<p>used the UC essay for the MIT prompt?</p>
<p>you mean vice versa?</p>
<p>lol, well I did my UC first, so yeah. Did you? Im thinking of it.</p>
<p>I applied MIT EA and wrote to the "world you come from" prompt. I was happily surprised when I found out that the UCs used the same prompt. So... yeah.. I used my (modified) MIT essay for the UC prompt.</p>
<p>yea why wouldn't anyone use the same-just change MIT to Berkeley (or vice versa) and it should be good.</p>
<p>My college counselor stressed that it was a trap and UC essays are supposed to be completely different than private college essays, sort of more recommendation-like than anecdotal. So eh I wrote mine in about 15 minutes. I think they actually turned out as good as my MIT essays :((</p>
<p>I'm not going to use my UC essay...I think I can do better...XD And I'll probably do the second prompt instead.</p>