<p>DarthSpawnus, it appears you may have misinterpreted me. I meant to say that my essay spoke frivolously about wife beating, while clarifying that I wouldn’t consider it to be a frivolous topic in real life.</p>
<p>I’m doing the Plato–> Play-doh one too! great minds think alike! lol! good luck to all!!!</p>
<p>I think I’m writing mine on the don’t write about reverse psychology one! I’m not entirely sure how to write about it though! I’m writing it about a social issue!</p>
<p>The essays aren’t out yet…</p>
<p>Yeah, they are. Go check 'em out again.</p>
<p>That makes me nervous… They weren’t there a couple days ago. </p>
<p>Good luck everyone :)</p>
<p>Best of luck everyone :)</p>
<p>So I see essay question #4 is:
While working at the Raytheon Company, Percy Spencer noticed that standing in front of a magnetron (used to generate microwave radio signals) caused a chocolate bar in his pocket to melt. He then placed a bowl of corn in front of the device, and soon it was popping all over the room. A couple years later, Raytheon was selling the first commercial microwave oven.</p>
<p>Is it just me, but if the chocolate bar in his pocket is melting and the corn is popping, doesn’t it sound as though he is standing inside a microwave oven?! He is lucky he didn’t start melting or popping!</p>
<p>Is that what you think would really happen if you were inside a microwave?</p>
<p>@OxalisWombo I’ve never tried it. Have you? This woman did:
[Mother</a> accused of murder in baby’s microwave death - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-06-22-microwave-baby-death_n.htm]Mother”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-06-22-microwave-baby-death_n.htm)</p>
<p>Spencer would later die from complications due to exposure to radiation.</p>
<p>I left out the final sentence from Essay #4:
“Write about a time you found something you weren’t looking for.”
As ca2012 points out, clearly Spencer found something he wasn’t looking for. And this, I think, is what UChicago is getting at–be sure your great idea doesn’t kill you.</p>
<p>Essay Six - “Don’t write about reverse psychology.”</p>
<p>Well, aren’t you clever, Chicago? x)</p>
<p>Im applying EA for economics! I want to go so badly 1st choice!</p>
<p>Here is a list of how many Rhodes Scholars the top schools have had since 2000. (Chicago had a smaller number of undergraduates than most of these schools at the beginning of this period, though it has grown a bit in recent years.)</p>
<p>Harvard 38
Yale 26
Stanford 18
UChicago 15
Princeton 15
MIT 11
Colombia 7
Brown 7
Dartmouth 5
Penn 2</p>
<p>The top 5 producers of Rhodes Scholars these days are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UChicago, and Princeton. </p>
<p>The only schools that average at least one Rhodes Scholar winner each year (in recent years) are: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UChicago, Princeton, and MIT.</p>
<p>Updated with more schools:</p>
<p>Rhodes Scholars Winners by School since 2000:</p>
<p>Harvard 38
Yale 26
Stanford 18
UChicago 15
Princeton 15
MIT 11
Duke 10
Columbia 7
Brown 7
Dartmouth 5
Penn 2
Berkeley 2
Caltech 2</p>
<p>Note:
- UChicago had a smaller undergraduate program than many of these schools for most of those years
- UChicago is quite a bit more selective these days than 10 years ago, so number of winners will probably increase going forward
- While Harvard had the highest number of winners in absolute numbers, it also had by far the most applicants. According to the Stanford Daily, in a typical year 120 Harvard students apply for the award and maybe 3 to 6 win. At Stanford in a typical year, a dozen students apply and 1 or 2 win. So other schools have a better applicant to winner ratio than Harvard.</p>
<p>I’m with ya on this one. I keep reading these posts and I’m seeing all the competition right before my eyes. It’s a scary world out there!! :)</p>
<p>Nah
Think of the competition as an opportunity ;)</p>
<p>I know this is a lame, over-asked question but I’d just like some confirmation before deciding not to apply EA. I’ve always thought I’d apply EA since it’s nice to hear back early, but there is absolutely no advantage to doing so, right? Since it’s non-binding, stronger applicant pool, same admissions criteria, etc. </p>
<p>I visited UChicago last week and although I still like the school, it isn’t my first choice (if I got in EA, I would still apply RD to other schools) so I was thinking of just applying RD instead and having that extra time to work on essays.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, the admissions rates for EA applicants has been substantially higher than those for RD applicants for the past two years at least.</p>
<p>How much of that we can chalk up to stronger applicant pool and/or demonstrated interest is unknown.</p>