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Until the current freshman class, applicants used what Chicago called the Uncommon Application, which included an array of quirky and thoughtful essay prompts, many of which came from current students.
"I love the Uncommon Application," Hirsch said.
Although the university vowed to retain its essays in a required supplement, the demise of the "Uncommon Application" sparked a student protest.
Just before these interviews, there had been a wave of campus activism: Chicago was considering replacing its idiosyncratic Uncommon Application in favor of the so-called Common Application used by many top-tier schools.
One thing that the U.S. News & World Report rankings measure, he explained, is "selectivity," and the Uncommon Application (goes the theory) kills Chicago's selectivity rate by keeping more people from applying.
The eccentric essay questions of the University of Chicago's "uncommon application" were designed to reveal the emerging self, and to provide "more interesting reading for us during the long winter months," says Theodore A. O'Neill, who oversees their composition and selection.
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