Is it bad to write 2 similar essays for the same school?

College Essays
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<p>These are the prompts:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.</p></li>
<li><p>Choose one of the following:
a. The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?
b. Describe an experience of cultural difference or insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?</p></li>
</ol>

<p>I'm probably going to talk about being an American living overseas for most of my life for both of the essays. Is it bad to be writing about similar things in both essays? I feel like there would be a lot of pointless overlapping.</p>

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<p>A university wants to get to know as much about you as a person as they can before making a decision. If you write two similar essays and feel that you have said everything that you want them to know, then go ahead. But if you feel that key information about you has been left out, I would advise rethinking the two similar essays idea.</p>

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<p>Well yeah, obviously. Why bother writing the second essay if it’s practically going to be the same ****?</p>