<p>1) Where you’re from
South Florida
2) When you submitted your application
Supplement on the 16th, CommonApp on the 30th
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
I didn’t work on my app; instead, I pulled a Jackson Pollock and sent in six pages of randomly scattered characters.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yes
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Made up my own prompt
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Uncommon Essay
7) What you want to major in
Computer Science & Economics
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Definitely a safety. If I don’t get into ITT Tech or University of Phoenix, then maybe I’ll consider UChicago.
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
I’m only applying because they gave me a free t-shirt and I felt bad.</p>
<p>1) The lovely state of Washington
2) Oct. 26th
3) A month, give or take
4) Yes
5) My arch-nemesis, our relationship, and me
6) My arch-nemesis, our relationship, and me
7) Economics (potentially with a double major/minor in Creative Writing)
8) It’s a reach school for everyone
9) Impossible to quantify
10) I have a bad relationship with sharp corners</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
The rainy and gloomy state of Washington.
2) When you submitted your application
October 16th
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
I worked on them for approximately two months. But the work I did on them was very sporadic.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yup!
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Where’s Waldo?
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
I like my optional favorites essay, but my friends all say that the Waldo one was my best writing.
7) What you want to major in
Probably either Psychology or Statistics.
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
IT’S TOTALLY MY SAFETY OMGERZ
9) What’s your favorite pokemon?
Togepi for sure!</p>
<p>1)Alabama.
2)Was going to apply early action but thought i’d work on my essay a bit more aka Cold Feet.
3)Started mid september and still working on them. Well it is complete, just improving the essays.
4)Yep !
5) Invent a past for your present.
6) Its a tie.
7) Economics. (minor in creative writing)
8) It’s a reach for everyone.
9) On a scale of 1 to hopeless longing. Hopeless longing. I’m in love with their Econ department and them in general.
10) My favorite Pokemon is Charizard. I still keep his Poke Card in my wallet. I’m 20 and unashamed.</p>
<p>1) Canadian girl
2) Not yet, submitting RD
3) I’ve put so much time aand energy into this specific supplement because I had so much fun writing it! I really wanted it to be as good as can be
4) Yes, wrote about my music education from my father (classic rock, a bit of punk) and how I still have the same taste
5) Make up a past for the present
6) A tie between my commonapp essay (wrote about the effect of the lebanese war of 2006 on who I am today) and my present essay
7) Biological sciences, but I’m so happy about the emphasis on humanities in the Core
8) Definitely a reach, but nothing is impossible
9) 11</p>
<p>Hi CC peers, altho U of Chicago is not my #1 choice, it’s definitely one of the universities I would love to go to.
Korean student studying in Canada
Within 2 days
Like a week or so. Carefully researched about U of C programs and strengths
Yes, listed bunch of books+ other stuff. Picked one of the book and wrote how the book taught me the process of a society being communized and the psychology of the citizens. And then I related to North Korea, the opponent of South Korean government.
The topic you chose for your creative essay? haha this would be awkward but I wrote about my ‘informal suspension’, connecting to Silence topic. I started with a situation in which I was unjustly put in conflict with a school prefect and how I was ‘informally’ suspended without a legitimate procedure just cuz the prefect had such a strong tie with the school. With my SNS IDs expropriated by school authorities, I wrote my experience of forced silence.
In your opinion, which was your best essay? The silence essay, and I’m dead serious. lol I worked so hard not to be emotional or involved in victim psychology.
What you want to major in: Economics… yea probably toughest in U of Chicago
Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you: Altho I think U chicago would be a match for me with decent SAT, EC and etc, but like other Ivys, U chicago can never be either likely or safety school. Always the reach for everyone except for those who has 2400 SAT, gd ECs and LEGACY.
How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10? I would say 9. I gave 10 to Columbia and MIT</p>
<p>I guess the most interesting essay would come out of Waldo topic. Among those who picked ‘Where is Waldo, really?’, how did you present your thoughts? I thought lot of them would end up being homogenous so I chose silence topic. So, anyone else approached differently to the Waldo topic from ‘Waldo doesn’t exist’? I’m so curious to find out how other approached that topic!</p>
<p>I’m pretty confident my essay is one of the best Waldo responses in the EA applicant pool. Literally everyone I’ve shown it to were blown away by its ingenuity and wit. This includes a few current students as well as alumni. My alumni interviewer basically died when I explained it to him. </p>
<p>If I get in EA I’ll think about posting it in it’s entirety here. Or maybe I’ll wait for the RD decisions to come in. We’ll see :P</p>
<p>Quick question–after submitting the CA and the supplement and the payment to UChicago, how do you go about creating your personal UChicago Account? I haven’t gotten any info. on that. Thanks people :)</p>
<p>What are you guys seeing in your uchicago accounts? I only see the supplement and common app, is there a way to check test scores, transcripts, and teacher recs?</p>
<p>Just submitted my application to U of Chicago. I think my U of Chicago essay was the best among all other Ivy application essays in part that I had lot of things to talk about U chicago’s economics programs. Also, U Chicago doesn’t have any strict word limits which helped me a lot to vividly show the event in the essay in detail. For other Ivy essays, I couldn’t put lot of details since they have word limits. I still don’t think admission officers will ‘die’ or be ‘blown away’ but I think they would be impressed at my essay topic+ my approach and how specially fit I am in economics program in Chicago.</p>
<p>oh btw, here is what I thought about 2400bro. UChicago’s alumni interview obviously graduated from UChicago which means that he or she would probably be very very educated. So as a student, it will be almost impossible to make him or her ‘die’ just with an essay from a high school student unless the student is some kinda writing genius. I just assumed it was an exaggeration.</p>
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