Footnotes for personal statement

<p>Hi!</p>

<p>If I am required to write an additional essay that is intellectual in nature, do I need to include footnotes to back up statistics? I think it will be rather weird for a personal essay to be filled with footnotes but I also feel that it is wrong to include statistics without any reference.</p>

<p>Help, anyone?</p>

<p>Thanks a lot x</p>