<p>If I submitted the Princeton prompt "Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way" to Harvard, would the adcoms care? Some of the essay books I've read talk about how adcoms know the essay prompts of peer colleges.</p>
<p>But it’s a common app essay prompt… so it didn’t necessarily come from princeton.</p>
<p>Sorry, I forgot to write that I would be submitting this for the Harvard “additional essay.” Yeah, it’s a common app prompt, but I’m not using it for my common app essay.</p>
<p>I don’t think so. There are some people who have applied to both Harvard and Princeton and were accepted at both. Obviously, they don’t really care about which other schools you apply to.</p>
<p>Harvard uniquely doesn’t care where else you are applying. They know you are applying SOMEWHERE else, and they would assume your other applications likely include one or more of Yale, Princeton, Stanford, or MIT. They would also assume, based on a great deal of experience, that if they accept you chances are you will enroll, no matter where else you are accepted. So whereas Tufts or WashU might consign you to waitlist purgatory if you let them know you did your best work on your Princeton essay, Harvard will just give an institutional yawn and proceed to reject you (or not) for other reasons.</p>
<p>Lol, thanks for the responses.</p>
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<p>I loled at the personification.</p>
<p>I submitted my Princeton-specific supplementary essay to three other places.</p>
<p>Honestly, it doesn’t matter.</p>