<p>I ask this because I'm applying to twenty colleges [I'm an international applicant and so I know my chances for getting in aren't huge, so I'm applying to lots of places]. Some of the supplement questions are similar and some are really the same. I made a list of essays I need to write now and it's spanned over quite a few pages, and I'm worried about managing to write about 30 good essays.
How do you guys feel about reusing your essays for different supplements, maybe with minor changes?</p>
<p>Of course it's alright...and in your case it would probably suggested. What the colleges get, they will see. They're not going to know that you reused an essay. All they're going to see is if its good/unique or not. There' definitely no need to write like 30 different essays. If the colleges have similar prompts (which most do) then mke minor changes if needed and submit.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's probably what I'm going to do, as much as possible anyway. I was just wondering what other people's opinions on this are :).</p>
<p>its okay just make sure you don't write Harvard in your Yale essay...I know someone who did that the AdComs must have been quite annoyed...</p>
<p>Yeah, it's perfectly fine. Just like Meadow suggested, though, make sure you change the college names around. I almost submitted an essay to Bowdoin that said "Princeton" all over it.</p>