<p>By geographic diversity, I’m pretty sure they mean that applicants from states/countries that usually don’t send a lot of kids to Ivies like (crude generalizations) Montana, Wyoming, Belarus or Chile, have a bit of an upper hand over someone from Pennsylvania or New York. </p>
<p>However, a diverse background can definitely be an asset, so long as you make clear the ways in which being multi-national will allow you to contribute to the Brown community.</p>