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I need help on COLLEGE essays. plz?

Would you please tell us about a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, magazines, or newspapers? Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to Chicago.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there."—Miles Davis (1926–91)
Inspired by Jack Reeves, a graduate of Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, CT




im completely lost on all three of these. PLEASE HELP.

2006-12-08 16:56:58 · 3 answers · asked by madskillz1358 2 in Education & Reference Other - Education

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University of Chicago is one of those near-Ivy leage level schools and EXTREMELY difficult to get into. If you can't write an essay that explains why you want to be there, that's probably a clue that it's not the best fit for you.

However, I accept that you might just be overwhelmed and have writers block. Start thinking about this: Why do you want to apply to UChicago? Is it the academics? If so, what major have you chosen and why is it important to you? Do you just want to study in Chicago? No one will argue if you talk about the great museums and culture that they have.

FOR EXAMPLE: You could talk about how you want to help poor communtities, such as Southside Chicago, and UChicago could help with that because they are intertwined with the greater-Chicago area and have lots of volunteering chances, and you could study something like Public Health to help figure out health care for the lower-class areas, or psychology because you want to be a social worker, and UChicago will help you in that area.

There's a million things you could write about. Just take a step back and think about why you want to be there. Another good way to do this is take the viewbook they sent you, and pick something that really stood out to you and made you want to apply.

2006-12-08 17:06:49 · answer #1 · answered by stopspucks88 3 · 0 0

Birth Name: Rillian; now R(modified identify) a million. Awful stories. I was once regularly teased as little one for no longer having a truly identify. As a teen peers insisted on calling me Killian after the low-priced beer Killians. In institution I discovered that I wasn't getting scholarships or different possibilities at the same time humans with slash grades and no more enjoy within the identical field had been. I modified my identify legally and nearly instantly humans who simplest knew me on paper began taking me critically. An illustration: I firstly implemented to graduate faculties as Rillian. I had an undergrad four.zero however I did not get a unmarried present. The subsequent yr--having performed no additional coursework and with the identical private declaration--I reapplied with the modified identify and was once approved with investment to all 8 universities to which I had implemented. I believe this can be a quite transparent illustration of a reputation protecting a man or woman again. two. My identify comes from the identify of a prince within the Narnia sequence (my mom has an obsession). To make the identify "female" she further an additional L. I do not believe it labored. three. Personally I do not like Rillian, however I'm used to it. I nonetheless reply to it and my loved ones nonetheless calls me it. What I fairly do not like is the way it labored on a respectable degree. four. I'd alternatively no longer say what I modified my identify to on the web, sorry. five. Rillian and R(modified identify). Rillian with loved ones, usually with my husband (we had been relationship while I modified it). We've moved on account that I modified my identify, so every person in my new town simplest is aware of me via my new identify. 6. I did not difference my final identify while I obtained married, customarily considering the fact that I had simply modified my first identify a yr earlier than and did not consider like doing the forms once more. I would possibly get round to it someday, I won't. 7. They're OK. My maiden identify and my husband's final identify sound terrible with each and every different, so it is not an choice I am individually considering that.

2016-09-03 09:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You must listen to music, talk about what you like, why you like it, what about it makes you do stuff you do, history behind the music. etc

Do your research about the college. What do you want to at U of C. What does the college do well in?? This should be really specific and refer to the college, and how it can help you achieve you goals in life.

The quote, is famous for many things, but you should write what it means to you. You can do literal, figurative, or philosophical meaning!!!

2006-12-08 17:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by champs2002 2 · 0 0

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