This year's essays come out today -thoughts?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p><a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=376%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=376&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>good, bad, ugly?</p>

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<p>they are not yet up, so no thoughts</p>

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<p>I'm excited to see them. But alas, I still have another year to wait for my chance.</p>

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<p>I wish they'd post it already :(</p>

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<p>same</p>

<p>.......</p>

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<p>I've pretty much waited a week for this... >.<</p>

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<p>^ Yea, that and AP scores for me...</p>

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<p>Well it's 5:35 Chicago time. I think the website is lying to us.</p>

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<p>it feels like chicago is always late with stuff........</p>

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<p>Like their love for me....................</p>

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<p>The essay questions actually are out, they just aren't where you would expect them to be. </p>

<p><a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=310%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=310&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If you scroll to the bottom of that page and open the fresman application, even though it says it's for the 2006-2007 school year when you open the file it says that it's the 2007-2008 application and has the new essay questions.</p>

<p>EDIT: Wow maybe I'm not that smart, if you click on the link at the top that says to download the application it take you to a page that says 2007-2008 Application for Admission and Financial Aid.</p>

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<p>He's right. They're on page 11 of the Uncommon App online.</p>

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<p>Wow. Thanks for finding them.</p>

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<p>I couldn't find it on the essay pages (I didn't want to scan through 33 pages...), but are there word limits for any of the essays?</p>

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<p>The only thing that I can find says that the extended essays should be just a page or two, so I don't think there is any specific word limit other than you shouldn't write more than two pages.</p>

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<p>I've got to say, a little bit of a disappointment, at least compared to last years'.</p>

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<p>Thanks. =)</p>

<p>I like #3 and #4.</p>

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<p>Question 1. How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to Chicago.
Question 2. Would you please tell us about a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, magazines, or newspapers? Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.
To develop this year’s extended essay options, we emailed the students who had been admitted last year and asked them for topics. We received several hundred responses, many of which were eloquent, intriguing, or downright wacky. As you can see by the attributions, the questions below were inspired by submissions by your peers.
Essay Option 1
“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”—Miles Davis (1926–91)
Inspired by Jack Reeves, a graduate of Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, CT
Essay Option 2
In his book Having Everything Right: Essays of Place, Kim Stafford describes the Kwakiutl tribe of British Columbia assigning place-names based on the natural characteristics of a location, the events that took place there, or the feelings that the site instilled. “Where Salmon Gather,” “Sound of Dripping Water,” and “Where Dzō’noq!wa Cried Out Oh,” were among the names the Kwakiutl people assigned to their surroundings. Hē’ladē, translating to “Place Having Everything Right,” was of particular meaning, as it was the name universally given to exceptional locations. What is your hē’ladē?
Inspired by Ian Gavlick, a graduate of Hockinson High School, Vancouver, WA
Essay Option 3
You are hosting a brunch for historical, literary, or other disreputable persons (think: Mad Hatter’s Tea Party). What is your menu? Who are your guests? In answering this question, imagine a scenario: We want some exposition, serious or silly, we would accept some dialogue, and we are willing to trust you to respond in such a way that your brain power, your imagination, your sense of taste, and your capacity to tell a story reveal something true about you.
Inspired by Alex Tievsky, a graduate of Oakton High School, Vienna, VA
Essay Option 4
The Cartesian coordinate system is a popular method of representing real numbers and is the bane of eighth graders everywhere. Since its introduction by Descartes in 1637, this means of visually characterizing mathematical values has swept the globe, earning a significant role in branches of mathematics such as algebra, geometry, and calculus. Describe yourself as a point or series of points on this axial arrangement. If you are a function, what are you? In which quadrants do you lie? Are x and y enough for you, or do you warrant some love from the z-axis? Be sure to include your domain, range, derivative, and asymptotes, should any apply. Your possibilities are positively and negatively unbounded.
Inspired by Joshua Nalven, a graduate of West Orange High School, West Orange, NJ
Essay Option 5
Take as a model the students who inspired Options 1 though 4 as you pose and respond to an uncommon prompt of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, sensible woman or man, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk and have fun</p>

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<p>aww they didnt use mine. ohh well.</p>

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<p>Just curious, what was yours felipecocco?</p>