous 6 essays and you also have to write a “Why UC” essay.</p>

<p>Okay, so you have your CommonApp essay. Then, you have your 1/6 essay. Then you have you the “why” essay. And then you have the optional last “favorites” essay.</p>

<p>Anyone want to back me up on this? Or correct me? I’m navigating this process as well.</p>

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<p>Infiniteloop, you are correct!</p>

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<p>That’s what it was last year, hopefully it stays the same!</p>

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<p>Do we have the wording for the Why UChicago essay? The exact question, I mean?</p>

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<p>I can copy it from my common app. but you will have plenty of time to write it once the new common app is up and the uchicago supplement comes out.</p>

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<p>I’m a little confused with the 5th prompt. It’s essentially open prompt, right? Or is the essay about coming up with the prompt, i.e. finding the question instead of the answer?</p>

<p>And by invent a past for it means fiction, right?</p>

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<p>Generally, it means open prompt. Although your idea about finding the question instead of the answer could be a interesting and not common way to go about it.</p>

<p>And yeah, make up the past. Or not? These questions are pretty open so you’re free to interpret however you want.</p>

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<p>When are those “other topics” released??? Thank you very much!!!</p>

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<p>The other topics are “Why Chicago”, and an optional answer. They never change.</p>

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<p>Is it a bad idea to choose the “Make your own question” essay? It feels like I’m giving up a challenge by doing that.</p>

<p>…Or maybe I’m underestimating what UChicago will accept as an invented essay question!</p>

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<p>Can I write a fiction piece of the arch nemesis prompt? I was planning on talking about our relationship through the fictious story.</p>

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<p>Can you? Yes. Should you? Only if you can make it work to reveal the authentic you. Don’t go for a gimmick just for the sake of being different. Your first priority is to reveal something about you or the way you think (the way you think isn’t necessarily effectively revealed through a fictitious story).</p>