<p>my “who interested you” is about 260 characters, is that fine?</p>
<p>uh, my response is eight words long and takes up half the space provided. I don't think it makes a difference on the app....</p>
<p>uh, yikes, my response was only like less than 100 characters, and I worked to scrunch those in. (I write big) yeah, 260 characters sounds a bit lengthy (though not over the top), but whatever stirs your coffee. ;)</p>
<p>My response: "I was looking around princeton review a while ago, and Brown just caught my eye."</p>
<p>260 characters is kind of ridiculous.</p>
<p>wha? I thought the limit is 500 characters?
260 should be just fine. Heck, short if anything.</p>
<p>on the paper application, they provide three lines for an answer. Not even three full lines either...so I really doubt they're expecting long answers. It's not like it would make any impact on your application anyways, they're just curious about who it was who initially got you interested. It's not supposed to be something that you actually spend time on...</p>
<p>amen to that. I was just going to say that. heh</p>
<p>my "who interested you in brown" 119 words..
is that too long?</p>
<p>Initially I wrote "My brother" but decided that was just too short and informal, so I made it a complete sentence. Just stay within the char limits. If they wanted it to be 250 chars, the limit would be 250.</p>
<p>hee...mine was 135 words, 583 characters long</p>
<p>I have a special person who interested me in Brown... so I wrote a decent about.</p>
<p>hey starryeyedgirl how did u fit that in... did u do it online?</p>
<p>cus mines 119 words and apparantly i'm over word limit (on the online app)</p>
<p>i did a paper app...allows for more freedom :)</p>
<p>mine's 497. you wanna show you give a *<strong><em>, the "i was looking around princeton review" looks like *</em></strong> lol... you obviously aren't very passionate about the school</p>
<p>well he got in, so it obviously worked.</p>
<p>Hooray for me.</p>
<p>How else would I have heard of it or any school? Unless any of my parents or relatives were alums. I heard about all of the schools I was considering through resources like that. You're an idiot for making the conclusion that, due to the fact that I discovered it through PR, I'm not passionate about Brown University. What a stupid thing to say.</p>
<p>I don't like to BS things. I prefer to be frank and to the point. Adcoms hate filler, anyway.</p>
<p>I agree about the to-the-pointedness. The only thing that wasn't concise and to the point was the personal statement. Why make adcoms read 10 sentences when 2 is enough?</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>Anything else just sounds pretentious.</p>
<p>i.e. this is terrible: "My parents were driving me around to different colleges so I could choose some good schools. So far I'd been to 3, and they'd all been lackluster. I just wasn't impressed. Then we were driving through Providence, R.I. My parents were enthusiastic to be there, and they told me we were at Brown University. I thought, 'Brown University? What's that?' But then I was enlightened. We took the tour, and I realized Brown was different! The people I saw and talked to, the campus feel, the sidewalk and the particular cloud that was overhead--I knew it was perfect for me at that instant!"</p>
<p>And I'm sure a lot of people try this sort of thing (which I just now made up). It just sounds flowery and pretentious. Revelations like this never actually happen, and adcoms see right through it. Try being blunt.</p>