<p>“We prefer…that you avoid repeating the essay submitted for the Common Application.”</p>
<p>Does this mean that we aren’t allowed to use the same prompt, even if our response is completely different? I was planning on talking about “an intellectual experience” that is completely different from the “intellectual experience” I talked about in my main Common App essay. Is that not okay? Do we have to choose a different prompt?</p>
<p>Just don’t talk about the same experience. That’s it.</p>
<p>oh. ok. thanks.</p>
<p>I have a related question: I wrote an essay about a summer research internship…only to realize that I wrote my common app short answer about an extracurricular activity about the same experience. However, I really like my current Brown essay, and it gives a lot more information about how the experience affected me intellectually and personally (the commonapp essay was just a very bare-bones description of what I did…there wasn’t room for much else.) I just feel like if I were to hurriedly write another essay it wouldn’t be as good (I would write about something I did as a sophomore, which I feel would detract a bit.) Does anyone have advice?</p>
<p>I have the same question as m123456m. Can you go in depth about what was written for the common app short answer in the brown supplement?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t write about the same topic; just as they don’t want to hear recs, especially suppl. recs, saying the same things about you, you shouldn’t repeat information. I actually ran into the same problem as you two did with my brown essay and my short answer for the common app (but that’s cause I didn’t take the time to develop my short answer). I decided that I needed to take each essay in a different direction; and that’s what I did with the 5 responses (2 for common app, 3 for Brown); each essay showed a new side of me, which allowed the officer to understand me better - probably the most important part of college admissions essays; since that is it’s purpose right?</p>
<p>m123456m: you could just change your short answer for the commonapp if you really like your Brown essay. Even if you have already submitted your commonapp to other schools, you can save it as a different version and change your short answer just for Brown.</p>