<p>Question asked in the topic, I haven't been able to find an answer for it.
Can you use the same essay for different colleges, or do they check?
I.E, for the Ivy League, can I send the same essay to all the 7 universities if I wanted? (since they use the similar Commons application)</p>
<p>I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t feel free to use the same essay for different colleges-- just make sure you just change specifics! (Harvard will be unhappy if your essay talks about how much you love MIT!)</p>
<p>A lot of schools encourage you to re-use essays or parts of essays because there is so much writing involved with applying to colleges.</p>
<p>if you’re talking about commonapp essay, yes
but if it’s the essay with topic given by the school itself, it’d depend on whether the schools you’re aplying have ‘somehow’ similar topics or not…</p>
<p>yes you can, but try your best to at least customize the beginning and end of your essays to a particular school.</p>