Plagiarism on yourself?

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UBLI-EINSTEIN

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A friend told me his concerns about "plagiarisms on yourself", that means you copy and paste your secondary essays to schools that ask similar questions. For example, if he wrote a single diversity essay, and there are multiple schools asking for that. So he submit this essay to all these schools without really changing anything. Should medical school account this as a plagiarism on yourself?

I literally felt blunt being asked this question. I barely know anything about self-plagiarism, and I actually concern more about something else. For instance, different schools may ask for an adversity essay in distinctive ways, and thus you have to change your essay a little bit (really a little bit) so that seems you are specifically answering the question of that particular schools.

However, I don't know whether sending my own essay to multiple places will be thought as self-plagiarism.
 
It's not an academic paper.
You can rinse and repeat as much as you want. But be smart. Don't copy/paste that your background in an urban setting prepared you for "x" medical school in "x" urban city on a an application to West Virginia. Be sure to personalize your essays to the school, but you can absolutely repeat answers to similar questions.
 
Ahhhh yes, the season of neurotic applicants is upon us, the smell of anxiety is crisp.

Which definitely includes me.
 
Thank you guys above. I didn't worry too much about this because I did that anyway and I bet medical schools are aware that their questions are repeated all over the places. Just want to make sure.
 
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