Can I use this essay twice?

confused13
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:21:23 +0000

Common App: Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

I wrote about a significant experience… a trip to a foreign country which helped me learn about myself and stuff.

UC: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are? *

I want to use my experience essay from the Common App. But the second sentence of this says “quality or accomplishment” … not experience. My trip wasn’t exactly an accomplishment. The only thing I can say I’m “proud” about is maybe going halfway across the world without my parents. But still, it wasn’t exactly an accomplishment, more like a privilege.