<p>Hey, </p>
<p>Im on my last bit of the app - How did I hear about Brown. Now I am from England and truth be told I heard about Brown from a TV series - most of you can probably guess which one I mean. Can I say this, but then go on to say how I then did loads of research bla bla and how i realised that Brown actually was the place for me (much less cliched of course)</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>I think brown will appreciate u being honest</p>
<p>haha thats really original..go for it! Since you're from overseas, I'm sure they won't hold it against you and its definitely more memorable for the adcoms than the usual "I never knew of a time when I didn't want to go t brown" bs they get! :)</p>
<p>What TV show?
I'm just wondering, haha. I can't think of one that talks about Brown a lot?</p>
<p>I know that Cornell is always mentioned in "The Office" hahaha</p>
<p>The OC! the simpsons..mmm what else?</p>
<p>GOSSIP GIRL! serena's mom went to brown..or her dad</p>
<p>The OC?
OHH YEAHHH gossip girl hahah. Yale and Brown.</p>
<p>I was thinking Family Guy...I have never watched it before, but when I told my brother I was applying to Brown, he was like ohhh, the school that's always mentioned in Family Guy, haha.</p>
<p>I'm writing about how The O.C. made me seriously look at Brown, after I had written it off as a pretentious ivy without any foreknowledge whatsoever. </p>
<p>I'd think twice about a school if you feel you have to lie about what piqued your interest! I was a bit uneasy about sharing my experience at first, but I don't see any reason to lie about it.</p>
<p>yeah the OC..summer (rachel Bilson) and Seth Cohen went to Brown</p>
<p>Hmm... I thought Seth went to RISD.</p>
<p>And I'm sure they've heard it before.</p>
<p>oo YEAH seth went to RISD..his comic art..my badd</p>
<p>haha definitely the OC, Gossip Girl is too recent :P </p>
<p>anyway, that would be fine. i don't really think they're expecting you to have had some sort of mindblowing epiphany or something, and I'm guessing most british people would have no idea about Brown if it weren't for popular culture/the OC</p>
<p>oh god. anyone remember the episode of gossip girl where blair said that harvard, princeton, and yale were the only real ivies. and brown was just an amateur ivy or something. i thought that was hilarious, although insulting to my (hopefully) future alma mater.</p>
<p>Yeah, I remember that episode. Serena was the one who wanted to go to Brown and at that time, Blair was hating on her, so she was like Brown's a school for hippies/druggies. Something like that in a much more complicated sentence, haha.</p>
<p>ha i was going to write about the OC too
and the sisterhood of the travelling pants
and gossip girl books
but im thinking its not so unique anymore</p>
<p>LOL! Yeah Sisterhood of the traveling pants..all 4 of them ended up in good schools..sooo unfair..</p>
<p>The first time I heard of it was in the Princeton Review, after that was when one of my friends was reading Gossip Girl (yes the book before the series). What I remember was that in the beginning of a chapter they were talking about Brown. That caught my attention.</p>
<p>I first read about Brown in a novel, in which the protagonist, a depressed teenage girl, applies to Brown because according to her, “if I got into Brown, then that would mean that I deserved to be there, and if I was a person who deserved to be there, then somehow everything would turn out all right.” She was very low on self-confidence… especially since her guidance counselor told her that Brown would never take someone like her. And she did end up getting rejected. I just think it’s really interesting.</p>