<p>I don’t have to know? -____-</p>
<p>Nope, there is a bunch of great writers that I don’t know of. By the way which country are you from.</p>
<p>Wow you guys. Reading this thread makes me feel intimidated. </p>
<p>You guys are all so intelligent and charismatic and witty (with a dash of ego)! Any college would be lucky to have you. </p>
<p>I answered the what is history prompt and wrote about a bagel. It’s probs pretty weird and not that great. I wrote my why UChicago essay in 45 minutes on the 8th (but it was one of my better supplements I think) and the optional favorites I focused on my love for House and a bunch of other TV shows/movies/directors (any joss whedon lovers out there?). </p>
<p>Oh, and I want to go to UChicago for all the aforementioned reasons. Plus their Harlem Shake video is amazing. Also, Phillip Glass is an alumnus and I fan girl over him.</p>
<p>I’m glad you said something neon tissues, the amount of intelligence and sass on this thread is quite intimidating (but awesome!) Your essay sounds really cool, I’m so curious how you connected bagels to who’s version of history we hear.</p>
<p>Thanks EnoughNerve! I basically connected my quest to figure out the flavor of a really gross bagel I ate with the immensity of history that cannot ever be known. It was definitely not my usual writing style, and it was a stark contrast against my super serious, self-reflective common app essay.</p>
<p>At the end of my why uchicago essay I added something like “If nothing else gives you incentive to accept me, please know that I will make an excellent polar bear runner” thinking it would be cute but now the more I think about it the more stupid it sounds and it makes me cringe haha. Hopefully admissions feels differently!</p>
<p>Also, you guys are seriously awesome and I love you already</p>
<p>I should mention that I do love the West Wing, and chose it because it legitimately is my favorite show. I didn’t pick it because it fit with my major. </p>
<p>As for my why U Chicago essay, I talked about wanting to go there due to the intellectual environment that will create a lot of late night conversations with fellow students. It is my main reason why, and it is unique, so I went with it.</p>
<p>@yalesoon, I would definitely accept you, because that sounds ADORABLE. Don’t second guess it. I’m Sure it was a great essay :D</p>
<p>Once upon a time, I was absolutely obsessed with House 
I’ve heard West Wing is good, but I quit TV shows altogether …</p>
<p>For the optional essay, I wrote about three of my favorite TED talks (I am obsessed with TED talks but don’t plan on quitting this one anytime soon)
@debater1996 YES shout out to late night conversations. You would have been really happy at TASP - a summer program that I went to 
We are infamous for 3-am talks on social justice.</p>
<p>@yalesoon THAT IS NOT BAD AT ALL. very adorable, if anything.
But I can totally sympathize with your feeling, just like anything I say in real life and later on wish I never said that…</p>
<p>To those who wrote the history prompt who did you defined as “they”</p>
<p>Aw thanks guys, you’re amazing 
I love TED talks too! I think I put them in the “favorite things” section because I just listed stuff haha</p>
<p>@omar here is an excerpt from my history essay (feel free to gloat at how much better your writing is):</p>
<p>“Even if we traveled to the past, and
studied the people and the circumstances and answered all the superficial questions, history is
not solved or completed. History is the never-ending pursuit of knowledge of the past and its
inhabitants: citizens, dictators, lovers, emperors, soldiers, mothers, fathers people who
thought and lived and feared and hoped and loved. To understand their plights, triumphs, and
tragedies is much like learning to speak an extinct language with barely-visible clues on an
ancient rock.”</p>
<p>Sounds great! I am not the type of person who think that he is better than anyone else. In fact, I hate that.</p>
<p>Wow it makes me sad that there is a -2% chance of getting accepted to U of C now because you guys are all so awesome. :(</p>
<p>@ohhayitsme who knows, we might be pleasantly surprised!! (unlikely, i know)</p>
<p>LET’S KEEP THE HOPE GOING GUYS</p>
<p>GG</p>
<p>I’m estimating that the acceptance rate will be about 12.4%. So, each of us has a 12.4% chance of being accepted. </p>
<p>@neon</p>
<p>Your excerpt sounds great! Since I didn’t read the whole thing, I don’t necessarily know what angle you took the prompt from (and therefore, the quality of the essay), but the style of writing was strong.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m the only one who didn’t do the smaller supplemental questions as full essays. Like I did both of them as 1-2 paragraph answers… Whoops? 
</p>
<p>“Is anyone else here a fan of Joss Whedon”…haha YES. Love him.</p>
<p>My “Why UChicago” was relatively long - a little over 500 words. I didn’t learn until later it’s supposed to be about half that. I wrote my “favorite things” essay in 3 short paragraphs - 1 about Impressionism (if you didn’t catch that from my name), 1 about fantasy novels, and 1 about slam poetry. In hindsight, I could have written more creatively on different things I like, but it was late on the 8th and I just wanted to get it in.</p>
<p>I did mine as 1-2 paragraph answers too @platypigirl
Probably because my extended essay was over 1000 words…</p>