<p>Hello,
I'm applying to University of Virginia as a transfer student for the spring semester of 2012. I'm responding to the essay promt "What issue of local, national, or international significance concerns you? Why?"</p>
<p>I'm planning on writing about how I became aware of the significance of an issue after researching it and plan to explain what I found in my research, etc.</p>
<p>Would it be appropriate to put citations as footnotes or the like? I couldn't rightly think of how I could give an in-depth discussion of why anything significant concerns me without using citations . . . . . but using sources for an admissions essay seems inappropriate and square. What do you guys think?</p>