<p>I am applying for my town scholarship and the essay topic is almost similar to my common app essay. would I be able to just reuse my common app essay and modify essay to fit the scholarship topic better? or would they know that its the same essay?</p>
<p>They won’t know because they don’t have access to your common but the more important question is, are they expecting you to write a completely new essay for them? If they are, then you should do that. If they aren’t, then you can modify your common app essay. You wrote your CA essay, it’s not plagiarism.</p>
<p>it doesn’t specify…it just has a prompt on the 4th page which is the essay prompt page of the scholarship form.</p>
<p>I’d say you can use your CA, tailor it to the scholarship.</p>