<p>I just think titles on any work you do is absolutely necessary. It makes your work look more proffessional while also providing an insight to your paper. You could also have a funny, or pun title and be a little quirky.</p>
<p>Just some advice.</p>
<p>You mean even the essays from those Chicago prompts should have a title?</p>
<p>Yes.........</p>
<p>Why do we need to?</p>
<p>So if I wrote an essay somehow inspired by Mustard.. I should still make a title for it?</p>
<p>Mustard Strikes Back!</p>
<p>Yes, I think that added touch will only help you, as long as it's not overly obvious. Be clever and inventive with your title because that will be the first thing your reader sees, and it will help make a good impression on the essay.</p>
<p>How many people actually do this...</p>
<p>I doubt anyone does</p>
<p>My S did not for Chicago or his U.California apps, but did add titles to his Common App essays for other schools. I don't think it's a big deal, maybe a nice added touch if they are witty or something.</p>
<p>I didn't have titles for any of mine, and I was accepted at Chicago and Umichigan. Content always trumps title.</p>
<p>Bah, I just meant that it is a nice added touch, and not the decider of acceptance.</p>
<p>But maybe I'm an overmeticulous nerd when I write (this is true, I spend hours on any in-depth paper that I write)</p>
<p>So do as you like :)</p>
<p>My dean told us that titles are really not necessary, especially since they generally turn out to be pretty cheesy and dumb</p>
<p>The only title that I ever feel made a difference in my paper was one I came up with for a quirky essay about Thoreau: There's a Chanticleer in My Closet. Yeah. Right.</p>