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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My good friend at work went the Brown and I went to Wesleyan.

We are doctors, so we kept going to school for a long time after college. As a result I rarely think about college since I feel much more “connected” to my residency and fellowship programs.

However, my friend and I reminisce about undergrad all the time because our experiences were so similar - academically and socially. Wes and Brown have a lot of the same little annoyances, too. Both of us are still very very liberal, but some of the things we did and said in the name of political correctness were just funny in hindsight.

One difference is that Brown sounds like it had more wealthy and famous/well-connected students than Wes (as would be expected). For what it’s worth, there’s no real difference in intelligence between us, though :) [/quote]

I think you have more to prove than your brown friend.  He also had easier time getting to where he is. Brown has the "wow" factor most schools don't have.[/quote]

My point was that - in my personal experience - Wes is indeed very similar to Brown.

I guess I might have “more to prove” if I were straight out of undergrad. And medicine is a long slog - it’s not “easy” for any of us. However, we ended up in the same place professionally, and no one cares where the heck we went to undergrad anymore.

It’s just great fun to talk to my friend about the really strong similarities between our undergrad experiences (it probably helps that my friend from Brown is really smart and fun with a great sense of humor!) - our coworkers who went to UCLA, UVA, and other private universities (ie Duke) had very different undergrad experiences.[/quote]

I've heard the same story from a community college grad who eventually became an account working along side with more "prestigious" state university accountants.  Wes is a good school. No one thinks it is a Brown peer. [/quote]

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