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Posts: 606/641		 Guess what guys, essay questions are up for UoC. Now maybe you'll see why I like their prompts. :O


Essay Option 1
Chicago professor W. J. T. Mitchell entitled his 2005 book "What Do Pictures Want?" Describe a picture and explore what it wants.
Proposed by Anna Andel, a graduate of Bard High School Early College, New York, NY.

Essay Option 2
The University of Chicago has a venerable tradition of seminar-based learning, in which students and professors gather around the classroom table to discuss ideas. Less venerable, but no less valuable, is our tradition of conversation around another table–the dinner table. Indeed, on any given night you will find members of our student community breaking bread together, discussing everything from The Symposium to The Simpsons. We in the admissions office would argue that a community can be defined by its table—by its shape, by who finds a seat there, by what transpires there, by what is inspired there. Tell us about your table.
Essay Option 3
In Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths, he writes a parable entitled “Borges y yo,” which translates as “Borges and I.” In it, Borges writes about “the other one,” his counterpart, who shares his preference for “hourglasses, maps, eighteenth century typography, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Stevenson,” but is not the same as he. “The other one” is the famous author; “the other one” is the one “things happen to.” He concludes this parable with the line “I do not know which of us has written this page.” Write a page. Who has written it?
Proposed by Zhuyi Elizabeth Sun, a graduate of Inglemore High School, Bothell, WA.

Essay Option 4
Modern improvisational comedy had its start with The Compass Players, a group of University of Chicago students, who later formed the Second City comedy troupe. Here is a chance to play along. Improvise a story, essay, or script that meets all of the following requirements:
It must include the line “And yes I said yes I will Yes” (Ulysses, by James Joyce).
Its characters may not have superpowers.
Your work has to mention the University of Chicago, but please, no accounts of a high school student applying to the University–this is fiction, not autobiography.
Your work must include at least four of the following elements:
a paper airplane
a transformation
a shoe
the invisible hand
two doors
pointillism
a fanciful explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem
a ventriloquist or ventriloquism
the Periodic Table of the Elements
the concept of jeong
number two pencils
Essay Option 5
Take as a model Options 1 through 4 as you pose and respond to a prompt of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, sensible woman or man, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk and have fun.
Elara
Posts: 4545/9736		 Well, then I say that Chicago sounds like the winner.
Logos
Posts: 604/641		 For most courses with an A or B that don't have a placement test, then you can earn credit through satisfactory results through them. This is okay, since I only have As and Bs in college.
Elara
Posts: 4544/9736		 Does University of Chicago take transfer credits?
Logos
Posts: 603/641		 Well, first of all, thanks for all the support. Some colleges I was interested in right now are:

St. Johns, which has a very down-to-earth, classical approach and grants a general Bachlor's Degree (They go through Newton's Principia and Euclid's Elements). It has a pretty nice application too, a 5~10 page essay on three topics, and no SAT/ACT required, and although mine is more than decent, I like that they're not so obsessed with College board and all that nonsense. It happens to reside in both Santa Fe, NM as well as Annapolis, MA. One of the caveats is that they don't allow transfer credit, and I'd have to go the full four years there. Just a note.

I'm also interested in University of Chicago, which has a very engaging curriculum as well as a interesting essay in their application. However, the competition is to say the least, cut-throat, especially in economics. Specifically, they have a very theoretical approach to economics and mathematics, and uses a lot of books and papers that are assuredly top notch. They also happen to offer a combined math-econ major as well as a combined BA/MA program. Nifty.



Elara
Posts: 4537/9736		 If you really like math you could always go into robotics. My friend is doing that, the program is eager for applicants, you get to travel around a lot, and apparently it is very lucrative.
Katana
Posts: 2199/3649		 I really can't offer much advice since I'm on the other side of the country, and I really didn't do much research of schools on the West Coast. I would have LOVED to head over there for film, but even with scholarships and such, I would never be able to cover any additional costs. The scholarships I earned only covers tuition for the most part anyway.

However, I dunno, I guess I'm kinda going through the same thing you are right now. I just changed my major and I am enrolled in a community college and will transfer out. (Though since I changed my major, I have to stay a tad bit longer, but my transfer agreements have to be made and decided by this year, due to scholarships and such) Point is, it gets overwhelming doing this by yourself. So if that becomes a problem for you too, I dun mind talking with ya about it. Besides, just in case you do decide to look here on the East Coast, I'll do whatever I can to go about getting information for you. Since I go to a community college, it's not hard to find any information on the schools over here.
Belial
Posts: 320/647		 I've had issues like these...

You need to find which subject interests you, then find jobs that deal with that subject. Research them until you find one you like.

If it's mathematics and economics you like, have you thought of accounting?

Or, if anything, just go for a liberal arts major until you can decide. The liberal arts major will let you do a variety of classes, so you will know for sure what you want,

Don't go to UCSD.... I've seen many-a-lives destroyed there. It's a party school, nothing else. As is UCSB. They have giant books in bookstores that list top school with each subject and everything.
Makura
Posts: 1491/1555		 Then Literature or English would be good, I'd imagine. I don't know a whole lot about what those Majors offer.
Logos
Posts: 601/641		 Dunno, I always wanted to write a book.
Elara
Posts: 4527/9736		 Career wise Logos. I figured Grad school.
Logos
Posts: 598/641		 Go to grad school?
Elara
Posts: 4519/9736		 Well, the question is then, what do you want to do with your degree?
Logos
Posts: 596/641		 That's the thing, I'm not interested in engineering. I definitely don't think math is an intermediary, it's the end and means and everything in between.
Makura
Posts: 1404/1555		 If you're into math UCI is a great school for it. I'd say if you can handle math go after engineering if it's something that interests you. It pays really well. In which case, I know CSULB has at the very least a decent engineering program and it's not as steep as UCI.
Logos
Posts: 595/641
Originally posted by Elara
UCSD... San Diego? Just checking.

But yeah, there are many good schools... you just need to research them. UCLA is good, so is USC but it is a private school so yeah, biased against it. Both schools have good econ/math programs. Hell check out the Cal State schools as well. If you get the really good grades and can afford it there is always a chance of getting into Harvard or Stanford. maybe Pepperdine or something.

Granted, no matter where you go, econ and math are both rather dull majors. Define "public policy"... political science? Law?

Well, I'm really not interested in much in econometrics as much as economic theory and pure mathematics--although they diverge, frankly.

Frankly, I'd agree with you about the econ-math thing being dull, the typical econometrics seems dull to me too. I thought math would be pure at the college level, but it's just as bad as high school. If I might provide an analog, pure math would be to baking a cake as the usual math course is to warming up a frozen, preprocessed one. And as everyone knows, "it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake."
Elara
Posts: 4515/9736		 UCSD... San Diego? Just checking.

But yeah, there are many good schools... you just need to research them. UCLA is good, so is USC but it is a private school so yeah, biased against it. Both schools have good econ/math programs. Hell check out the Cal State schools as well. If you get the really good grades and can afford it there is always a chance of getting into Harvard or Stanford. maybe Pepperdine or something.

Granted, no matter where you go, econ and math are both rather dull majors. Define "public policy"... political science? Law?
Logos
Posts: 592/641		 Okay, this year I'll be enrolling in my sophomore year in a community college and have a guaranteed admission contract with UCSD come next fall, more or less. However, I frankly don't like UCSD and it's not for reasons related to prestige. They follow a rather dull, super-applied curriculum that I can't really face with much eagerness--incidentally, I'm trying to major in economics-mathematics, although I'd be just as happy doing something like public policy or the like. Any suggestions?
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