<p>OK… So i decided to take a risk and write about my homosexuality for the Brown essay and express how open I am… is it too much of a risk?</p>
<p>I don't see why it'd be a risk, personally. I wouldn't be concerned.</p>
<p>My common app essay was about being gay and I was admitted ED </p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you'd like me to read your essay and/or you'd like to read mine.</p>
<p>i dont think it's bad, but you must write it well enough to carry it off
i can read it for you (heterosexual not applying to brown)</p>
<p>i read this quote somewhere: "there're no bad topics, there're only bad approaches to topics"... its really cliche quote, i know, but the point is pretty clear.</p>
<p>and i dont think discussing homosexuality is a risky topic, as long as you deal with it sensitively. a guy last year wrote about how tough it was growing up gay in a catholic household. he got into stanford.</p>
<p>hope this helps.</p>
<p>It's not a risk, but realize (based on some of these comments) that it's also not unusual.</p>
<p>i did that (essay on being gay) and got deferred....</p>
<p>Do what you will. I don't think it's a risk, but it won't look super original. I did it because i knew it would be the best essay that I could write, not because I wanted to stand out as a queer student.</p>
<p>Dear Richard Weed:</p>
<p>Perhaps Brown likes individuals with strong personal essays, as those written by gay and lesbian students certainly can be. </p>
<p>I fail to see how it is "outrageous" to discuss the influence an applicant's sexuality has had on him, and perhaps the LGBT activism the student has led in her school and/or community as a result.</p>
<p>I wrote about being gay and was admitted ED. Choose essays that will show character...if this is a way to do so then do it.</p>
<p>Most East coast schools are generally liberal so it shouldn't be that big of a problem.</p>