Originally posted by Elara

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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?

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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.

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