<p>Is it a problem if my essays overlap slightly? One essay talks about writing for the local marsh, and the other essay is about writer's club.</p>
<p>There's one or two paragraphs that are similar (they talk about how I got into writing). Is this a problem? The Marsh essay is a mini autobiography, so I can't delete the paragraphs.</p>
<p>It’s not like one school knows what you said to the other ones in your essays to them. I don’t think there is a problem with using the same essay as long as you are not telling Yale how much you loved their palm-lined campus…</p>
<p>I’m talking about these two essays overlapping for the same school.</p>
<p>Ex: One would be my common app essay, and the other would be the school’s supplement essay.</p>