University of Chicago

What are UChicago’s supplemental essay prompts?

Prompt #1

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 UChicago.

Prompt #2

Extended Essay. Required; choose one.

Essay Option 1: In a world where inter-species telepathic communication exists, which species would you choose to have a conversation with, and what would you want to learn from them?

Essay Option 2: If you could uninvent one thing, what would it be, and what would unravel as a result?

Essay Option 3: Explore a contronym: a role, identity, or experience in your life that has contained its own opposite.

Essay Option 4: What is one object the world is phasing out that you think we cannot afford to lose, and why?

Essay Option 5: Choose an existing brand, company, or institution and propose an unexpected but strangely logical new product or service for them to launch.

Essay Option 6: Choose your favorite spurious correlation and make the case for why it might actually reveal a deeper, causative truth.

Essay Option 7: Choose one of UChicago’s past prompts or create a question of your own. Be original, creative, thought provoking, and have fun.