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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) The Brady Program aims to assemble a class with diverse opinions on a range of issues. Give some examples of views that you think are wrong or misguided, but about which reasonable people can disagree, and that you would be glad to discuss with other Brady scholars.
7) If you were given time off to spend reading a book you have never read before, what would it be? What would you expect to get out of it?
8) If you could change one feature of life in the United States or the world with a snap of your fingers, what would it be? In a sentence, say what’s so bad about that feature.
Thank you for applying to the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life