<p>Ok, well I recently bought a book with "successful college admissions essays." I was just skimming through the book and I came across an essay that was very similar to one I was already planning on writing. I was planning on talking about a troublesome student in a sunday school class that I taught. In the essay in the book, it was a kid who didn't want to learn latin in a given student's class. Additionally, in my potential essay and in the essay in the book, the student (and me) learn that the student has taken on doing extra work in his class when a parent comes in and thanks us. So, should I avoid using this essay..is there I chanced I'd get marked as a copier if I used it in a Yale supplement?</p>