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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown is the one Ivy we attended with so much activity on the lawn and professors and current students coming over to chat.

My kid also did sports camps at 6 of the 8 Ivies the past 2 years.  Princeton and Brown were the two he liked the best.  Cornell and Columbia felt too big. Yale, like another pp said, didn't have as many students out and about having fun--hurrying around head down, wouldn't look you in the eye. Never made it up to Dartmouth. Harvard was Harvard. Penn he didn't like campus as much.[/quote]

Having kids milling on the yard, and attracting the most sociable, athletic kids compared to other Ivies, are two different things.  I’d say that Brown tends to attract a certain type and those kids are happy to be among their people, which is great.  I would not say they attract the most well rounded kids.[/quote]

We visited in the Fall and again this April.  Kids were playing all kinds of sports on the green and so many coming in and out of the athletic center.  The kids walking the campus were very athletic looking.

This is an observation from someone that toured recently while classes were in session.  We have visited a few other Ivies and Brown was one of the few with this much activity--and 'sporty' kids.  Granted- we didn't make it to Dartmouth--but pretty much toured all of the others at some point.[/quote]

I know a fair amount of kids currently attending Brown, and not one is sporty.  I would agree that the kids are more laid back and free spirited than kids at other Ivies.[/quote]

Hmmm.  The 3 from our HS are all playing a sport there next year. Lol. The two at our public attending were heavily into travel sports and high school sports.

I think your sampling is just that--your sampling.  I'm guessing there are plenty of all kinds.[/quote]

One in seven undergraduates participate in varsity sports teams. Brown has the second largest collegiate athletic program in the country, with 38 varsity teams, including 17 men's teams and 21 women's teams. [/quote]

And yet can’t think of one sport that Brown has good teams, even within the Ivy League.[/quote]

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