<p>I've finished my Short Answer for the Common App for a while now, and I wrote about my passion for tennis. </p>
<p>Recently, I finished a non-Common App application and I really liked the essay I wrote (using a metaphor for tennis), and I was thinking of using the idea of this essay as my Common App essay. </p>
<p>I'm worried that the slight repetition in writing subjects (tennis for the Short Answer and then again slightly for the Essay) would hurt me. Of course, I can pick another significant EC for my SA, but it's so much easier to keep what I have, and harder to write one about another.</p>