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Please indicate your topic by checking the appropriate box. This personal essay helps us become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself. NOTE: Your Common Application essay should be the same for all colleges. Do not customize it in any way for individual colleges. Colleges that want customized essay responses will ask for them on a supplement form.  \nChoose one topic from the six below:  \n􀂃 Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.  \n􀂃 Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.  \n􀂃 Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.  \n􀂃 Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc. ) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.  \n􀂃 A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.  \n􀂃 Topic of your choice.  \nShort Answer (150 words or fewer)  \n􀂃 Please briefly elaborate on one of your activities (extracurricular, personal activities, or work experience)  \nSource:[https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012/2012AppFY_download](https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012/2012AppFY_download)  \n[.pdf](.pdf)  \nBrown University  \n2010 and 2011/2012 Essay Topics  \n􀂃 Required Essay  \n􀂃 Please respond to one of the following essay topics: A, B, or C (Upload your response or attach it separately, and include your full name, school, and birth date at the top of the page. We prefer that you limit your response to 500 words maximum, and that you avoid repeating the essay submitted for the Common Application.):  \n􀂃 A. Tell us about an intellectual experience, project, class, or book that has influenced or inspired you.  \n􀂃 B. What is the best piece of advice you've ever been given, and why?  \n􀂃 C. French novelist Anatole France wrote: “An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.” What don't you know?  \n􀂃 Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) (Both essays required for applicants to this program)  \n􀂃 1. 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