Similar schools to Brown and others

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Anonymous wrote:Oberlin
Vassar
Wesleyan
Grinnell
Carleton
Skidmore
Sarah Lawrence
Reed
Kenyon

Whatever you do, visit colleges. I'm seeing some threads here recently about not visiting colleges until after acceptances (if at all) and I think that's short-sighted. Better to create a smaller but really well-researched list, and then visit before you apply to the ones that truly seem like they have potential. On paper, Sarah Lawrence looked very interesting and attractive academically, for instance, but visiting turned my DC off it immediately despite having a good friend who was already there. Not dissing SLC (the friend loves it there), it just was a place where visiting in person made a huge difference. Same could be true at any of the above schools.

Here’s an interesting article on the pros and cons of college visits:

http://www.koppelmangroup.com/blog/2022/3/28/ultimate-guide-to-in-person-college-campus-visits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to our college consultant, Brown, Rice and Amherst have a similar culture.

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Anonymous wrote:My child said Pomona feels very similar to Brown

LOL does your child go to both schools?

She picked Yale but went to Brown and Pomona admitted student days

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yeah good answer. Burn to the LOL poster. burn burn burn

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Wesleyan

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Pomona

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which schools share similar culture?
For e.g. which schools share the same culture as Brown?
For e.g. Duke shares somewhat of a similar culture like NU.
U Chicago with Caltech?
UT with Upitt?

I’ve been to Wash. U., and at a summer program at Wash. U.

Obviously: The person who says Wash. U. is not prestigious and that people who liked going there has a point, and all that, but I think STEM classes and students might be pretty comparable there.

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Anonymous wrote:Many who apply to Brown also apply to Tufts.

No

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Anonymous wrote:For Brown, consider other colleges with an open curriculum - Wesleyan, Vassar, Smith, Grinnell, etc.

Brown has more in common with other ivy pluses such as Yale, Columbia, Harvard, MIT than wesleyan's, Smith, or grinnel. In terms of information processing, there's a big difference between top 1% and top 3%.

This^.

No, not this. College cohorts don’t work like a waterfall. Ivies+ don’t fill up their class with 99th percentile and then the next tier universities get the 98th and then Wesleyan, Smith, Grinnell etc get the 97th. Colleges don’t even measure processing speed in their applicants, so PP was just talking out of their @$$.

You obviously never went to an ivy plus or have a kid at one.

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NP That claim does not move the conversation. The very wide dispersion at the top colleges shows that college admissions are not a waterfall.

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Anonymous wrote:NP That claim does not move the conversation. The very wide dispersion at the top colleges shows that college admissions are not a waterfall.

Not saying all top 1% end up at ivy pluses and cascade down from there. Generally speaking, I believe they were - at least when they considered SAT or ACT. The lower tier schools are generally filled with lower percentile kids.

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You don't know the data. Top schools are not all 1%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't know the data. Top schools are not all 1%.

Brown's middle 50 percent of admitted students scored between 1480 and 1560 on the SAT.

1480 is in the 99th percentile.

Do the same for Grinnel. It's definitely lower.

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Anonymous wrote:Many who apply to Brown also apply to Tufts.

No

Why no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many who apply to Brown also apply to Tufts.

No

Hahaha I think the one insane UVA booster now has a kid at Tufts.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't know the data. Top schools are not all 1%.

Brown's middle 50 percent of admitted students scored between 1480 and 1560 on the SAT.

1480 is in the 99th percentile.

Do the same for Grinnel. It's definitely lower.


What is the difference between 25 an 75 at Brown? How many students applying to Brown above the 25th percentile were turned down in favor of lower scoring students?

Answers: Brown could fill its class with the top 25%--but they don't. Hell-probably top5%. Why? Brown finds other points attractive. Athletics, celebrity, URM.