Yale Supplemental Essay

BengalTiger234
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:34:36 +0000

So, for the Yale essay where it’s like “tell us something we couldn’t find out from the rest of your application. Limit it to 500 words or less” I’m kind of stumped. So I was thinking, maybe I could just use one of my stanford supplemental essays and just copy and paste it into it? It’d either be the “intellectual vitality” essay, or a tweaked version of my “letter to a roommate” essay. It’s not like this is plagiarism or cheating or anything, since they’re still my own essays. I’m just wondering if these essays/topics “fit” into the Yale supplement well. Yale didn’t really give us any guidelines and basically said to write about whatever.
Has anyone else (perhaps any SCEAers?) done something similar? Did you get in?

So yeah, any thoughts?