Adversity essay covering same topic mentioned in PS?

[goldcoast260]

Hi everyone,

In my personal statement, use a paragraph to mention that my parent lost their job at the same time that a grandparent became ill and unable to run our family business right before I began undergrad (and how this ties into my path towards medicine). This caused my parents and I to work at the business daily to keep it running in order to afford my schooling throughout my entire time at college.

Besides this, however, I've been extremely fortunate and have not had anything nearly as unfavorable as this happen. My questions is if it would be okay to go into more detail about this occurrence and what I learned from it as part of my adversity essays even though I previously mentioned it in my personal statement. I attribute a great amount of my work ethic, leadership, and compassion to this experience so I would have a lot to write about, but also don't want to beat a dead horse since it's already stated.

Any advice would be appreciated!

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[mdphdNYC]

As long as there's not substantial overlap (i.e. essentially the same essay in both places) it should be fine if you mention it in more than one place. Your application should tell a story, having a continuous narrative between multiple essays can really help adcoms see the connections between the different aspects of your application