Another college's prompt?

Millancad
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:22:45 +0000

I think it’s okay if they’re really general essays. Like I wrote an essay about a topic of my choosing to describe myself to Georgetown, and then I reused that essay for Harvard’s optional and Yale’s required essay. The Harvard one was tweaked a bit, and then I shortened the tweaked one for Yale. But it was essentially on a topic of my own choosing, on the thing I wanted to tell colleges, so I thought that was okay.

I think it might not be prudent to reuse an essay topic that’s well-known. A college could probably tell that you were using UPenn’s essay from a mile away. But if the topic is “Tell us something about yourself that we cannot learn from elsewhere in your application,” reuse to your heart’s delight.