<p>Would it be a disadvantage to use my "Find x" essay for UChicago as my supplemental essay for harvard?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Probably a teensy bit, but not more than that. The Harvard admissions staff will certainly recognize the essay as responding to a Chicago prompt, but it won’t shock them that you are also applying there, nor will it shock them that you are using an essay you like for more than one school. If they like the essay, they won’t hold it against you.</p>
<p>Note that the same logic may not quite apply to colleges outside the magic HYPS circle. Harvard (or Yale, or Princeton) pretty much know that if they accept you, you are going to come, unless you go to one of the others. It won’t occur to anyone there that there is much chance you will turn them down to enroll at the University of Chicago. Other schools may not have the same confidence, and may see your using a Chicago essay as a vote for Chicago and against them. The ones that hyperventilate about their yield may hold it against you somewhat.</p>
<p>interesting. but yea its sooo true that if i somehow get in to harvard you wouldnt find me anywhere else come August 2011. </p>
<p>so i guess i’ll use my find x essay then for both schools. thanks</p>
<p>Well, as the prompt writer’s father, just wanted to let you know that he is going to Harvard-- he is taking a gap year (as lots of students from English schools do) and will start in Sept 2011–therefore I am pretty sure that Harvard admissions knows he wrote that prompt (they probably have a smile that he is coming to Harvard over UChi too) so I would doubt they wouldn’t recognize the prompt as a UChi prompt. That said, have fun with it where ever you send it-- he is quite tickled that people seem to respond to it. Best of luck.</p>