Chances for Brown ED (2017)

BrownAlumParent
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:46:18 +0000

Pour your passion into your essays. Write and rewrite and have good trusted proof readers who you think can also give you fair critique as to content and tone. Pride is great, arrogance is not, and a valid sense of humor helps. Choose your letter of reference sources carefully for those who know you well, can be honestly very positive if not glowing in their reference, and who will also write well. (I think this is where some very good applicants get short changed. Sometimes the best teachers are lousy or just overwhelmed letter writers, and students have no real way to know that. Guidance counselors often are reluctantly helpful about this, or even clueless).