Another college's prompt?

2010Fighting
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:48:37 +0000

Do colleges get annoyed if they can tell that someone wrote the essay for another college’s prompt? I’m planning on submitting one of my Stanford essays (the roommate one to be exact) to Columbia after tweaking including school-specific information, but an astute officer can probably tell it was originally for stanford. But it works perfectly well for the Columbia “tell us about you” prompt: it really does tell them who I am! Would this be acceptable? (remember I WILL provide specifics for Columbia, but what would they go, “Ohh this wasn’t JUST for us, eh? Grrrrr.”)