Reusing application essays for scholarships??

victor5555
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:12:36 +0000

In my personal opinion, that is PERFECTLY OK. You’re not plagiarizing someone else’s work or anything. After all your narrating your own story again.

However, I strongly suggest that while tweaking, you look VERY closely at the new context in which you’re saying things (that is, make sure what you’re saying is relevant to the new topic.). The reason I say this is, sometimes there can be very subtle differences in the prompts. This has happened to me in the past when I was trying to recycle an essay for a local CCC scholarship, which needed a slightly different emphasis.

Also, make sure you’re not totally contradicting what you said in your original essay, because they have access to that one and might very well compare the two.