Common App and Supplemental same topic.

College Essays
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My common app is about a business I started this past summer. Would it be detrimental for my supplemental essays to also be about entrepreneurship and how specific colleges can foster my entrepreneurial interests?

I feel like my application is way too skewed towards entrepreneurship then (my number 1 EC is also entrepreneurship based)

Thanks

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My kids did a supplementals on a different topic from their common app. In one case the question on the supplemental was so direct that they used a different common app essay for that one school. It is a pain, but you only have so much real estate to show the college who you are and why they should admit you. Use it wisely.

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so did your kids have multiple common app essays? @intparent
Is this something you recommend for me?

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If you’re writing 2 essays for the same school, make them different.

You’re being given the opportunity to show two different sides of who you are. It would be a shame to waste one.

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Yes, that is what my kid did. She wrote a different common app esssy for the school where the supplemental question was pretty much asking for what she’d written in her common app essay used for all the other schools.