<p>Is a title required or optional?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s required. I didn’t put any titles on my common app essays.</p>
<p>Unless it’s mandatory or something I wouldn’t.</p>
<p>If it’s optional and you feel like you need to do it then you are doing it wrong and that essay needs to be rewritten.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. Another question: do colleges want the essays single or double spaced?</p>
<p>If you want and it usualy doesn’t matter what the spacing is, I’ve seen both.</p>
<p>single spaced. It’s more professional. You are never going to receive any sort of official communication for anyone double spaced and frankly, that’s for drafts only.</p>
<p>Somewhere on Duke’s website in a blog or faq, we read 1.5 spaces. And that was their stated preference. BUT it may have been for the Fuqua Business School applications. But maybe it would apply to the rest of the university too. Idk for sure, just trying to help. :/</p>