<p>I have a few good topics/essays that I already wrote and really like. I noticed that there are a lot of colleges that use similar questions Is it dangerous to use the same essay for different colleges? Especially for the ones that don't require the Common App, is it dangerous to submit the same Common App essay to them?</p>
<p>Unless the application specifically says you can’t use an essay you used for a different school, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s not like it’s plagiarism – you wrote them, you are the acknowledged author, you are using your own work under your own name, you presumably didn’t sell the rights to your essays to a publishing entity or anything. As long as you make sure you are addressing each prompt on its own terms, rather than shoehorning in something of dubious relevance just because you’d already written it, it’s fine.</p>