<p>If anything, I would say that this person would be hurting himself/herself, because this person is demonstrating a lack of knowledge about the program to which he/she is applying. If this person wants to go to Wharton, this person should be applying to Wharton.</p>
<p>In a more blatant example, I knew one guy who a few years ago, on his MIT application, reused some of the same essays he used for Harvard, because that year, Harvard and MIT had some very similar essay questions. The problem was that he forgot to replace the word "Harvard" with "MIT" on some of the answers. So basically, on his MIT application, he mistakenly talked about how he really was impresssed with Harvard, etc. etc. He didn't get into MIT (or Harvard, for that matter).</p>