<p>So, Brown has a required essay question that asks, "Tell us where you have lived - and for how long - since you were born; whether you've always lived in the same place, or perhaps in a variety of places." It has a 100-word limit- which is quite short- so I am not sure if it is just asking a brief description of where you have lived (e.g., city, state, nation, how long) like Harvard asks, or if they want something more, like how it influenced you.
They have another (required) essay question that says "We all exist within communities or groups of various sizes, origins, and purposes; pick one and tell us why it is important to you, and how it has shaped you," so this one obviously is asking how your community/group has influenced you, but I am not sure about the "where you lived" question.
Thanks!</p>
<p>There are a lot of ways to interpret the second question – you could belong to a lot of different communities, it isn’t just the neighborhood or city or state you live in. There are special interest communities related to your ECs, school communities, your family, online fandom communities, religious communities, communities around a job or place like your local library, and I am sure many more. If my kids were doing these two prompts, I think for the first I’d encourage them to describe where we have lived and some of the qualities people who live in our city/state tend to have. Then for the second, I would encourage them to think more broadly about the concept of community than just physically where we live. Although I could see them doing both (maybe focusing tightly in on a street we used to live on that had a big influence on my older kid as the second essay would have worked, even with a description of where we have lived in the first one). </p>
<p>[Let</a> me Google that for you.](<a href=“"whether you've always lived in the same place""]Let - Google Search”>"whether you've always lived in the same place" - Google Search)</p>
<p>I know, I did google it. I just can’t seem to understand how I can really explain how where I have lived has influenced me in 100 words.</p>