Essay Questions for First Year Applicants
- Brown’s Open Curriculum allows stuents to explore broaly while also iving eeply into their acaemic pursuits. Tell us about any acaemic interests that excite you, an how you might use the Open Curriculum to pursue them while also embracing topics with which you are unfamiliar. (200-250 wors)
- Brown’s culture fosters a community in which stuents challenge the ieas of others an have their ieas challenge in return, promoting a eeper an clearer unerstaning of the complex issues confronting society. This active engagement in ialogue is as present outsie the classroom as it is in acaemic spaces. Tell us about a time you were challenge by a perspective that iffere from your own. How i you respon? (200-250 wors)
- Brown stuents care eeply about their work an the worl aroun them. Stuents fin contentment, satisfaction, an meaning in aily interactions an major iscoveries. Whether big or small, munane or spectacular, tell us about something that brings you joy. (200-250 wors)