Copying personal statement into secondaries

[jhanago]

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So one of my secondaries asks EXACTLY what my personal statement answers. Do you think I would be very wrong to copy my personal statement into the secondary essay word for word since its the exact answer/

 

[jeffity]

So one of my secondaries asks EXACTLY what my personal statement answers. Do you think I would be very wrong to copy my personal statement into the secondary essay word for word since its the exact answer/

It's not wrong top copy and paste it. But it's not smart. They have your personal statement already. They don't need to read anything form it a second time. Get creative. At a minimum, rewrite whatever it is that you wrote in the statement that answers their question.

 

[setupben]

Just a heads up, there is a board of people that will look at all these papers.

Real people will sit around a table and someone is going to say, "Looks like he copied and pasted his personal statement." Then you will be compared to the other applicants, if they also copied then you are fine, but if they didn't....

It sounds pretty risky to me.

 

[dantemac]

I would NOT do this. A committee would notice that it is copied.