The Brown College application process is student-driven and student-contolled. The Membership co-chairs, part of Brown College's Governance Board, coordinate the creation of each yearly application and administrate the admissions process. While the Membership co-chairs are the people most involved in all aspects of the membership process, they draw upon the talents and energy of all Brown College residents in order to complete many essential Membership-related tasks. All residents of Brown are eligible to submit candidate questions for the application as well as sit on one of many application-reading committees that ultimately determine who lives in Brown.

This section of the site is your source for information regarding the Brown College application process and membership at Brown. The links above will lead you to information relevant to all prospective Brown residents as well as to selection results for those who have already applied and are waiting on a decision from Membership.

Imagine yourself thriving in UVA's premier residential college. Brown College at Monroe Hill: boundless opportunity.

We believe that home should be as stimulating as it is comfortable. Ours is a socially engaging community that provides each resident with space to call their own. Brown Residential College is an active, closely-knit community of nearly 300 undergraduate residents of all years and majors, 2 resident faculty scholars, and 40 non-resident faculty fellows. Located in the heart of Central Grounds, on Monroe Hill, Brown College is situated snugly between Newcomb and McCormick Roads, less than one block from the Lawn.

Brown's twelve buildings, or portals, offer air-conditioned single rooms for each student, in addition to a study lounge, kitchen, computer lab, library, laundry facilities, and two TV lounges. While a prime location and enviable living space are among Brown's most attractive traits, the community is what truly sets us apart from other on-grounds housing options. Creative, active, scholarly, eclectic, relaxed, social, open-minded: Brown College is the product of its residents.

Davis, Smith, Mallet, Long, Venable, Gildersleeve, McGuffey, Harrison, Tucker, Holmes, Rogers, Peters: each portal, housing 21-30 residents, has its own identity. Students create both a community and a home at Monroe Hill, infusing Brown with their passions, talents, and energy.

A series of underground tunnels connect all the portals in Brown College; the tunnels keep students connected and make visiting convenient, even in the worst weather.

Residents share informal meals every day, and the camaraderie established in the dining hall extends into each part of residential life.

Residents create their own opportunities, from lectures to intramurals. Novel prospects arise constantly.

Residents represent a wide variety of majors, student organizations, backgrounds, creeds, political beliefs, and interests, all living and interacting in one place.

Residents can explore the backstage of academia through special student-taught courses.

Brown fosters a relaxed and receptive environment among students, faculty fellows, friends, and alumni.

Modeled after the residential colleges of Cambridge and Oxford, Brown believes that dining is about more than sustenance. A special seating area in the Newcomb Dining Hall is a major hub for both residents and faculty to discuss, banter, and relax—fostering the sense of a smaller college within the context of a large university. Students are required to purchase a Brown College Meal Plan, which includes monthly, catered banquets for residents and faculty fellows.Banquets feature different monthly themes (and related entertainment), good food, and great company.

In 1986, Monroe Hill, the first modern residential college at the University, opened its doors. Now named Brown College in honor of the endowment donated by the Brown family, it is le by a principal and two Directors of Studies. Brown's 40 non-resident faculty fellows hail from a variety of University departments. Faculty fellows interact with residents on a daily basis, participating in Brown events and acting as informal advisors.

The unique variety of formal and informal programs offered by the students and faculty of Brown College includes short courses and Great Books seminars, among others. Based on critical thinking and discussion, these courses are small, digestible, ever-changing, and built to suit.

Keeping with the tradition of the University, Brown College has its own student self-governance. Three elected officers oversee a budget of over $35,000 and the efforts of over a dozen programming chairs, all of whom organize a variety of social activities. These activities include semi-annual semi-formals; trips to the circus, ballet, and orchestra; community outreach; and Hauntings, the annual haunted house for charity.

Lectures, parties, film screenings, road trips, intramurals, cookouts: all residents can create any kind of intellectual and social opportunities.

Brown College requires a separate application in addition to the Housing Agreement form. The application itself, though, draws students in more than any other factor. Why? It's creative, original, and fun.

Current residents choose future ones. During the application process, we read applications stripped of the applicant's personal identifiers. The selection process is anonymous and private.

Brown College suites each contain two 12 x 11' 6" rooms adjoined to one, two, or three other suites via a common bathroom. Each air-conditioned suite comes furnished with two 80 x 36 (extra long) captain's bed with six drawers, two closets (6' 9" H x 2' 10" W x 1' 7" D), four overhead shelves, two desks with bookcases, two chairs, individual connections to the University's computer network, phone service with voice mail, and basic cable at an additional charge.