Welcome to the Admission Essay Section of this website. Here you can read some of the wonderfully written essays your future classmates wrote in order to get into The Univeristy of Chicago. E-mail us at uchicago2006@hotmail.com to add your essay. Don't forget to add what essay question you responded too, and your name.

Short Statement #1: How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Your response should address with some particularity your own wishes and how the relate to Chicago.

Short Statement #2: Tell us about a few of your favorite books, poems authors, films, plays, music, 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.

1) I often think how lucky I was to have been an only child. I had enough business sense, even at an early age, to realize that had I had a number of brothers and sisters, I would have been lucky to get a share of a single family pony, instead of which I was, for a short time, the proud possessor of three. Sibling relationships are among the most complicated and meaningful in our lives, as any number of literary works (e.g., Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, J. D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey, Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother) attest. Compose an essay about your relationship with one or more of your siblings, or about other relationships between brothers and sisters. If you are an only child, you may wish to elaborate on the perspective of Ms. Kellett, telling us about how you felt to have been the only child... rich in ponies or love, bereft of the siblings you imagine would have enriched your life-or giving some other response that can only be your own.

2) Each new incarnation of "Survivor" makes us wonder about this thing called television and these creatures called human beings. But we want to set aside those big questions and ask you to play a bit for our shared enjoyment. Use your imagination to produce a version of "Chicago Survivor." Use as your location the lush Gothic campus, laboratories, libraries, gymnasia, and residence halls of a Major American University. Establish a setting, make your rules, identify some players (select from all of human history), and take us through a trial and its results. Profundity will be rewarded and true wit will certainly count in your favor, but too much intimate familiarity with the actual show may be a strike against you.

3) In a pivotal scene of a recent American film, a videographer -a dark and mysterious teen-aged character-records a plastic bag blowing in the wind. He ruminates on the elusive nature of truth and beauty, and suggests that beauty is everywhere-often in the most unlikely places and in the quirky details of things. What is something that you love because it reflects a kind of idiosyncratic beauty-the uneven features of a mutt you adopted at the pound, a drinking glass with an interesting flaw, the feather boa you found in the Wal-Mart parking lot- These things can reveal (or conceal) our identity; so describe something that tells us who you are (or aren't).

4) In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose an untraditional or uncommon question of your own. The answer to your question should display 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. Remember, this is about adventurous inquiry. Be sure that you actually use a question of your own.