<p>For accepted students who already submitted their uncommon prompts for consideration towards next year’s application, what was your prompt? How did you think of it?</p>
<p>In his passage A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift satirized certain aspects of British policy with incisive wit. Use your own linguistic cunning to gently (or not so gently!) ridicule an aspect of society that you feel strongly about.</p>
<p>^^ That was my prompt for EA, I made it as my #5 Essay Question and wrote a response to it. Actually about poptarts and protectionism, it was fun. I thought about it while hanging in my dorm and eating a box of Pop Tarts 'Smores in the middle of a long day of economics and foreign policy at Pennsylvania Governor’s School for International Studies</p>
<p>Heh, I submitted 3 prompts, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to do that…</p>
<p>on the admitted students blog they say you are</p>
<p>Ever since I got that email, actual studying and homeworking has taken a backseat to thinking of something appropriately clever and refreshing. </p>
<p>C-Rev’s is really great! I’d love to write about that.</p>
<p>Here was mine:</p>
<p>Out of hubris, we’ve all been in a situation where we thought we had an insuperable upper hand. We each had no fear of repercussion, and thus acted carelessly. What happened to you when the “impossible” occurred–in fact, exactly opposite what you predicted–and you suffered not subtle defeat, but catastrophic failure?</p>
<p>When i asked this girl to prom.</p>
<p>Mine has to do with dyslexic donkeys…I’lll say more when I’m done with the essay and I submit it or I’m sure I’m not going to use it.</p>
<p>hahahahah I like how everybody’s so far is like a spiced-up version of the regular college essay prompt.</p>
<p>Mine was:</p>
<p>Write a tour guide to planet Earth to visitors from Zyrgha.</p>
<p>maybe I spelled it Zyrzgha-- I don’t quite remember</p>
<p>The one I submitted last year was roughly along these lines:</p>
<p>“In Tom Robbins’ novel ‘Skinny Legs and All’, some of of the most profound and important conversations take place between inanimate objects like a spoon, a conch shell and a can of tomato soup. Describe a conversation that some of your shelf-fillers or pantry tenants might have.”</p>
<p>I dunno, I thought it was a good one.</p>
<p>ha-- I think that’s great! Maybe it’s too similar to the big mustard one from last year.</p>
<p>I thought this was a fun task, and so will liekly submit a few more. Five minutes after recieving the e-mail I had replied with the questions below:</p>
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<p>Group events are all too common. We are schooled in groups, categorized by others into social and economic groups, and we even choose to make our own groups cliques for example.</p>
<p>The idea of a group is a good one to perform more than any one person could. In actuality, a group is not always so efficient. Groups can stall creativity, impose more red tape, and lend well to more turmoil than production.</p>
<p>Groups have been around since time immemorial. Religions, casts, tribes they all refer to the same idea.</p>
<p>Today, groups are often thought of less in terms of efficiency and more in terms of controllability and/or convenience: the media, democrats and republicans, corporations, teachers students. Has the perception of groups changed, or have the ideals behind them changed?</p>
<p>Discuss the pros and cons of groups as you can relate to them. How might they affect individuality, original thought, or even aspirations? Do they lend themselves more to productivity or to inefficiency and controversy?
What are the differences between group classifications and segregation group identities and stereotypes?</p>
<p>Groups are everywhere how is this affecting our world? How is it/ has it affected you as an individual?</p>
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<p>I know, it’s very long. I thought of it while looking at how my peers arranged themselves during lunch.</p>
<p>Everyone’s question so far is wonderful - and far more concise - good luck…</p>
<p>-Andrew D. Anderson</p>
<p>btw, made any headway in choosing a school andrew? (you know you want to go to chicago, right? lol)</p>
<p>I’m going to Chicago over Georgetown, almost positively. However, I’m not hearing back from MIT until the 18th of this month. In which case I may have some reevaluating to do.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I’ll end up at the U of C. Any ideas on the “best” dorm to shoot for?</p>
<p>-Andrew D. Anderson</p>
<p>I wrote one having to do with Lela Lee’s book “Angry Little Girls”. I asked people to describe how they would write a comicbook using similarly simple and stereotypical characters to describe your experiences in transportation.</p>
<p>And, btw Andrew, I really liked Max P. when I stayed; it is the ugly pink building in the middle of frat row.</p>
<p>Hey Andrew,</p>
<p>that’s great news. In all honesty, were I to do the whole process again, the only school I wish I had looked more closely at is MIT, and I have several friends in ur exact same position - if they get into MIT, its that, if not, then UofC.</p>
<p>In terms of dorms, I picked BJ. I liked it because they have really huge singles (from 10x12 to 15x15), and the houses there seem to be really nice, especially considering BJ olympics. The location is great (the closest dorm to a golf course, which is important to me) and it has a really nice basement lounge with pool and ping pong tables, tv, and snack shop. Plus, it has its own dinning hall. And, all of this, and I hadn’t mentioned the underground passageway to the law library (good during the harsh winters) and the fact that Kurt Vonnegut lived there. For me it was a no-brainer</p>
<p>Felipe</p>
<p>What type of olympic events do they involve? Is it along the pie eating and jello slurping contests, or the other “sports.”</p>
<p>I wrote my essay with questions. They’re going to hate it 
In fact, they’ll probably hate it so much that three application reviewers will write a small note explaining why they hate it and send it along with my rejection letter.</p>
<p>in terms of the olympic events, I think its a mix of actual sports and other mental/physical challenges, but I don’t think that they go to “fear factor” lengths</p>