Welcome to Brown University.
My name is Logan Powell, and I'm the Dean of Admission.
On behalf of the Office of College Admission,
we are thrilled that you are interested
in learning more about Brown.
We hope this presentation gives you helpful insight
into the application process and into life at Brown.
The college application process may seem daunting,
but please remember that this is a time to learn more
about yourself as we learn more about you.
If you are drawn to Brown's combination
of rigorous intellectual engagement and our diverse,
active, and supportive campus community,
we strongly encourage you to find out
what it means to be a Brunonian.
Thank you for visiting virtually,
and good luck as you continue the application process.
We hope you enjoy this introduction to Brown.
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- Brown is very, very good at bringing people together,
faculty and students, from multiple disciplines
to work on some of the world's most pressing challenges.
- Brown has some of the most brilliant minds
on the planet in our faculty.
We have these amazing students who come here eager to learn,
full of ideas, who wanna become the best leaders
in their field.
- For me, as a student, it makes my classes more compelling
and more interesting when you have all
these different minds, all these different backgrounds
right in the same room.
- Most of the problems that our students
are gonna have to face do not appear in textbooks.
What learning in this open, collaborative environment does,
is it prepares our students for those lives
of leadership and thought.
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- Because of Brown, I know that I'm so much more prepared
and so much more confident to tackle on the real world
after Brown, and tackle on the challenges of our generation.
- Brown students have this amazing combination
of rigorousness and open creativity.
They're like super disciplined and they work hard,
but then they're open and creative in ways
you don't normally associate with that kind of discipline.
So you really get the best of both worlds.
Totally self-motivated.
- When I think about the students that choose Brown,
they wanna be here because they want to explore
all that a world-class research university
has to offer them.
They wanna be involved in research,
in service, in teaching.
They wanna be the architects of their own curriculum.
More so than in any of our peer institutions,
Brown's students are active participants in every aspect
of the university mission.
- Brown's students are thinkers, they're creators
they are often constructively irreverent,
but they're also doers.
They're people who wanna make a difference in the world.
- Brown is definitely gonna make you
into an even stronger student,
but your presence on campus is gonna make this school
an even better school.
- Brown is going to fit and change to you,
because it is such a receptive, evolving space.
- And so, if you wanna be a part of like building
an amazing community, that's why I would say come to Brown,
because you will absolutely be like integral
to this community.
- [Female Student] The open curriculum makes it
so that you can like really pursue anything you want.
- [Male Student] The real Brown experience is making
the most of that open curriculum.
- Even that thing that's kind of like in the back
of your head, like, I don't know if I would really
be good at visual arts, but maybe I wanna try it out.
You can.
- It allowed me to be in the driver's seat
of what I wanted to learn and what I wanted to do
with the knowledge and the skills that I was gonna obtain
as a result.
- I've taken classes in 16 departments of Brown
since I've been here, including history,
which is what I study.
I took a class on neuroscience,
I took a class on public health,
I took environmental science, I took computer science.
- It just allows for so much intellectual exploration
and so much growth.
- What inspires students to come to Brown
is the spirit of open inquiry, is curiosity,
but in the way that we achieve educational success here,
it's about generosity.
It's about helping and supporting one another.
- I think with Brown's size of 6,600 undergraduate or so,
I'm meeting people every single day,
and yet I'm still seeing familiar faces.
- Every room I walk into, if it's in a classroom,
in a club, at work, at a party,
in a restaurant on Thayer Street,
I have people around me who wanna hear
what I'm interested in and I wanna hear
what they're interested in.
- Just the amount of raw, authentic people
that you'll be able to meet who are so passionate
to do whatever it is that they wanna do.
Whether that's music, computers, sports.
- The longer I've been here, I've realized, man,
I can do really anything that I wanna do
in the way I wanna do it.
- And especially as someone that has never really had access
to anything like this before,
sometimes I feel like I'm living in a fairytale.
It's really awesome.
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