<p>So I was actually done with my applications to all colleges yesterday. I decided to reread all that I sent to brown. I’ve realised how risky I have been. In an attempt to be genuine, I have given answers that are light and it looks as if I didnt give them much time. Though I wrote 3 to 4 drafts for almost everything, i feel my responses look like I wasn’t serious about brown. the fact is I love brown and to the extent that during my process, i treated it like a buddy and maybe that is why I’ve been a little casual in my responses. For my engineering supplement, I wrote that dancing has helped increase my interest in engineering. though I’ve proved it, that’s not an answer they would like to read. and this is one of the many eccentric answers I have given. My what you dont know is risky too. I didn’t portray myself as somebody who I am not. I didnt say from childhood I used to break things and them reassemble them. And also I made a faulty airplane work. all this i havn’t done. I wrote who I am. I know theres nothing I can do now, all I want to know is, wasn’t it better to be just original and not pretend to be something else to look better?</p>
<p>As you said, there is nothing you can do now.</p>
<p>It is better to be original…I think the whole dancing thing is creative! See I also feel I was too casual and spit everything out that I never tell anyone. But think about it, do they really want to read big words that won’t make sense? I think its better if we are ourselves and not to pretend we’re something else…we’re all unique!
and I wrote about the PLME, I was going to do the engineering (2nd is prob biomed engineering) but I didn’t know if I should or not. I wrote that I cared about the patients more than the job itself (oncologist) and for why: it attracts me everything about it does, the courses and how I never been introduced to one liberal art course except in one course (AP Lang). Honestly, I really do hope we get in!!</p>
<p>And I wrote that this is not only for me, but for my parents. So that was probably a big risk I wish I did not take! luckily It was only two sentences…!</p>
<p>Alright, so I created this account just for the sake of replying to this. Here goes.</p>
<p>I can’t speak for the quality of your essay without actually seeing it, but that actually sounds like the kind of thing admission officials would love if it’s done right. A few steps above the usual “I knew I wanted to be an engineer from the start” kind of story, at least. It’s a risk, sure, but if there’s any school to chance it with, it’s Brown; they’re a lot more interested in who you are as an individual and less about how easily you click into the mold of your major. From my experience, the dancer/engineer is the kind of person that the university’s looking for. The admission staff seems pretty fine-tuned to finding BS, so it’s definitely good that you’re not sacrificing the truth just to write something closer to what you think they’re looking for. I applied engineering last year with an essay about a movie I made with a group of friends for a school project and got in; my roommate got into PLME with an essay about being overweight. So don’t worry! There’s not a set standard they’re looking for. Your response probably helped more than it hurt.</p>
<p>Good luck to you both!</p>
<p>hey thanks! and I actually got it from a movie, it was a robin williams movie from ninth grade! it was beautiful</p>
<p>well really thank you for this rjdorado. That was very comforting.
And fe2011, best of luck.</p>
<p>You tooo :)</p>