<p>"Take as a model Options 1 through 4 as you pose and respond to a prompt of your own. Please do not submit an essay written for the Common Application. Your prompt should be original and thoughtful. 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>
<p>Does this mean we create our own prompt? I know it literally says this, but I wanted it to be sure. So we create our own prompt to which we answer?</p>