Mentioning your name in an essay?

collegeman5
Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:33:30 +0000

In one of my essays (with a prompt that is open-ended), I find that mentioning my name allows me to develop the essay further, and I wish to include it (I don’t want to go in further detail about it because I don’t want to reveal the subject of my essay). However, I realized that including my name in the essay would give away my ethnicity, and obviously this plays a role in admissions. I suppose they may already know your ethnicity from other parts of the application, but is adding your name in the essay itself getting too personal?

I’m not exactly sure about etiquette in college admissions. I remember reading about one college that they assigned numbers to every applicant so admissions officers were not biased to select one applicant over another…

So, is it appropriate to include your name, or not?