<p>hey, quick question. should application essays have titles?</p>
<p>at least i know Penn's essays dont need titles....</p>
<p>Even if you don't need one, if there's an option to put one and you can think of something halfway creative, it acts as a hook. If you can only think of "My Thoughts on Interpersonal Relationships" or something like that, and you don't need one, then by all means you might as well not. </p>
<p>However it might be worth it to take some time to come up with a decent title. People tend to put boring ones. If they ask about your favorite book and 5000 people send essays titled "My Favorite Book" and then you have a good title, you're going to stand out. My english teacher told us last year the best advice she has for college is to always put a title and always make it creative (within reason obviously), because professors of big classes get all these papers on the same subject and they all have the same lame title.</p>
<p>So like an essay on growing up in a smalle town in rural Arkansas could be titled "Rural Livin'" ?</p>
<p>Or it could be titled "Whatch where you step down on the farm"</p>
<p>good one halopeno2.. it really catches the eye..</p>
<p>I would say "Rural Livin'" is better than "Growing Up on a Farm"...but I think you could make it even more eye catching. Something like halopeno suggested. Something that would make you see the title and want to read the essay. Would people in rural Arkansas call it "rural living"? You could add some local language or terms, or slang, or whatever.</p>
<p>Other essay titles for living in Arkansas:</p>
<p>"Cow Tipping for Dummies"
"Where did I put my plow?"
"One man's cow poop is another man's fertalizer"
"Crop circles are just farmers' way of getting on the news"
"I don't live, I farm"</p>
<p>halopeno2.. ur a blood natural............
i love the last title......</p>