UChicago: Respond to Question 1 - and, if you choose, Question 2 - by writing a paragraph or two for each question. Then choose one of the six extended essay options, indicate your choice, and write a one- or two-page response.
This is your chance to play, analyze (don`t agonize), create, compose - let us hear the result of your thinking about something that interests you, in a voice that is your own.
Question 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. (one or two paragraph)

269-word version
Watching the 2012 London Olympics in excitement, I stumbled upon another sensation, not of mine but of the athletes’, yet no less intense and extreme than that of mine... I am certain that UChicago, with especially its Common Core program that encourages communal learning from all of its students...is the ideal place to expand my curiosity in biology...

Columbia: Please tell us what you find most appealing about Columbia and why. (1500 characters)

246-word version
Watching the 2012 London Olympics in excitement, I stumbled upon another sensation, not of mine but of the athletes’, yet no less intense and extreme than that of mine... I am certain that Columbia College, with especially its Core Curriculum that encourages communal learning from all of its students...is the ideal place to expand my curiosity in biology...

BU: This section of the application gives you an opportunity to present yourself in a way that grades and test scores cannot. The Board of Admissions uses your essay to determine your ability to organize thoughts and express yourself clearly. Accordingly, we ask that you prepare this work entirely on your own.
Essay 1: In no more than 250 words, please tell us why BU is a good fit for you and what specifically has led you to apply for admission? (2400 characters)

244-word version
...I am certain that Boston University, with its “highly integrative department” in biology and its encouragement of “undergraduates to participate in various research” opportunities both during the academic year as well as the summer, is the ideal place to expand my study in the subject as I am interested in various fields of biology from pathology to neurobiology to DNA science...