Is Religion Taboo?

wjb
Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:17:59 +0000

One of my son’s main college essays dealt with the role a particular area of religious study plays in his spiritual and intellectual life. He will attend Yale next year (he is on a gap-year program that focuses on that area of study). If your faith is really important to who you are and it can bring life to your application, I would not hesitate to use it as the subject of a college essay. What you need to avoid, however, is using your essay as a platform for delivering a sermon.