Brown Supplement -- Tell us where you lived

fireandrain
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 04:17:34 +0000

The prompt doesn’t ask anything about your world view. I’ve heard an admissions officer say that this is not a trick question - they honestly just want to know where you live. I’m sure they get some very mundane answers and some very creative ones. Brown accepts many students who live in boring affluent suburbia, so don’t think they will hold that against you. (FWIW, I don’t think this is a great question, but I’m not in admissions so my opinion doesn’t account for much.)

They are not asking you about your research, about your daydreams, about the movies you watch. They want to know where you actually live.