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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the argument that there’s no department in the top 10 is silly, too, but for a slightly different reason. Having strong, but maybe not tippy-top, departments across the board is more enriching to the undergrad experience than excelling in a single department or two. While CalTech and Juliard excel in STEM and music, respectively, and both are incredibly hard to get into, neither provides the broad-based “universal” education that’s available at other “universities” like Brown.

I have to disagree with you that there’s no difference in development cases, though. Where Brown is different is in the push to attract celeb kids in particular. Sure, Harvard took the Kushners, and there’s no way anybody could defend that, but the Kushners are relative unknowns and the impetus seems to have been their money. Plus Harvard wasn’t waving flags saying, hey, we’ll make it easy for you by not requiring heavy-duty cores or STEM  distributional requirements. [b]There’s a lingering snobbery about how JFK, Jr, one of Brown’s first famous kids, ended up at Brown because he wasn’t going to make it at Harvard. [/b][/quote]

I don't think any teens know or care about JFK Jr, let alone where he went to college 30 years ago. A lot has changed in the last few decades. Two rich party girls we know just graduated from Brown — they're now in medical school.[/quote]

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