chance at Chicago (junior)

badman89
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:59:32 +0000

Yes, I do feel that people on this board tend to over-emphasize the importance of essays. Maybe Chicago used to value the essays tremendously but I can’t help but feel that is not the case presently.
To be honest, when I applied to Chicago I didn’t know much about the college and wasn’t very keen on it (although now its on top of my college list!). I simply applied because many people told me that it was a great college. Since I wasn’t too bothered about the application, I simply submitted my common app. essay. Now don’t get me wrong, Its not that my essay wasn’t good, I was actually very impressed with it; it just didn’t seem to fit the bill of the extremely imaginative essays that were suggested on the “Uncommon app”. But I still got in…