<p>Is this question more for their information or does it really play a large part in your application?</p>
<p>every year they look for a keyword. if you dont have it, then you are rejected. STRAIGHT OUT. Last year, the keyword was, My Dead Grandmother as I walked down the street. If you said that then you were in. The year before that, it was "the Hot ad com who visited our school". So yea, find someone who knows it.</p>
<p>wow that was funny.</p>
<p>it's really just a two sentence answer</p>
<p>"My guidance counselor told me about Brown, and how the open curriculum would match my intellectual curiosity, and varied interests"</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>"My uncle, John Smith, Class of 76, took me up to the campus when I was younger, and I've always had it on the back of my mind"</p>
<p>MY FAVORITE</p>
<p>"It was featured in a recent movie starring Natalie Portman, and then I wanted to find out more about the school"</p>
<p>^This kid got into PLME^</p>
<p>lol someone said that about columbia (spiderman)</p>