Same essay, different secondaries

[jj6vcb]

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How often do yall do this? And by this I mean use the same basic essay for more than 1 secondary, when the prompts are similar enough. After my first 10 or so secondaries, I feel like there isn't much new I can write about unless these prompts are just out of the blue

 

[dw2158]

well i used the same "here's what i've been up to since i finished college" blurb for a few schools, but i don't think that counts as an essay. for actual essays, i definitely copied and pasted sections but i didn't reuse entire essays.

 

[JJMrK]

well i used the same "here's what i've been up to since i finished college" blurb for a few schools, but i don't think that counts as an essay. for actual essays, i definitely copied and pasted sections but i didn't reuse entire essays.

Really? Even for the ones that were "tell us something" type of questions?

Personally, I did this whenever possible.

 

[dw2158]

Really? Even for the ones that were "tell us something" type of questions?

Personally, I did this whenever possible.

i mean, i'm not saying i didn't want to reuse essays, but the opportunity never really presented itself. i reused big chunks of things but always had to do a bit of tweaking to make it fit.

 

[JJMrK]

i mean, i'm not saying i didn't want to reuse essays, but the opportunity never really presented itself. i reused big chunks of things but always had to do a bit of tweaking to make it fit.

Yeah, same here I guess. There were 4 secondaries for which I used the exact same essay (just changed the school name). I then was able to use that essay on like 3 others, but either added to it or cut some out.

 

[Rach83]

I've re-used the same essay on a handful of applications. It's usually with the prompt "is there any additional info that might be helpful in evaluating you?" I hope I'm not rushing through these too quickly, but I seem to be flying through them and sending them off in a few hours.

 

[Mattabet]

Yeah, I definitely reused major chunks of essays. Copy/pasting an entire "challenges" essay sounds good in theory, but in practice I think I had to make modifications because of slightly different prompts or character/word limits.

Oh, and always, always triple check to make sure that you replaced all the 'Harvards' with 'Yales' or whatever the case may be. THAT would look very bad.

 

[secants]

Actually, I usually write different stuff for similar questions just because I think of something new each time to talk about.

 

[musicaldna]

Actually, I usually write different stuff for similar questions just because I think of something new each time to talk about.

Same here, even though I have the same stuff to write about, I still write it from scratch. Every time, I write about the same topic, my writing seems to improve...