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 \nhey guys it's Chloe tan I'm currently a rising sophomore at new Chicago and I'm here to share with you my new Chicago uncommon why uchicago essay examples I've already filmed this video once but due to audio quality reasons hi guys it's great and I decided to refill it for you guys and so here I am again today today is awesome the last day of my Beijing internship if you guys are interested you Chicago doesn't start school until the 1st of October so technically for us it is still summer break I know for a lot of you you guys are either caught in between like the college move in orientation week time or school has already started for you guys or struggling with college ads honestly one of the worst experiences you can ever have in like high school life also one of the reasons why I started as channels because I got a lot of questions about my application about my essays and I decided to make this channel for you guys let's just get started the prompt I selected for my you Chicago uncommon essay was the late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham once set fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life I don't think you could do away with it it would be like doing away with civilization tell us about your armor and this is inspired by Adam burger class of 2020 the reason why I picked this prompt was because I had already written two personal statements and one of my personal statements became the common hat essay and I felt like I really liked my other essay and so even though I was Co totally willing to write under the UChicago in common essay just for you Chicago I really felt like I had put like the best of my little bit of my writing into that second personal statement so I really wanted to find a way to incorporate that into my application some of you may ask why didn't I pick the prompt where you know I get to write the prompt myself and the answer to that is honestly because I didn't know how to correctly phrase a prompt I felt like anything I came up with was like very trite very mundane and it made my essay more importantly seem mundane for example if I ask you what your favorite color is and you say blue that's much more mundane if I asked you like what's your vision of the world in like 10 years and you say blue right that's immediately just like a little bit more interesting it sparks a little bit more of your interest and so I really want it that kind of feeling and I felt like my assay could fit that so moving on to how I decide about what I want to write about for my essay I went through a lot of different brainstorming processes for this like personal statement-and I ended up picking something that would demonstrate another side of myself so my big PS like my like main PS which I will link in this video as well was about me being really inquisitive and sometimes being a little bit like insensitive and how I kind of like learned from that my Y essay which is found earlier on my channel focus more about like my love for you Chicago and my unique perspective through pretending to be a gargoyle and this one which is my uncommon supplement I wanted to demonstrate more my writing skills and my ability to craft you very intricate and beautiful images with just a couple words so with that in mind let's just go into reading a bit of my essay analyzing a bit of it and so on and so forth pick up a pen gently for the ink that flows within the nib is your weapon caress the patents protective shell of steel or tungsten carbide for you must feel the strength of the armor that protects its creative we always say that the pen is mightier than the sword but when we mean is that the creations expressed with ink are mightier than any man-made weapon yet the body of the pen will be holded with right with in case ink with they are a normal suit of armor that protects the wearer with it they define the exterior used to create they are meant to be used so you guys probably","cbCair8wweeOHxPl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair8wweeOHxPl","pdf",52292,"English","# Prompt and motivation\n## Prompt choice and inspiration\n## Planning and essay angle\n# Essay reading and stylistic analysis\n## Added paragraphs and theme connection\n## Writing style and metaphor strategy","[{\"question\":\"Why did the author choose the UChicago Uncommon Essay prompt about “armor”?\",\"answer\":\"The author felt it matched their existing writing strengths and wanted a prompt that would allow more interesting, engaging phrasing than one based on a self-created question. 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