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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown just seems cooler than most of the other Ivies (my unhooked kid was accepted ED). Penn is huge, full of strivers, and at the admissions visit they described the school as a "mid-sized Ivy League school" 15x. Harvard and Princeton are ultra-elitist, and really play that up; Yale to a lesser extent. Dartmouth is a rural LAC with a huge Greek system, and Cornell is as big as a state school and very pre-professional. Of course half of HYP kids end up at soul-killing lucrative jobs in finance and consulting; there's a ton of peer pressure to do that sort of thing. Brown seems elite but not elitist, and far fewer students feel forced into finance, cs, consulting and so on. Above all, it just seems like a school that knows what it is and is comfortable being what it is: it is not trying to be Harvard or Princeton, and it doesn't play up its status as an Ivy league institution. The kids seem happy and love being there. Only Yale seems to have a little bit of the same feel, though it is more exclusive and elitist.[/quote]

My DD chose Brown over Yale last year for these reasons. She loves it and knows she made the right choice.[/quote]

Sounds awfully self-serving since the “reasons” are neither compelling nor well articulated.  Few students would turn down Yale for Brown. [/quote]

Hmm. Maybe you and other striver-ey parents should follow her wisdom. She said that it isn't a competition to get into and go to the most selective school that she can. That her goal is to find where she thinks she will be the most happy-- the school that provides most of what she is looking for. For her, being at a school that demonstrates collaborative learning vs. a competitive atmosphere was important, as she wanted a school filled with super smart kids but that didn't feel elitist. She is certainly not the only kid who had the option of both and chose Brown. She did like Yale, she just didn't like it as much as Brown.[/quote]

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