UNC Supplemental essay question - Is this a bad idea?

Colleges & Universities University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>I chose to write on this prompt for UNC’s supplemental essay:</p>

<p>Tell us about a time when you failed. How did you react? What, if anything, did you learn?</p>

<p>The thing is, I’d like to write about the period of my education in France when I failed to be as hard working as I could have, and didn’t work to my fullest potential.
The only issue I have with writing about that, is that in my CommonApp essay I talk about diversity and experience I would bring to a college community, I talk about my experiences growing up in France, my education there, the social/cultural influences, the experiences I went through and how they changed my life.</p>

<p>Would it just be “too much” to ALSO talk about my french education in this supplemental essay?</p>

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<p>If you can think of something else, that would be preferable. Admissions wants to learn as much as they can about you, so your essays should all be about something different.</p>