Mention controversial interest in essay - or sanitize it?

twoinanddone
Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:54:28 +0000

What are you hoping to convey by writing an essay about this subject? Your admissions team may not know anything about it unless the school admits by departments (say engineering or music). For the general Arts and Science admissions, the review team may consist of professional AOs and maybe some ‘readers’ who can be from any discipline. They are interested in whether you can write an essay to convey an idea. Any idea. Is the sentence structure good? Punctuation? Is the theme clear? Many just want to be entertained and find a little originality.

You aren’t defending a thesis here. Why go controversial?