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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Brown, consider other colleges with an open curriculum - Wesleyan, Vassar, Smith, Grinnell, etc.
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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, [b]there's a big difference between top 1% and top 3%[/b].  [/quote]

No idea if that’s true or not. Top 1% of what?  And how do you know that difference is present between Brown and the other schools?  I’m extremely skeptical that Brown or any other Ivy makes admissions decisions based on information processing speed.  Students don’t submit a battery of psych-ed tests with their applications, and neither SAT nor GPA tests that.[/quote]

Cognitively there's a difference between 99th percentile and 97 percentile.  Even if you have no idea, I think you'll agree Einstein and Newton are on a different level than the run-of-the-mill geniuses. [/quote]

This is poorly reasoned. Newton and Einstein were once in several-lifetime geniuses. The top 1% at the tippy top schools are NOT going to consist of Einsteins and Newtons. You're talking about tens of thousands of kids who scored very well on SATs, and probably more, since scores can easily waver by 30-50 points from test to test. (I.e., some kids might get 1580 on on sitting but 1530 on another.) There is no substantive overall difference in the student body between the kids who end up at Harvard and those who end up at Brown. [/quote]

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