<p>"What is your favorite ride at the amusement park? How does this reflect your approach to life?"</p>
<p>Now THAT is a supplemental question I wish all colleges did. Love it :)</p>
<p>Is that on the ED and RD app. now? Because I heard it was on transfer, and it surprised me. It’s probably a new tactic by Emory to try to gauge the level of creativity in applicants. Basically, as Provost Lewis implied, time to get serious about class shaping and getting even more academic diversity. Basically, the app. supplement seems to be similar to the type Chicago takes (but not quite as rigorous/interesting, but definitely a start). The first question is a far more difficult advanced version of “why Emory?” and I guess is supposed to be more useful in weeding out students who aren’t truly interested or didn’t take the time to learn anything about the school. I think that if these are on the ED/RD app., it’ll make things interesting. I’m curious as to how it’ll play out and whether it’ll begin to get what the provost is looking for. As far as I’m concerned it would be better for Emory to get its own niche of applicants as opposed to the ones that really want to be elsewhere or see the school as the same as other peers, which it is certainly not (differences, other than quality, are astounding in many cases. People shouldn’t be settling for Emory b/c it’s a top 20. They should either like/care about what it has to offer or find a non-top 20 that matches the other top 20s they actually liked).</p>