Do people actually name-drop university programs/classes/professors in their supplemental essays?

tamagotchi
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:13:07 +0000

heavyweightcollege:

MIT kids want to tackle world problems.

Sure, but if a kid reads on the internet that MIT wants kids who want to tackle world problems, and therefore constructs an essay to try to make a claim that they want to tackle world problems, they are doing it wrong… and I doubt the essay would go over well with MIT admissions.