Can a friend an I write our essay on the same thing to the same school????

Applying to College
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<p>Our essays will be very, very different</p>

<p>I would write it on a male talent show/ spoof of Ms America (its called Mr West).</p>

<p>The school is Northwestern. He is writing his on how it was an unpopular decision for him to do mr west. I am writing mine on how I deviated from my original path(i was originally supposed to be in his act, but I then created my own) </p>

<p>What worries me is that we are probably the only 2 kids in our school applying to Northwestern. Only 3 kids from our school have ever applied. Now he has already written his, and i would write on a different topic if I thought it was unfair to him</p>

<p>Would writing completely diffferent essays on relatively the same topic hurt either of our chances of admission?</p>

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<p>I don't think it should. I've heard that you aren't compared against people from your own school directly, but more the region or the entire American country. </p>

<p>So long as it's distinctively different, it shouldn't matter if it's about the same topic.</p>

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<p>I talked to an adcom who said he read a dozan essays on the same small town football game one year. I think it's fine; it would be interesting to read the two.</p>