<p>Ok, so I have this beautful common app essay about how someone impacted my life. And its an anecdote sort of.</p>
<p>Do you think it would be too obvious if I made that my 217 Penn essay…because I really want them to know whats in my original common app essay. </p>
<p>Is thw 217 essay pretty much a freebie? Write whatever you want? In which case, I could send in my common app essay…</p>
<p>I’m very confused.</p>
<p>well they will get your common app essay w/ the common app so if you send it as your 217 essay also...theyll just get it twice....</p>
<p>but yeah i am in the same situation. i will prob just write a new essay and not even do 217. im thinking about doing the first exp. one.</p>
<p>I don't to take over your thread, but I'm stuck in a similar question. I have a fairly good, vivid essay about a community service experience working in a leprosy clinic which inspired my career goals.
I thought the prompt was pretty much open, but do you think this would work for the pg 217 essay?</p>
<p>Just don't do it if you're so confused about it. The Page 217 essay is optional anyway so I wouldn't worry about doing it if your Common Application essay is great.</p>
<p>WELL, im not doing common app. I have to do 217 or another one of those prompts.</p>
<p>oh well then they wouldnt know you were using the common app essay would they....?</p>
<p>Well if you're going to use the common app essay, I suggest you first try to make it seem like you're writing an autobiography, not just like an essay answering a prompt. You know, round out the edges and stuff.</p>
<p>But I think the P217 prompt tests your creativity. You don't want to be lazy doing this one, like recycling your common app essay. I picked this one because I knew this would offer a chance for them to see a different side of me, so I actually put a lot of thought into it and came up with a finished product.</p>
<p>well the 217 essay gives so much freedom. u can basically do any topic as long as it focuses on u and ur own accomplishments.</p>
<p>lol I'm not sure it really has to do with your accomplishments. It's creative, you can make things up. You can make up accomplishments. It's an autobiography, and we've all only lived 1/4 of our lives. It doesn't have to be mechanical in any sense.</p>
<p>I wrote the 217 essay for Penn, then used it as the 2nd essay for all the other colleges (since I wrote about something that really happened to me in the past).</p>