<p>Hear me out: The UCs have two prompts. I explained an experience/circumstance in #1 and now I want to tie examples from #1 into #2. The examples I'm using would be unclear if the officer has NOT read #1 first.</p>
<p>Is it ok to do this?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that will work out okay. Just make sure not to be repetitive between the two. You have an opportunity to show different aspects of yourself.</p>
<p>I wonder, if you need to link them, whether your second essay does offer them fresh, additional perspective about you.</p>
<p>don’t. they need to be separate.</p>
<p>I think it’s okay to allude to one of your essays in another essay, but it still needs to come across well if the allusion isn’t understood.</p>
<p>That seems a remarkably unwise thing to do. What you’re doing is giving yourself a 50/50 chance of having successful essays: they’ll succeed if the reader reads them in the order you need her to, and they’ll fail if she doesn’t.</p>
<p>And think about it . . . why should she (or he) read them “in order”? Maybe with half the app’s, she reads essay #1 first . . . and with the other half, reads essay #2 first. Do you really want to take that chance???</p>
<p>Ok thanks guys, I’ll steer clear of that then.</p>