I am applying to a school and the supplement question is the exact same as the question I used for my college essay, what should I do?
Take out your scratch notes and look at the areas that made you think “if only I had a bigger word count,” but you could not include in the finished essay. What there was a brilliant flash of something which had come to you that you had to abandon? Go with that.
Whatever you do, do not believe yourself to be wedded to the exploration of the topic in the manner that you have already undertaken. Breathe deeply, read the prompt backward, walk your room for 5 minutes, jump up and down, and let yourself be open to looking at from a new angle.
Haven’t you read a text in English class at this time in your academic career at least twice (or three times), and been asked to analyze it in completely different ways? When that has happened, and your first response has been, “Aww, I’ve already read that,” and then the assignment asks you to explore something like the author’s use of the comma, or the relationship of the main character to the change of seasons, that made you wake up, right? Made you stretch.
Stretch.
^ Lol, so profound.
Use it as the supplement and come up with a new main essay.
But do it today!! It’s December already!!
Not sure what that flowery post is all about, but come up with a new topic for one or the other, at least for that school.
maybe it’s better to write a new essay? 8-> obviously, with a different topic. and you could use some parts of your first essay to answer the supplementary question.
in another situation, you will look silly, providing the similar points in the essay and in your answer.