 What's up YouTube? Are you applying to Brown? If you are, stick around and I have do's and don'ts for your supplements. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best college essay in Intel. Definitely subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss a video. So the admissions officers at Brown are looking for students who are interested in community involvement, keen on making an impact and intellectually curious. They want to explore different aspects of the academic and social dimension of Brown and I'm going to share your do's and don'ts for your supplements. They're definitely kind of looking for a very specific type of student so we will get into that now. Thank you for joining me on my channel. My name is Dr. Josie. This is Write Your Acceptance and I have taught writing as a faculty member at a university for 13 years now and I've been lucky to be able to work with students applying and getting in and kind of seeing the type of writing you should be doing there too. So stick around. So the Brown supplemental essays offer three required prompts and if you are applying to RISD or the program of liberal medical education, definitely stick around because I'll talk a little bit about it later but if you are just straight up applying to Brown, you have three essays that you want to get into. The first is actually my favorite and sometimes the one that trips up students. That prompt is Brown's open curriculum allows students to explore broadly while also diving deeply into their academic pursuits. Tell us about an academic interest or interest that excites you and how you might use the open curriculum to pursue it. This is 250 words. You don't have a ton of time but two kind of nice size paragraphs you can definitely do. And so this is all about being multidisciplinary in thought and interest and passion. So yes, you want to go for a specific major perhaps but you want to show kind of varied interests as well. So you want to kind of really show that you can kind of come in and take charge of your education. That is what essentially the open curriculum is about. There are two phrases that I kind of linger on that I really like that they have on the website that I want you guys to use as like your kind of compass for this essay. Learn how to learn and learn how to solve. It's not as important to teach you something as to teach you how to learn something, right? So that's a really important quote. And then another one, students are the architects of their own learning. So there's a lot of autonomy in a lot of direction that the students have through the open curriculum. So you want to make sure that you not only show an excitement for that, but that you can show them how you are architecting your own education into paragraphs, right? So let's go back to the actual prompt. You want to show multidisciplinary or co-curricular interests and you want to show that you have already started in that path in some way. So let's say that you did an independent study project on an economic principle and perhaps you want a major or minor in economics. Look at their concentrations. Look at the courses that they're offering in one or two disciplines. So mention as specific as possible a couple of avenues of interest that you would like to pursue. Prom too. 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? So this is your typical extracurricular activity type essay. You can pretty much recycle this with a few other schools that have that type of what has been the most meaningful extracurricular activity. You really want to kind of dial in, double down on community, on building community, on bringing people together, on fostering intellectual and social interests. So as the typical extracurricular activity essay, the only kind of clincher is that you want to kind of spin it back to how you will contribute to the Brown community, right? That is the essence of what the question is asking. So if you've taken karate classes, if you have taken tango lessons, scuba diving, all former students, by the way, that have applied to Brown, you can kind of start with a story about a memorable experience, you taking a lesson, then you can kind of zoom out and reflect on that community. What has that kind of community taught you? Why has it been kind of of interest? And then you want to spend the last third or so on connecting that to a potential student organization on the campus at Brown, right? So like, how will you contribute to the community in that way? I see other students do this through identity. If you are a minority in any way, if you speak multiple languages, I see this essay sometimes in that way. What I would do is be very specific toward the end on how you can kind of connect back to the Brown community. Is there a student organization? Is there a class? Is there a research or study abroad opportunity? Something that kind of shows you involving yourself actively in the Brown community? Prompt three. Tell us about a place or community you call home. How has it shaped your perspective? 