<p>I have done the short essay and essay 2, but essay 1:</p>
<p>ALL APPLICANTS: The Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you</p>
<p>is stumping me. I have a really solid common app essay that I was thinking of submitting. It is the one about how a book or character affected me. What do you think? Do I need to be broader? Would it look bad, as they would probably know I took it from my common app?</p>
<p>I would think about it carefully before you use it. The best thing I can suggest is to have a bunch of people read the essay prompt for Georgetown and then read your essay and see if it properly answers the prompt.</p>
<p>That's probably a good idea, but isn't the Georgetown prompt so vague that it is basically asking for an essay that says something/anything about you? Which basically all college essays require.</p>
<p>I just submitted my grown app and I used my common app essay. I felt really confident about it, and the gtwon prompt seemed so broad. I added a little to make it more specific about myself, but I don't see any reason not to use it.</p>
<p>^agree but only because that's what my son did. Although the essay spoke to, more or less, a very specific part of who he is, it did seem to fit the prompt. However, since he failed to print off the application before he sent it (and it disappeared forever), I really have no evidence what he wrote!! :-)</p>
<p>I did the significant achievement one for the Common app and used that for Georgetown. The prompt was way too ambiguous, I'm willing to bet 90% of ppl used their common essay.</p>