Is this "hook" worth mentioning and if so, how do we do it?

MD_Mom_1
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:30:31 +0000

Our last name is the same as a street by the University of Chicago and another street is Maryland. My daughter twisted both of those into her essay–more for humor than for anything else. I think that you can put all kinds of things in essays. What you want to avoid is acting like it makes a difference in the admissions process.