<p>I'd like to write my essay based on the prompt about "a place or environment where you're perfectly content" and it would be about an extracurricular activity that I have dedicated a lot of time to during high school. However, many colleges ask to elaborate on an extracurricular activity in their supplementary essays and I think that talking about the same activity that I talked about in my common app essay would probably not be a very good idea. </p>
<p>What do you think I should do? Change my common app essay topic or talk about the same activity in the supplementary essays?</p>
<p>I say dont. Admission officers say they dont want ur essay to reiterate another part of ur application. As in, they know what ecs u do, they dont want an essay on it.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a good idea because in a way you’re wasting an opportunity to present another side of yourself. Why do in two essays what you can do in one?</p>
<p>Absolutely do not talk about the same activity in 2 essays/sections. In these cases, I’d pick another essay for the CA, since they do give you a 2nd place to talk about the EC. You can always pick another EC to mention as well. But then you have 2 EC essays which isn’t all that diverse.</p>
<p>I once asked the same question to a very experienced counselor and he said you could write about EC if you have no other choices or that the activity really influenced and changed you. I think maybe you should think about other options cuz normally if yoou write about your EC it suggests that you have no other things to present…kinda like that.</p>