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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown has really benefitted from being in the Ivy League.  It was always thought of as perhaps the poorest of the Ivy League schools.  The halo effect of the Ivy League has helped them with admissions and they have made up some ground on building up their endowment.[/quote]

You are misinformed, and you did not read even this thread, let alone do research, before you saw fit to comment.  The post at 06/29/2021 12:13 has an article from the NY Times completely disproving your from-the-backside theory.[/quote]

That boost in admissions was the product of John F. Kennedy, Jr.  It was pre-USNWR.  I don't know how he ended up at Brown, but I don't think he was the best student and other schools like Harvard (where his father and sister matriculated) may not have been an option.

https://pagesix.com/2017/10/09/jackie-worked-hard-to-keep-jfk-jr-from-flunking-college-classes/

My comment was not specifically on the number of applicants to Brown in 1983.  I was about the schools financial situation and how it was viewed vs. the other Ivy League schools.

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Spin, makes excuses and backpedal if you must, but not only do you have no evidence for your claims of either post, that article directly contradicts your original claim and you know it.  Just admit you were wrong.  It's not hard to do.[/quote]

Nitwits who talk s*** about Brown, Cornell and/or Dartmouth on message forums could never get into an Ivy. And they've almost certainly never been to these colleges, which are in fairly obscure towns. It's such a public k-12 / state university thing -- and perhaps a Northwestern / UChicago striver parent thing -- to take potshots at a "low" Ivy. They make it incredibly obvious they don't understand the Ivy League ethos, traditions, or a private college experience in general. :roll: [/quote]

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