• ✔ common app (due jan.2)
  • ✔ school codes, missing shit
  • ✔ puget sound supplement
    • ✔ 3 words that define me (harder than it sounds)
    • ✔ short essay on why i want to attend
  • ✔ chicago supplement
    • ✔ essays (2 / 3)
      • ✔ 1 / 1 & 2 ( 1-2 paragraphs)
        • ✔ 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 chicago.
        • ✔ 2. 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.
      • ✔ extended essay category [choose one] (1-2 pages)
        • 1. find x.
        • ✔ 2. dog and cat. coffee and tea. great gatsby and catcher in the rye. everyone knows there are two types of people in the world. what are they?
        • 3. salt, governments, beliefs, and celebrity couples are a few examples of things that can be dissolved. you've just been granted the power to dissolve anything: physical, metaphorical, abstract, concrete...you name it. what do you dissolve, and what solvent do you use?
        • 4. "honesty is the best policy, but honesty won't get your friend free birthday cake at the diner." - overheard in the city of chicago. does society require constant honesty? why is it (or why is it not) problematic to shift the truth in one's favor, even if the lie is seemingly harmless to others? if we can be "conveniently honest," what other virtues might we take more lightly?
        • 5. in the interest of adventurous inquiry, pose a question of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the university of chicago; take a little risk and have fun.
  • wait for rec.'s
• georgetown
  • ✔ interview (dec.22)
  • ✔ app (due jan.10)
    • essays (3)
      • ✔ short essay
        • ✔ discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved.
      • not short essays (2)
        • ✔ all applicants
          • ✔ please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you.
          • describe an experience you have had living or working in a diverse community. how might that experience help you to contribute to the life of a university community like georgetown's?
        • ✔ applicants for walsh school of foreign service
          • ✔ briefly discuss a current global issue, indicating why you consider it important and what you suggest should be done to deal with it. [research required = FML.]
• fax counselor rec. revision to common app schools
• mail school forms to georgetown

THAT'S IT.