steva12

For example, several of the questions seem to have obvious answers. (How did you find out about Brown, tell us where you have lived.) Should I try to have a creative answer for these questions to try to stand out or should I just answer the question the obvious way and not overthink it?

franglish

While answers to those questions might be obvious to you, they're not necessarily obvious in the grand scheme of things. Ad committees are interested in their demographics. As far as being "creative" goes, you should know that in the many thousands of applications that these folks have read, they have seen everything. What you think is creative may have been done hundreds of times before, or more. So by then it doesn't look so creative anymore. You will stand out based on your record, in its various forms as it gets submitted to the school, not in your quirky or creative answers to straightforward questions. Believe me, they've seen it all already.

Aj1410

Its always good to be creative, but make sure its not something you're forcing yourself to do. It should be something thats in your own voice.