Racist joke in essay????

woogzmama
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:10:53 +0000

I will chime in only to say that - should the OP get rejected from some of the colleges she applied to - she will never know whether the questionable judgment of incorporating the joke into her essay tilted the scale against her. Perhaps some readers would be charmed, but others are likelier to have been puzzled than offended. If the OP presented the quote verbatim, furthermore, I think she should be more concerned about errors in grammar, syntax, and capitalization. Those can and will kill an application for college just as they can kill a job application. Anyone who reads it will automatically infer that you didn’t care enough to review the essay and run it by someone else (e.g. parent, teacher, adviser, et al) before submitting. I have occasionally advised young students on this site to craft their posts more carefully as a matter of practice.