150 Word Limit Of College Essay

Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences. (150 word limit)

Principally, I am the Editor-in-Chief of the iPatriot Post, the online newspaper of my school which publishes original content alongside articles cut from the print paper. I am in charge of all the content and the website itself.

Concurrent to my online roles, I write, copyedit, layout, and take pictures for the actual newspaper, the Patriot Post.

Considering that I also work for the National Speech and Debate Association’s Student Soapbox publication as well as my local newspaper’s Teenlink publication, journalism is a huge part of my life, and after debate, my greatest time commitment.

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Why are you drawn to the area(s) of study

(100 word limit)

I love the way Brown handles academics: its open curriculum and its ABC/NC grading system. From my additional information essay, you can tell I’m going to college to learn, not to get a letter grade—and the freedom of an open curriculum is just what I want when it comes to course selection.

Last fall, QuestBridge students at Brown invited prospective students in the QuestBridge Facebook group to a Q&A group chat where I learned about Brown, not as a school, but a home. I liked it, the sense of community they talked about, the kinship between peers.

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Tell us where you have lived - and for how long - since you were born; whether you've always lived in the same place, or perhaps in a variety of places. (100 word limit)

I’ve lived my life in the same house, close enough to see my middle school from my bedroom. It was the luxury of a school in walking distance that allowed me to spend as much time as I did on extracurriculars (which paved the way for my scholarship to American