<p>for the why essay, should i try to do something original, or just stick to a regular explanation?
for the optional books/movies thing, does it have to be an essay?
or can it just be a list of favorite stuff</p>
<p>1) You can do whatever you want :)</p>
<p>2) I suggest putting it in paragraph form.</p>
<p>You can do whatever you want for both options.</p>
<p>well it says
Respond to Question 1 - and, if you choose, Question 2 - by writing a paragraph or two for each question.
so it seems like they want paragraphs
though question 2 is worded as if they want to know a bunch of your favorite things, which is weird since they say 1 to 2 paragraphs</p>
<p>Well it does say a few of your favorites. I personally chose two things, explaining each in a paragraph. Could you make it work by having more? Sure, why not.</p>
<p>I wrote over a dozen paragraphs for the Why Chicago essay.
For favorite things, I wrote one paragraph about one book (The Kite Runner ftw).
One of my friends got in last year by writing a song about her favorite things.</p>
<p>i wrote about one of my favorite magazines, got in EA. so, i’m sure you can interpret it however you want… but i don’t suggest just a laundry list of your favorite books/songs/etc…</p>
<p>ok thanks
i think i’ll do a couple paragraphs about my favorite movie</p>
<p>can the 'why chicago?'essay be longer than 3 paragraphs</p>
<p>Hey, for the “How did you get caught” question, is it ok to use something that is completely made up, like a fantasy story?</p>
<p>@samsung8</p>
<p>If you can make the story plausible go for it.
But if you write about something real and you write it well, it will always be better than a made up story.</p>
<p>@crimsonmist:
Mine was 12-13 ish paragraphs and I got in.</p>
<p>Well, it’s about quality! Don’t forget about quality in the search for quantity! Good luck!!!</p>
<p>For what it’s worth. For the why Chicago essay, my son’s regular explanation was also somewhat original I think. For the favorite things he had three books and three movies and wrote a paragraph for each which summarized common elements. (I can think of other approaches that would also be fine, but I’d lean away from a list - though I think my older son did give Harvard a list of books he’d read in a year - there were more than 100.) My son’s main Chicago caught essay was fiction.</p>
<p>Really, truly, there is no ONE right way to answer these questions.</p>