<p>something like "a damn fine memory", is that alright?</p>
<p>i mean comon, we're not little kids anymore..</p>
<p>I almost did in a UPenn essay, then changed it.</p>
<p>I should have kept it. hahahah.</p>
<p>Why ask us? The admissions person who ends up reading your essay is the one whose opinion matters. Since you don't know if he or she will or will not care about the use of damn, it's best not to use it. In my opinion, the phrase is too colloquial to use in an admissions essay anyway.</p>
<p>I said "$#!+" and "damn" and probably a few other choice words in a school-sponsored (high school) scholarship essay and won. Of course, it was a personal narrative essay and I chose to write about a particularly grueling cross country practice. </p>
<p>But in your case, it could matter, it might not.</p>
<p>I talked about fatal striking, a man killing another man with his bare hands, fraternicide, war, and metaphorical nudity in my essay.</p>
<p>Why not?</p>
<p>Don't do it.</p>
<p>just don't.
it just doesn't seem like a good idea for an admissions essay.</p>
<p>One of my friends blalantly cursed in his and he got in early to CMU.</p>
<p>You're fine.</p>