<p>Would you use your essay from Common App for your brown essay?</p>
<p>if you like it...why not?</p>
<p>I did it.</p>
<p>Brown's essay has an open-ended topic, and you can, if I am not mistaken, select to do a topic of your choice for the Common App essay. So yes, you could do that.</p>
<p>My daughter did. As daveb said, on the common app the last choice is Topic of Your choice. She re-used that for her brown personal statement.</p>
<p>My D did. It is perfectly OK, as long as you are not using a specific essay topic from one school/application to apply to another. As long as you are writing an open-ended topic, you can submit it anywhere.</p>
<p>Good! It will save a lot time!</p>
<p>For Brown, I submitted an essay that was almost 800 words. I did pare it down to a version that's about 500 words... which one should I do for the Common App? Shall I go for conciseness, or slightly more personal-ness?</p>
<p>it says that they want to tell them something that will give them "a sense of who you are, how you think, and what issues and ideas interest you most" . What if my essay does not address the issues and ideas that interest me most?</p>
<p>then you're not following instructions? just try to squeeze that stuff in there if you can.</p>
<p>I had the same problemas you rhwsdnp, i used my common app essay. mine didnt address all three of those areas either but i hope they like it</p>