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Starting Your College Application Essays For 2012-2013: The Four Types
Yes, folks, it’s time to get your essays started. If you think that this is premature because most universities haven’t yet released their applications for next year, I simply point to the Common...
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The University of Chicago Essay Prompts for 2012-2013
The University of Chicago has posted its questions for this year. They are earlier in getting out their prompts than many of their competitors, which is only fair–they will, as usual, have some of the...
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University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt Two: You Wanna Schroedinger’s...
If the title of this post on Chicago’s application essay, prompt two, seems obscure, let’s first take a look at the prompt itself: Essay Option 2. Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the...
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University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt 3: The Dark Lady
This post will discuss Ms. Sontag and her quote at great length, but I will also focus on the broader problems of responding to quote prompts, particularly the context issues that quotes raise. The...
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University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt 4: A Lesson in Invention and...
This post ranges far and wide as it covers prompt 4 for the University of Chicago for this year. Warning: this is one of my few remaining “freebie” posts for this year. Other posts will be available...
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The University Of Chicago Essay Prompt On The Mantis Shrimp: Seeing Is Believing
This post will focus on another Chicago prompt with both humorous and philosophical potential, yes that one on the mantis shrimp. To refresh your memory, here it is: ESSAY OPTION 4. The mantis shrimp...
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Back To The University Of Chicago Application Essays: What They Aren’t...
This post is on last year’s University of Chicago prompts. If you want to write an essay about history for a college app that would allow a response on this basic topic, go ahead and read the post...
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The University of Chicago Application Essays: Prompt 2, Part 2
I gave background to U Chicago’s Application Essay Prompt 2 in my last post; in this post, I will provide some more specific suggestions and sources for essay inspiration. Before I do, here is the...
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The University of Chicago Supplements for 2016-2017: A Quick Sample on...
Greetings U Chicago Want-To-Be’s. Welcome to a look at the University of Chicago application essays for 2016-2017. Our topic today: Essay Option 5. Vestigiality refers to genetically determined...
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They’re Baaack: The University of Chicago Application Essay Prompts for...
And this year, the essay prompts from U Chicago, a.k.a. “The Place Fun Goes to Die” are a little more lightweight and also more personal than in previous years. Overall, this year’s U Chicago prompts...
View ArticleAnd They’re Off: College Essay Season Has Begun
Some of the major super-selective colleges and a range of other solid schools have already released their essay prompts for 2018-2019, and the Common Application and Coalition portals have had their...
View ArticleHow to Write the University of Chicago Application Essay for 2018-2019, Part...
Also known as the essay for students who wish to absquatulate to the University of Chicago, or if you prefer, to skedaddle, or for those who are in a real hurry, to skidoo. Always suckers for a...
View ArticleHow to Write a College Application Essay About a Quote in 2018-2019: Part 2
Also known as How to Write the University of Chicago Application Essay: Part 2 I ended my last post by looking at U Chicago, so let’s return to that now. Here are two of the numerous prompts from...
View ArticleHow to Write The University of Chicago Supplemental Essays for...
Yes, it’s that time again, as the mundane meets the off-the-wall in the University of Chicago questions for 2019-2020. The mundane comes first: University of Chicago Question 1 for 2019-2020...
View ArticleThe University of Chicago Admissions Essay for 2019-2020: How to Write for...
Next up: the Off-the-Wall, otherwise known as Chicago’s Essay Number Two. Below you will find all of the prompts, which includes new prompts for this year and a selection of golden oldies from years...
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