eminent wrote:
To be honest, I interpret Kellogg essay #3 to be extremely similar to Tuck's essay #4
4. Tuck seeks candidates of various backgrounds who can bring new perspectives to our community. How will your unique personal history, values, and/or life experiences contribute to the culture at Tuck?
It seems like the same material would work itself into either one of these.
....which is pretty much the same as one of the questions from the Kellogg application last year. Essentially, what are you bringing that is unique and will add to the overall experience of your classmates.
Personally, I really don't think it matters if you are adding new information or not, though my personal opinion is that you would be silly not to try and highlight something new in this essay. You only get so many chances to sell your story, why on earth would you want to spend one of those rehashing something you already went into detail about in another essay? . The only reason they talk about the admissions committee at all is to make the point of...."what about you is something that would cause a current student to say 'wow that's cool, I'd like to meet and get to know this person' "
For what its worth, I wrote about playing division one lacrosse for four years in college and how that experience of team over self, etc would allow me to be a team player in groups and stuff. Pretty cheesy I know, but apparently it was good enough. The only other place that playing sports in college came up in my application was one little blurb in my CV.