<p>I need to totally grab an ACT prep book and study after I get back to TASP. Anything to make my application for Brown better is perfect.</p>
<p>You’re going to TASP? Ooh, nice!</p>
<p>Yes! UT Austin TASP :)</p>
<p>Awesome! That’s gonna help a load for Brown :)</p>
<p>Yeah, TASP should definitely help your application- partly on its own, partly from the essay-writing experience it entails.</p>
<p>Yeah! And the experience itself I hope will let me grow and kind of understand my own situation and why I want BROWN and nothing else in the first place!</p>
<p>What does TASP stand for?</p>
<p>Telluride Association Summer Program</p>
<p>Two days of silence?
Damn!</p>
<p>I’m so sorry tetrisfan.</p>
<p>Oh man, so I wrote my 20th “Why Brown” essay last night. I don’t know why, I just keep getting ideas and they all somehow fit within the 1600 character limit :)</p>
<p>I’ve been busy revising for the SAT, lol… so please pardon me if I don’t post as often. :)</p>
<p>The only admissions essays I’ve written so far is the ones I wrote for my rejected TASP application which could double as admissions essays. That’ll change soon, though- I’m writing one for English tonight, and will spend a decent amount of the summer writing essays for admissions or scholarships.</p>
<p>Anyone know if the why Brown essay is more like "straightforward and to the point or you can tell a story as well? Like do they essentially want a “I want ot go to Brown because…” or a little bit of a story too?</p>
<p>For what it’s worth:</p>
<p>There was only 1 essay when I applied, but I used it more or less as a “why Brown” essay. It was definitely no story, and I got in. With that said, I feel my essay was not strong and that I got in in spite of it. You want to jump out while giving as much of a sense of who you are and why Brown is perfect for you and you for it as you can within the word limit. However you want to manage that.</p>
<p>My Why Brown essay right now has a story + why I wanna go to Brown :p</p>
<p>I still don’t have a Why Brown essay written, but now I have an essay about my family’s routine of playing Jeopardy every night. :P</p>
<p>Ooh, that sounds like it has a lot of potential</p>
<p>It’s tough for me to summarize why I want to go to Brown. There are so many reasons why I want to go, namely for the experience in and of itself. Yes, the open curriculum is great. Yes, the people are well known for being passionate. But the whole experience is what I need. I’ve lived a large majority of my life essentially through the Internet thus far; all my interests, beliefs, aspirations, etc. were shaped not by my environment, but things I’ve happened upon thanks to the Internet. No one ever taught me about any of these things, and they damn sure don’t like that I enjoy the things that I do now. I’m a threat to this quasi-suburban nothingness; no one wants change, they want things to stay the same. Knowledge, questioning things isn’t tolerated if it isn’t what the rest of society beliefs. Fear City, I call this place. And being arund all this nothingness has driven me further and further into isolation.</p>
<p>And at Brown I hope to come out of my shell finally. To be able to actually find people that really enjoy the things that I’ve always read about on the internet, and actually act on those interests. To make these years-long fantasies into reality. I’ve heard a great quote about people at Brown, that they are either “social caterpillars or social butterflies, but they can turn the former into the latter.” **I **ING WANT THAT!!! No wait, NEED that. I want to be nurtured by my environment, yet allowed to set out on my independent path as well. I want to love where I am, not simply want to wait another four years to truly live. I simply want to live, and for the first time in my life, enjoy living! </p>
<p>Okay, aside from the expletive, I’m saving that one as well. I just wrote that out in five minutes. I know they say not to, but I have a feeling that by November I’ll have 10-15 more of those and probably break down in tears deciding which one to send in!</p>
<p>Really, in a nutshell, it’s hard to see Brown from where I am. Hell, it’s hard to see college in general for most kids in LA Unified School District, but I’ve kept my heart set on Brown like a target, and really it has more or less saved me from going insane because I can’t stand it here so much. So yes, a love in a place 3,000 miles away that you haven’t really seen aside from pictures and descriptions on this site CAN do wonders for one’s spirit!</p>
<p>^I feel much the same way you do about some of the colleges I’m applying to, especially Harvard or MIT. Here’s something which helps me whenever I’m feeling bored or in a rut or especially lacking for motivation:</p>
<p>[Google</a> Maps](<a href=“Google Maps”>Google Maps)</p>
<p>Search up “Brown University” after dragging the map to over America, then drag the orange man on the map onto the street you want to view. Not all universities are available using this (notably Princeton) but I’ve explored Harvard, MIT, Stanford… yes, and Brown :). It’s better, in some ways, than just looking up pictures. Here’s the manual if you need it:</p>
<p><a href=“Google Maps Help”>Google Maps Help;
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Which I spend hours viewing on Google Street View :)</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’d enjoy Harvard. I love the city, but the cutthroat atmosphere seems daunting.</p>