About College Essays

youngmink
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:11:51 +0000

I am applying to numerous schools, and I am overwhelmed by the number of essays to write. I have finished a couple for schools with deadlines around the end of this month and early December. I still have many more to write, and I noticed that some of the prompts aren’t that different from each other.

Am I able to use an essay that I wrote for a school to apply to another one? If not, am I able to tweak it a little so that I won’t have to start anew? Will schools be able to detect the minor differences and penalize me for that?