<p>For candidates applying to Brown’s 8-year PLME program or the five-year Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, additional essays are required.</p>
<p>My question is when those essays are read. Are they considered in deciding the candidates initial qualification for admission to Brown, and can they influence that decision? Or are they set aside and not read at all until that initial (favorable) decision has been made?</p>
<p>Obviously, a candidate doesnt want to repeat herself over and over in the multiple essays that have to be submitted for a dual degree program . . . but saving things for the PLME/RISD essays isnt a good idea either, if the failure to include them in the primary supplements means the candidate never even gets to the PLME/RISD round.</p>
<p>So, what to do???</p>
<p>I’m not sure I understand your question. Don’t you submit everything at once? I think your application is considered incomplete if you haven’t submitted the supplemental essays, and wouldn’t be read at all until those come in.</p>
<p>My understanding of the process is that admissions readers get the whole file – essays, too – and look at everything at once. I am not as familiar with how the PLME and Brown/RISD program work, though. But I don’t know why they wouldn’t read everything submitted.</p>
<p>For PLME, admissions officers start out by reading your Brown app. If they choose to accept you, then your file is sent over to the PLME admissions committee. They don’t want to waste their time by reading the files of students who wouldn’t even be accepted to Brown. The PLME admissions committee will then evaluate your whole file.</p>
<p>RISD is a different story. For RISD, your Brown and RISD applications are read separately by each school, and the extra supplement is read in the case that you are accepted to both.</p>
<p>Someone told me that the Brown admissions committee also reads the PLME candidate’s entire file - including the PLME supplements - in making the basic admissions decision. I may have misunderstood, though. Are you saying the PLME supplements are read only by the PLME committee?</p>
<p>That’s my question, fireandrain: Who reads the PLME supplements?</p>
<p>The way I understand it, the admissions committee has the whole file, so they have the option of reading the PLME essays if they’re interested. I don’t know whether they always do or not, and it probably depends on the individual admissions officer.</p>
<p>It looks like bruno has the right answer, as mentioned in this video, it is in the file, seems likely it will be read by regular admissions.
[Hangout</a> On Air with Brown University Admissions Officers: “What Happens After You Press Submit” - YouTube](<a href=“Hangout On Air with Brown University Admissions Officers: "What Happens After You Press Submit" - YouTube”>Hangout On Air with Brown University Admissions Officers: "What Happens After You Press Submit" - YouTube)</p>
<p>my guess is it’s read but even more skimmed than usual as the Brown UG committee is not interested in evaluating you as a potential physician like the PLME committee is.</p>