How HYP students and alum feel about the other Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:When I went to Brown some of the wealthier kids had more straightlaced older siblings at Harvard and/or nerdier friends at Yale, but we related much more to peers at Wesleyan, Oberlin or Vassar. There was a lot of traveling to NYC on weekends and being impressed by the worldiness of NYU Tisch students. People were mostly at Brown because they were a particular kind of smart kid for whom it was their first choice. But this was during Brown’s hipster era. I feel like it’s much more conventionally “ivy” now.

Mine is there now, and I'd say it still attracts a particular kind of cross-disciplined smart kid (some blend of arts or service or advocacy with STEM, humanities, or entrepreneurship). The academic rigor and achievement required to get in has ratcheted up I'd suspect, just because more applying and FA is much better for mid/lower class than it used to be. First choice for mine and friend group (as far as I know). All (these friends) are very happy. One friend transferred from HYP.

DC reported that Columbia students that were removed from Campus transferred to Brown. I'd be wary of the upcoming year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I went to Brown some of the wealthier kids had more straightlaced older siblings at Harvard and/or nerdier friends at Yale, but we related much more to peers at Wesleyan, Oberlin or Vassar. There was a lot of traveling to NYC on weekends and being impressed by the worldiness of NYU Tisch students. People were mostly at Brown because they were a particular kind of smart kid for whom it was their first choice. But this was during Brown’s hipster era. I feel like it’s much more conventionally “ivy” now.

Mine is there now, and I'd say it still attracts a particular kind of cross-disciplined smart kid (some blend of arts or service or advocacy with STEM, humanities, or entrepreneurship). The academic rigor and achievement required to get in has ratcheted up I'd suspect, just because more applying and FA is much better for mid/lower class than it used to be. First choice for mine and friend group (as far as I know). All (these friends) are very happy. One friend transferred from HYP.

+1 5% acceptance rate. I think it was less than 3% for RD. They had over 50k applicants for the 1,700 spots. With the suicide culture and known stress of others, the “happy Ivy” is more popular. Its proximity to RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) means that it’s a doubly creative community with lots of contributors from every creative standpoint. Brown also has a prestigious medical school, so the diversity of interests on campus is notable.