Does anyone know what the admissions committee wants in the “Where you have lived” mini-essay? Are they just looking for a very straightforward answer or can/should you expound on how where you lived has affected you etc? I’ve just lived in one place my entire life but I want to make use of the 100 word limit.
Let your personality show through. They don’t want a three-word answer.
I know that this is probably too late for you now, but in our informational session at Brown before the tour, the assistant admissions director specifically addressed this. He said that Brown was looking for a physical, geographic response to the question, not something metaphorical like “I live in the kitchen, creating new culinary delights.” That doesn’t mean that you can’t be descriptive and imaginative in your response, but they do want a sense of place.