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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]

Yes, but Ivy admissions are not based entirely, or even primarily, on top intelligence--witness all the kids with perfect gpas and test scores who don't get in, and the athletes, legacies, urm, first-gen, and children of the very rich and famous that do (some also with top 1% stats, to be sure). And guess where the rest of the 99th percentile go to college? It's not as clear cut in reality as it is in your head.[/quote]

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