While some institutions hold the occasional open house, Brown's Literary Arts Department does not hold any such formal program for its applicants. The majority of our applicants do not visit campus in anticipation of their application, and such visits will not provide an advantage to those candidates in the admission review process.

Indeed, the department is not able to arrange for class visits by prospective students (with about 1,000 applicants, the workshop experience would be dramatically changed by the regular presence of guests). Further, we do not encourage contact with the program faculty during the admission review period (15 December through 15 February).