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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s super interesting on the handwritten, I wonder why. Was it the weeding tool of how interested are you like optional essays are now ?!

Mine liked theirs best as the supplementals came easily, schools with less prompts made them feel like the stakes were higher as less opportunity to show themselves. It’s funny, just reread the prompts from last year, and they really make sense to me now that I know school better.[/quote]

I also applied to/went to Brown when they required handwritten essays. My understanding at the time was that it was an anti-cheating measure (although there were rumors that they analyzed your handwriting).[/quote]

I remember those rumors. I had pretty straightforward handwriting but remember a lot of stress about printing vs. cursive. In my memory they required cursive, but that seems insane even for Brown so I probably made it up.

For the photos, the rumor was that they were paying close attention to those even though I remember the visiting admissions officers saying at a big info session for multiple colleges that it was just “to put a name with a face”. They didn’t have alumni interviews in my area then and never visited my school so it’s not like they needed to jog their memory.

A classmate at my HYP later told me that their prep school told them exactly what kind of photos to select:  candid, outdoorsy or traveling, and not straight-on. I don’t know if that was based on anything real. Unfortunately mine was basically a mugshot of me smiling at a birthday party. The admissions officials were probably like “wow, a brown-haired girl from the Midwest who has a face, we’re bored already” and waitlisted me in that moment.[/quote]

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