Basically wrote about a personal trauma and how it led me towards medicine and research so I could prevent it from happening to anyone else.

Past essay Prompt So where is Waldo, really? –Inspired by Robin Ye, admitted student Class of 2016 My eyes beheld chaos: colorful cardboard pieces spread everywhere, and I had to arrange them into a beautiful image I had never seen before. I was stumped by the challenge, but at the same time I didn’t want to give up. My mother, who was sitting next to me, had never seen that kind of passion and energy on her six-year-old’s face...

Prompt 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. Oreos and milk. Peanut butter and jelly. Protons and electrons. Why exactly are such pairs so good together? Because together, they complete each other and their sum is always greater than each of their individual parts. I propose a similarly compatible pair:...

Prompt Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own. Favorite films • Jurassic Park (1993): I first watched Jurassic Park when I was six years old. I was fascinated by how the dinosaurs in the film were running amok and wanted to understand the cloning technique...