Brown $68K vs. UMich (in-state) $28K

[Anonymous]

It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

[Anonymous]

Only to those who, for some reason, just don't like Brown.

Like those snide comments that deliberately confuse Penn with Penn State.

At the end of the day, they are good colleges and that's all there is to it.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

[Anonymous]

FS officers come from all over the place.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

That's a very subtle put-down. Clearly, you've given this a lot of thought.

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Anonymous wrote:Look into the residential college (known as the "RC"). She could apply to that. It's very much like Brown. It's a pass/fail model. She must be proficient in a second language to graduate from the program. It also guarantees that she'll be placed in a centrally located dorm: East Quad. Then she'll have the best of both worlds.

Aww, I lived in East Quad. Absolutely loved it.

Me too! It's so sad that everyone we went to Michigan with is now a doctor, lawyer, engineer, director, or professor. How they have suffered, without setting foot in the grand Olympus of Brown. Really, we are all living out of paper bags.

"Everyone" is engaged in one of those endeavors?

Most, yes. I could write out a comprehensive list but I doubt it would matter to you. Given those doors slammed in our faces because we were not Brown. Oh the humanity.

So we're at "most" now. Or, rather, we're awaiting a "comprehensive" list that would show that "most" work in one of the five above-mentioned fields. Uh-huh.

Be your own Google bitch, you silly snob.

You got me. We're all living in rusted-out RVS down by the river.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

That's a very subtle put-down. Clearly, you've given this a lot of thought.

NP here -- Well, that's certainly something we don't want on DCUM -- posters who've given some thought to the question at hand and have formed nuanced opinions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

What does that even mean? Is this a granola lefty loon joke 0.05% of the population will ever get?

Brown is rich preppy-ish hipster . . . the same vibe all the other Ivy kids are trying to cultivate and Brown is cultivating the aggressiveness the elite share. I really don't think the elite colleges have much unique character anymore; definitely not as much as they used to.

[Anonymous]

I can only think of Conan o'brien's 2011 Dartmouth commencement speech.

"No, Dartmouth, you must stand tall. Raise your heads high and feel proud.
Because if Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are your self-involved, vain, name-dropping older brothers, you are the cool, sexually confident, lacrosse playing younger sibling who knows how to throw a party and looks good in a down vest. Brown, of course, is your lesbian sister who never leaves her room. And Penn, Columbia, and Cornell—well, frankly, who gives a shit."

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

What does that even mean? Is this a granola lefty loon joke 0.05% of the population will ever get?

Brown is rich preppy-ish hipster . . . the same vibe all the other Ivy kids are trying to cultivate and Brown is cultivating the aggressiveness the elite share. I really don't think the elite colleges have much unique character anymore; definitely not as much as they used to.

That's pathetic, because the elite doesn't give a damn about Brown.

Provide a solid education, like UMich, and stop this snobbish nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Can't wait for the UMD poster to find this thread and then it will reach peak uselessness.

[Anonymous]

I've heard Brown described as a school for rich trust funders. That sort of implies it's popular among the "elite." They also seem to attract a lot of offspring of Hollywood stars. And a few European aristos thrown into the mixture as well.

It's weird how Brown attracts a lot of dislike from certain people. Maybe they find the liberal-hippy reputation threatening. Who knows.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

What does that even mean? Is this a granola lefty loon joke 0.05% of the population will ever get?

Brown is rich preppy-ish hipster . . . the same vibe all the other Ivy kids are trying to cultivate and Brown is cultivating the aggressiveness the elite share. I really don't think the elite colleges have much unique character anymore; definitely not as much as they used to.

That's pathetic, because the elite doesn't give a damn about Brown.

Provide a solid education, like UMich, and stop this snobbish nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Brown is such a hippy-dippy liberal arts school for spoiled trust fund kids.

None of their faculty could ever do something like win a Nobel Prize in a field like Physics.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like many Foreign Service officers attended either U of M or Georgetown. U of M has an extremely strong and far-reaching alumni network.
Brown will always carry that "Bennington of the Ivy League" mystique IMO.

What does that even mean? Is this a granola lefty loon joke 0.05% of the population will ever get?

Brown is rich preppy-ish hipster . . . the same vibe all the other Ivy kids are trying to cultivate and Brown is cultivating the aggressiveness the elite share. I really don't think the elite colleges have much unique character anymore; definitely not as much as they used to.

That's pathetic, because the elite doesn't give a damn about Brown.

Provide a solid education, like UMich, and stop this snobbish nonsense.

+1.

When you tried to hard to show off...the main thing that comes across is your inferiority complex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown is such a hippy-dippy liberal arts school for spoiled trust fund kids.

None of their faculty could ever do something like win a Nobel Prize in a field like Physics.

Lol. Emma Watson went there because it's so lame and the students are so dull.

[Anonymous]

Michigan is a party school for rich coastal kids who are shut out of the top 20. Everyone knows this. Brown is the Ivy cool kids go to when they can't get into HYP. Brown is a very hot school right now.