250 words again. I really like this essay. It's kind of a fun essay potentially has a lot of creativity embedded in kind of the responses that I read and help students develop. I also love that you can kind of recycle this basically with the community's essay for the University of Michigan. So if you're applying to both, boom, there you go. So first and foremost, you want to define home, right? So how do you define home? Is that a geographical location? Is that kind of connoting a warmth place or an actual family member? So how do you define a home? It could be multiple types of homes, right? Like I've had students write about a yoga studio, how they feel home there and I'll give you a couple lines. I've had students write about a rec center where they go play basketball for where they've gone basically almost every Thursday for six years and then grandma's house. So like it could be a very specific your typical home or house or it could be somewhere that you feel the most welcomed and free to be your most authentic self, right? So I really like that. First you want to kind of define your parameters of home. And then once you offer that, you want to offer your perspective on it. So what have you contributed? What have you learned? And that's kind of key. So for the yoga studio essay, here are a couple of pulled quotes. While 78 year old Cindy with salt and pepper hair and my 13 year old cousin who is a competitive gymnast may seem to have nothing in common. When the teacher offers up the first downward dog, we're all equal on our mats. So we get the sense that first we dropped the kind of geographical pin right in the yoga studio without kind of telling phrases at the yoga studio that I've gone to twice a week for the last three years. That's less interesting as we see an older woman and a younger cousin and then kind of coming together in this space. So that already is telling me that there are multiple demographics coming together here that home here is about diversity, but it's also about finding commonality. So I really, really like that. And then you want to talk about kind of how you measure happiness, how you measure belonging and how you want to bring that to the Brown community. Ultimately, you are applying to become part of this community, right? This college campus. So you definitely want to kind of talk about something that has been most enriching and fulfilling as a home, but then also what have you kind of contributed or taken with you as a lesson learned that you can bring to your new community. So if you are applying to the program in liberal medical education, there are three more essays. Yay. And so I'm going to give you the prompts real quick and kind of some two cents, but if you want more info on this, definitely comment below. Let me know that you want more and I can do a video on this. All right. So prompt one, committing to a future career as a physician while in high school requires careful consideration and self reflection. What values and experiences have led you to believe that becoming a doctor in medicine is the right fit for you? So this is 250, a short essay, right? Like two, maybe three small paragraphs, short paragraphs. So you definitely want to have kind of like a mini personal statement in the sense of let your experiences guide you. Maybe you have two experiences, whether that's been volunteering or in a clinical space. So volunteering at a children's hospital, let's say, or at an elderly facility and kind of zoom into very specific exchanges with a patient or in research. So kind of have this kind of balance between your big dreams, but then also anchor them in very concrete experiences. Prompt two, most people describe a career as a physician doctor as a profession beyond a job described for us what professionalism and the profession of a physician doctor means to you. So this is very similar to the home one. So first you want to define the term, right? So what are the parameters of professionalism for you? What does that kind of type of attribute or behavior look like? So you don't have to start with a definition. You can start with an example or a story form in of your personal experience of you showing, exemplifying those traits, and then you can have a kind of follow up reflective, what does professionalism mean to me and how you showed that in the experience. Or because you've been writing a few, if you have this kind of story up top and then reflection bottom type template, you want to kind of switch it up, you can definitely start with the definition and then kind of have the story to kind of back it up as evidence. And then prompt three, how do you envision the program in liberal medical education helping you to meet your academic personal and professional goals as a person and as a physician of the future. So remember Brown at the heart of the kind of admission profile is this idea of open curriculum. I know this is asking about the PLME, but you want to kind of talk about how you would take initiative within this specific program. So how will this program develop your academic professional and personal attributes. So some essays I've seen are kind of actual attributes that students kind of work through and then tie them to those three buckets and then bring in very specific kind of advantages and opportunities that this program offers. Others have kind of really anchored it as kind of a typical what I would call medical school personal statement because it's kind of anchored in story and reflection of experiences you've already had. So as the longest of the two, you want to kind of spend kind of considerable amount of time both kind of showing and then some reflecting and telling, right? You want kind of more kind of descriptive whenever possible so that you really anchor that in experience. You're applying as a high school student, you haven't had the kind of time that undergrads and postbacks who are applying to medical school have for the kind of breath of clinical and volunteer experiences that they tend to have. So they know that, right? But you still have, I'm assuming, pretty memorable foundational experiences that have set you on this course to decide so quickly and so young in your career, right? So you want to kind of develop that a little bit. If you found this helpful, please give us a like, subscribe, and make sure that you are checking out our template. And if you have kind of like supplements or drowning you, you definitely have those in the description below. Thank you.