• You can submit your Harvard perspective statement as one of the optional statements, though traditional diversity/inclusion language may go less far at Chicago than other top schools. Make sure that you come across as excited to engage with other viewpoints (particularly those outside traditional moderate progressive ideologies.)

Where would this go? They seem to want any optional essay to be one page? Also, none of the prompts seem to be very DS oriented. Maybe the "If there is something the Admissions Committee cannot learn about you from your application materials that would be helpful in the review of your file, please share in a brief addendum." ?

Probably just frustrated, but I feel like A is one of those answers where kevin would say "this doesn't actually help, because it's already a reasonable assumption." Like it seems totally obvious to me that A is a reasonable assumption bulit into the stimulus.

Thought a good example for hypothesis 3 would be being raised in a smoking household. Around smokers which my cause you to smoke, and second hand smoke may cause lung cancer. But then maybe it gets confusing if inhaling smoke causes lung cancer then.