Italics in essays

[brianmartin]

Hey, random question at 2am 🙂

Are you allowed to use italics in personal statement or secondary essays? I wonder because I am a big user of italics!

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[j-weezy]

Hey, random question at 2am 🙂

Are you allowed to use italics in personal statement or secondary essays? I wonder because I am a big user of italics!

I don't think the formatting allows for italics in most, if not all, of the online essay submission forms - but I may be wrong...

Perhaps there's another way to achieve the same emphasis without the use of italics?

 

[ndychase]

Most sec app don't allow you to italicize, although I was able to for Georgetown. If you can italicize, I'd go for it...but probably no more than one per app! ;-).

 

[146233]

Most sec app don't allow you to italicize, although I was able to for Georgetown. If you can italicize, I'd go for it...but probably no more than one per app! ;-).

👍 It's fine if you can do it, but try to keep it to a minimum.

 

[notdeadyet]

Are you allowed to use italics in personal statement or secondary essays? I wonder because I am a big user of italics!

Your primary will not allow you to italicize. Most secondaries will not. Even if they let you, not doing so is a good idea. Italicizing is a shortcut for emphasis that can be accomplished through better writing. Don't do it. There's a reason you don't see it used much in professional writing aside from headering and genus names.

 

[LikeClockWork]

If it were <I>me</I> I'd be worried that my essay would end up looking like some formatting <B>nightmare</B> through some computer error.