 Are you applying to Brown? In the application you'll have three supplements you'll need to write in the questions section. By the end of this video I will show you how to break down and tackle each one. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best college essay advice, subscribe, and hit the bell. Away! The Brown supplements are all over the place from Hawaii us to activity but stick around by the end of this video I will share with you the top thematic points and content details you'll want to ace for these supplements. Hi I'm Dr. Josie with Write Your Acceptance with hundreds of students in college or graduates by now. I know what they're looking for. Stick around. It's your turn. Essay one is the why us. It's a short why Brown and so this is the prompt. I'll read it for you. Brown's open curriculum allows students to explore broadly while also diving deeply into their academic pursuits. Tell us about an academic interest that excites you and how you might use the open curriculum to pursue it. So it's 250 words and this you're going to blend a little bit about your intellectual passions. So photography, public policy, education, philosophy, what have you kind of started to nurture as an intellectual interest whether within or beyond a classroom and then connect that with some of the resources they had on campus. Then you can pick one or two professors or a course that's of interest. Name the course. You can talk about a research initiative. For more information on what you can add definitely check out this video which is where I break down the why us step by step. Essay two and I'll read it to you. At Brown you will learn as much from your peers outside the classroom as in academic spaces. How will you contribute to the Brown community? I recommend students look at how they will enrich the community of Brown by how they have kind of added to other communities. So you can mention a community type supplement which I talk about in another video more in detail but basically with some light reflection on how you think diversity enriches learning. I think that's kind of a nice takeaway that you want to kind of frame at the end of the supplement. An example from a former student a successful supplement was basically they narrated a family dinner where kind of a political disagreement got a little out of hand. They don't get into the politics but they do get into their kind of Diplo skills and how they jumped in as peacemaker and helped to really bring to the table the kind of warring parties and to agree to disagree right but then throughout they sprinkle in family recipes or kind of some language or some customs or traditions that people were engaged in before or after the the little kind of disagreement ensued. Are you starting your supplements now but you don't know where to get started really comment below I'd love to help your brainstorm. Prompt three tell us about a place or community you call home and how has it shaped your perspective 250 words by the way if you're applying to the University of Michigan as well you can use their community one here or vice versa and this is one that you can definitely adapt to multiple supplements an extracurricular what you call home kind of identity community driven supplement and so a former student has written about another successful supplement has written about a local poetry kind of studio that she would go to at first she would just sit in the back kind of slink back and just listen to other people sipping her kind of chai latte and just really really definitely afraid to even go up much less right poetry to share with you know people in the room but gradually the supplement goes into how she does perform and so she starts the essay with a modest group of eyeballs staring and snapping their fingers at me six months ago this would have been a nightmare but now and then she goes into how she's grown to gain the confidence and really call this place home if you want more guidance download below my free college essay template it'll give you kind of how to structure that main essay but then also how to bring in storytelling techniques and diversity for your supplements so really kind of maximize your candidacy on all writing fronts if you found this video helpful give us a like comment brown below and share with college brown friends i'd really appreciate it thank you so much