<p>Is it ok if one of the paragraphs from my common app essay is also used in my Cornell supplemental essay? The rest of it is different, just this one of the 4 paragraphs is almost the same.</p>
<p>Common app essays should display what you as an individual value and hope to succeed in the future. It should state your goals.</p>
<p>Supplement essays should state how this college in particular will help you reach that goal. </p>
<p>Although the two coincide with one another, I would never copy + paste a paragraph directly into the latter one. That just shows laziness and is an uncreative approach. </p>
<p>Then again, this is just my own opinion and I really have no credentials to give one!</p>
<p>The supplement essay prompt was: How have your interests and related experiences influenced your selection of major? </p>
<p>How can I answer this with info about the specific college?</p>
<p>If the school that you’re applying to is Hotel, then you can write about why you are interested in hotel and restaurant administration. But then use information about the school to cater your interests. Like, “The fact that there is an actual hotel for students to train at will help give me first hand experience in the hospitality field.”</p>
<p>I’m in a similar predicament, and would like to hear more opinions on this question. </p>
<p>My common app is on a program that I built at my internship, and how creating it lead me to chose Computer Science as my major.</p>
<p>For my Cornell supplement, I opened with an anecdote about me working on that same program, and used it to segue into why I like Computer Science. </p>
<p>Is this a bad idea?</p>