Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
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PART ONE
1. Submit an essay written for a course at Northwestern that you think is your best work.
Send your essay and this applicationto
Subject line of the email should read:
YOUR LAST NAME / BRADY APPLICATION
2. Please ask a Northwestern instructor or advisor who knows you to submit a letter of recommendation for you using the form available online at
If you do not receive an email confirming receipt of your application within three days of submission, please contact
PART TWO
Please answer the following questions:
1) What major or majors are you considering? What is it about that subject or those subjects that appeals to you? Do you have a career in mind? (We do not require that you do.)
(Use no more than 50 words)
2) Where might you want to study abroad? Why that part of the world? Are you concerned about the obstacles (financial or other) you may face studying abroad? (If so, we can discuss with you possible remedies.)
(Use no more than 50 words)
3) Which activities inside or outside of school have been most important to you? These may include Northwestern activities or earlier pursuits. They may include jobs you have held. Name up to three. Explain in a sentence or two about each: why have they meant so much to you?
4) Now that you have been a college student for almost a year, what new ideas or experiences have had the greatest impact on you? Which aspect of your new life was least expected?
(Use no more than 250 words)
5) Name three living people (among those you have never met) whom you greatly admire. In a sentence or two about each, explain why you admire them.
6) Which three books have had the greatest influence on you? In a sentence or two about each, explain (to someone who has not read them) why they have been so meaningful to you.
7) The Brady Program seeks students who have a diversity of personalities, interests, backgrounds, skills and outlooks. We would like to know what each applicant is like as a person. Which five words or phrases do you think would be used to describe you by those who know you best?
8) Among the activities of the Brady Program are weekly, informal, hour-long discussions of some of the challenges of living a meaningful life, or some of the moral and political issues facing the U.S. or the world. Each student is called upon to propose a topic for discussion and to lead it. If you become a Brady Scholar, what topic would you propose?
9) There may be questions that should be asked of applicants to the Brady Program that we have not thought of. What new question would you like to see on next year’s application?
Thank you for applying to the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life
You will be notified of the Admissions decision by Monday, April 25, 2016