When does the admissions committee read a candidate’s RISD/PLME supplements?

dodgersmom
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:55:10 +0000

For candidates applying to Brown’s 8-year PLME program or the five-year Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, additional essays are required.

My question is when those essays are read. Are they considered in deciding the candidate’s initial qualification for admission to Brown, and can they influence that decision? Or are they set aside and not read at all until that initial (favorable) decision has been made?

Obviously, a candidate doesn’t want to repeat herself over and over in the multiple essays that have to be submitted for a dual degree program . . . but saving things for the PLME/RISD essays isn’t a good idea either, if the failure to include them in the primary supplements means the candidate never even gets to the PLME/RISD round.

So, what to do???