<p>I know there was a thread on this earlier, but I can't find it.</p>
<p>So anyway, I have this lovely Princeton essay written. Thanks to the quotation at the top, it screams that it was written for Princeton.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if I should strip the quote off the top (the essay still makes perfect sense without it) so it doesn't seem like I don't care about my Harvard supplement or didn't bother to write an essay just for them.</p>
<p>IMO you could. The colleges don’t know what you submitted to the other colleges.</p>
<p>There’s no reason that you shouldn’t - if it’s a lovely essay for Princeton no doubt it will be warmly received by Harvard as well.</p>
<p>You can pretty much recycle essays for all colleges unless you are writing specific wacky essays for somewhere like Chicago or MIT, because there’s no way to determine if it was originally written for elsewhere (unless you make some Princeton specific references in your essay, in which case you might want to replace them with Harvard specific references). Just get rid of the quote and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Funny - son recycled an essay he used successsfully at a number of schools (HYPS) for Chicago and got a written note about how great it was on his admit note - along with a scholarship offer. And Chicago is supposed to be so quirky about their quirky essay prompts! He found with just a bit of tweaking it worked out very well. You’re a busy senior. Use what you have already honed to perfection.</p>
<p>I recycled a Harvard essay for Juilliard. "nuff said 
If done well, I think the essay comes out better because you’re forced to revise, and you know the concept so thoroughly. You probably shouldn’t keep the quote though :)</p>
<p>D wrote nothing new for Harvard. She only had two main essays that were repeated unless they did not fit the prompt (such as the why xxxx school).</p>
<p>I’m recycling my Chicago essay for HYP. (I chose q.5 for the Chicago one, where I had to come up with my own question) As long as you like it enough, might as well use it. </p>
<p>As for the quote at the top, was it one that Princeton gave? Or did you choose the question where you pick your own quote? If it’s your own IMO you should leave it in.</p>
<p>i practically used the same essays for alot of schools…(i’m kinda lazy i know)
but if it fits and it’s good then i think it’s totally ok
it’s not like the schools actually anaylize if u wrote the essay specially for them</p>
<p>I recycled one of my essays several times, with minor tweaking. If you take off the quote you’ll probably be fine.</p>
<p>I did this, except I wrote the Harvard essay first, and then added in a relevant quote at the top for my Princeton essay. I got into both. Just remember that the exact format doesn’t matter to the adcom as much as what you have to say in your essay.</p>
<p>I wrote my supplement essay for Yale first, then I kind of copped out and did the “talk about a person who inspires you” prompt for Princeton which required no quote. I thought it was kind of cool because it didn’t really fit the prompt, so it probably seemed more creative - but it wasn’t mwuahahah! I win.</p>
<p>what if it’s a specific prompt, like Brown’s “What Don’t You Know?” prompt? I wrote my “What Don’t You Know?” essay, and I really like it…but won’t Harvard know that Brown has that essay question? Or Penn’s “pg. 217” prompt? Isn’t that kind of obvious?</p>