Can I use this essay twice?

College Essays
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<p>Common App: Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.</p>

<p>I wrote about a significant experience.. a trip to a foreign country which helped me learn about myself and stuff.</p>

<p>UC: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are? *</p>

<p>I want to use my experience essay from the Common App. But the second sentence of this says "quality or accomplishment" ... not experience. My trip wasn't exactly an accomplishment. The only thing I can say I'm "proud" about is maybe going halfway across the world without my parents. But still, it wasn't exactly an accomplishment, more like a privilege.</p>

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<p>i also want to use an essay about an experience, but am not sure if thats what they want. i dont know why they would mention experience in the first sentence and not want applicants to respond to that though.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I don't get it. Unless they're looking for experiences that are also accomplishments.
But still, they could have phrased it differently.</p>