@futureauteur Ohhh nice!!! Are you guys identical? My twin and I aren’t. I’m a girl he is a guy so we’re fraternal…obviously lol.
@olireg02 Great essay! I can totally relate to the topic. I’ve never highlighted in a book lol. I guess I would be on team pristine-book-lovers. I cringe when a page gets folded. But in the end, we all just love the books in our own ways.
@AnimeMango cool! and yea we are identical (girls lol). oh man, now we definitely both gotta get in so we can bond over our twinness at uchicago!!!
@futureauteur Yess!! And we need to get in so we can rant to @olireg02 about her great essay!!
Rooting for you!!!
@futureauteur What major did you apply for? I applied for the Neuroscience major and the East Asian Language and Civilizations minor. The school just seems to have everything that I want!
@AnimeMango wow thats really cool! I’ve always loved neuroscience (well, the thought of it at least). and it honestly does have everything. I applied for cinema and media studies as well as preparation for business careers…so nervousssssss
Nice! Now we just gotta wait a couple more weeks…gahhh.
I mean, I think I have some chance of getting in…
but then again you never know, you know?
I can’t wait another second!!! I just want to know now! How am I supposed to take my mind off this? Does anyone know yet the exact date that they are releasing the decisions?
@stockqueen I know right! I want to know already. Then I’ll know how much I need to stress for the next few months. Like I said before, I think they’re going to release early action decisions around Dec 19th. But that’s just what I heard through the grapevine so who knows how accurate it is.
^^^yea I’ve checked past CC post and its always been around December 15-20
ED decisions are probably going to be announced a bit earlier so those people can do things like withdraw other applications and discuss aid.
Am I the only one who doesn’t recognize any of the prompts being mentioned? I wrote mine on ‘create your own portal’. Did I miss something?
The “Square One” prompt was there this year.
there was the option to use one of their old prompts. Also, I don’t think all of the essays are from this year… I recognized essay 3 from other forums. It was kind of controversial. Here’s a link to an article about it from 2009 http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/a-college-essay-inspires-controversy/?_r=0
I actually like that essay. Very clever. Definitely cheeky 
Yours is great as well, @olireg02. Our family has a lot in common with you!
@olireg02 Congratulations!
@futureauteur @NikkuWadde What prompts did you guys answer for the extended essay? I did a past prompt and went with the “pick any present you have received and invent a past for it.” It was hard, but fun.
I choose the one that was like “how does language separate you” I talked about being able to speak Arabic. @AnimeMango
On another note, I just find out I am a Coca Cola scholars semi finalist. Should I let my admissions counselor know about this? (I applied EA).
Chose portal prompt