Who interested you essay--- is this okay? too risky?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Could someone quickly read over my “who interested you” essay blurb? I’m not sure if it’s okay.</p>

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<p>sure! PM me</p>

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<p>This is honestly the one essay that they are most likely not looking for a unique response to. I am almost certain that it is for their own statistical use in terms of assessing how to go about advertising the school in future years.</p>

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<p>It really isn't even an essay... I wrote like four sentences.</p>

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<p>yeah i do agree that it's pretty insignificant in the scheme of things, but it is good to have other people check if you think something may be risky! better safe than sorry!</p>

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<p>Yeah, seriously, 200 characters (I think that was the limit) is not enough room for anything more than half of a paragraph.</p>

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<p>I don't really know what to write... I heard about Brown through... life???
I guess I'll just say undergraduate, because I have much older friends who went there and talked to me about it.</p>

<p>How long are yours?</p>

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<p>ah.... question answered.</p>

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<p>at one of the informational sessions I attended, the admissions officer actually said that they were looking for people to pay more attention to the shorter essays and not just put everything into the "big" essay.</p>

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<p>send it to me :)</p>

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<p>I spent a ridiculously long amount of time on the short essays...agonizingly rewriting them 3 or 4 times.
My "big" essay, however, I wrote in one sitting and have done very little editing so far, but that one came from the heart.
As wepeel said, I would pay attention to the shorter ones..especially considering Ivy League applicants (no matter how smart) need all the help they can get.</p>

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<p>This isn't an essay. It's literally three to four sentences. I barely had enough room to say, I was introduced to Brown by a close family friend who had transferred from GTown and was a recent grad, did some research, visited the school twice, and fell absolutely in love (obviously in more words).</p>

<p>My "Why Brown?" took a good three weeks, and the personal statement was a good three months to polish and fine tune.</p>