Application Essay Excerpts

Among the countless sayings and aphorisms about family, a specific one by dramatist James Barrie reminds me of my own family: “So much of what is great has sprung from the closeness of family ties”. However, my family interpreted this “closeness” in the most literal sense possible: residential proximity...

Last year for an English and Composition class I was given an assignment to invent a project, advertise it and create a sales pitch. My group took on the challenge of not only inventing a project and trying to sell it, but actually building the project so it was tangible...

The though of being able to use my hands and mind jointly to build and put together a project has led me to be very interested in engineering. The research that comes with engineering will allow me to get my hands dirty and understand scientific processes better...

I have spoken to a representative at a college fair at my school and I have talked to students who have attended Brown. Brown students have informed me of all the options available to me. I am excited to participate in the intramurals and the student groups such as the Attitude Dance Group...

"If the favorite cooke was Mrs. Stewart's, then the favorite one couldn't have been chocolate chip or multigrain. And if Sally didn't make the multigrain cookie, then her last name is not Green..."..

If there is one thing I have learned about myself over the past few years it is that I have an internal craving to keep myself preoccupied at every given moment. It is absolutely necessary for me to have something to accomplish each and every day...

In first grade, I was interviewed by my elementary school to see if I was suitable for the enrichment program, and one question proposed to me was, “Bailey, what is your favorite subject?” And I, unique from the typical response of “recess” or “lunch,” replied with “grammar.” Although I was completely truthful at the time, it is ironic that now grammar is my least favorite subject and my interests and strengths now lay on the opposite side of the subject spectrum with mathematics and sciences...

I am on what my history teacher calls the “three-day-a-week accelerated program” in that I’m usually at school three times a week. Inevitably, my friends want to know why I’m out of school for days at a time; this is where my frustration begins. There are times when I simply say, “CASC stuff.”..

I’ve read one book by a Yale professor, On Writing Well by William Zinsser. Most of what I learned though was not about writing...

My brother is gay. Though he hadn’t publicly stated so until just a few years ago, there have been strong suggestions his whole life. Much of his life and his social experience were more or less defined by his homosexuality and the way other people treated him...