Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.
Pretty spot on. We all know why grubby dcum social climbing strivers obsess over Brown: They think their kid will meet & marry some blue blood rich peer. They won't, of course. Those kids might sometimes do drugs and booze with your kids in college, but they don't marry random DMV proles. Your kid won't truly fit in, nobody in your social circle will care they go to Brown, and odds are they will return home weird and unmotivated. And your family lacks the money to support a layabout creative. Or they'll get the same boring 9-5 job they could have had if they went to UMD like half of their high school.
This is weird and says way more about its author than it does about Brown
Brown is not this gilded carefree campus like the weirdo tiger moms on here envision. If you're a boarding school or big 3 rich teen who will have a network of baked in friends there, sure, try to get in. But for random public school kids with creepy status obsessed parents who've memorized the US News rankings, it is not going to change their life. Most normal people have never even heard of Brown. Even those who know of it, nobody cares. Complete waste of money to those not sitting on mega millions.
Most schools, including those at the very top, don't change the lives of the people, unless they are very good (and lucky). This said, Brown does permit students to cruise through and so increases the changes that you goof off into mediocrity.
Oh do give it a break. You're not entertaining anyone and no one is fooled.
Anonymous wrote:I wish this had happened for this year.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.
Pretty spot on. We all know why grubby dcum social climbing strivers obsess over Brown: They think their kid will meet & marry some blue blood rich peer. They won't, of course. Those kids might sometimes do drugs and booze with your kids in college, but they don't marry random DMV proles. Your kid won't truly fit in, nobody in your social circle will care they go to Brown, and odds are they will return home weird and unmotivated. And your family lacks the money to support a layabout creative. Or they'll get the same boring 9-5 job they could have had if they went to UMD like half of their high school.
This is weird and says way more about its author than it does about Brown
Brown is not this gilded carefree campus like the weirdo tiger moms on here envision. If you're a boarding school or big 3 rich teen who will have a network of baked in friends there, sure, try to get in. But for random public school kids with creepy status obsessed parents who've memorized the US News rankings, it is not going to change their life. Most normal people have never even heard of Brown. Even those who know of it, nobody cares. Complete waste of money to those not sitting on mega millions.
Most schools, including those at the very top, don't change the lives of the people, unless they are very good (and lucky). This said, Brown does permit students to cruise through and so increases the changes that you goof off into mediocrity.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.
Pretty spot on. We all know why grubby dcum social climbing strivers obsess over Brown: They think their kid will meet & marry some blue blood rich peer. They won't, of course. Those kids might sometimes do drugs and booze with your kids in college, but they don't marry random DMV proles. Your kid won't truly fit in, nobody in your social circle will care they go to Brown, and odds are they will return home weird and unmotivated. And your family lacks the money to support a layabout creative. Or they'll get the same boring 9-5 job they could have had if they went to UMD like half of their high school.
This is weird and says way more about its author than it does about Brown
Brown is not this gilded carefree campus like the weirdo tiger moms on here envision. If you're a boarding school or big 3 rich teen who will have a network of baked in friends there, sure, try to get in. But for random public school kids with creepy status obsessed parents who've memorized the US News rankings, it is not going to change their life. Most normal people have never even heard of Brown. Even those who know of it, nobody cares. Complete waste of money to those not sitting on mega millions.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ah. There goes our kid's plan to apply TO to Brown in Fall 2024
Same here. Very disappointing.
Anonymous wrote:Ah. There goes our kid's plan to apply TO to Brown in Fall 2024
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.
Pretty spot on. We all know why grubby dcum social climbing strivers obsess over Brown: They think their kid will meet & marry some blue blood rich peer. They won't, of course. Those kids might sometimes do drugs and booze with your kids in college, but they don't marry random DMV proles. Your kid won't truly fit in, nobody in your social circle will care they go to Brown, and odds are they will return home weird and unmotivated. And your family lacks the money to support a layabout creative. Or they'll get the same boring 9-5 job they could have had if they went to UMD like half of their high school.
This is weird and says way more about its author than it does about Brown
Brown is not this gilded carefree campus like the weirdo tiger moms on here envision. If you're a boarding school or big 3 rich teen who will have a network of baked in friends there, sure, try to get in. But for random public school kids with creepy status obsessed parents who've memorized the US News rankings, it is not going to change their life. Most normal people have never even heard of Brown. Even those who know of it, nobody cares. Complete waste of money to those not sitting on mega millions.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.
Pretty spot on. We all know why grubby dcum social climbing strivers obsess over Brown: They think their kid will meet & marry some blue blood rich peer. They won't, of course. Those kids might sometimes do drugs and booze with your kids in college, but they don't marry random DMV proles. Your kid won't truly fit in, nobody in your social circle will care they go to Brown, and odds are they will return home weird and unmotivated. And your family lacks the money to support a layabout creative. Or they'll get the same boring 9-5 job they could have had if they went to UMD like half of their high school.
This is weird and says way more about its author than it does about Brown
Brown is not this gilded carefree campus like the weirdo tiger moms on here envision. If you're a boarding school or big 3 rich teen who will have a network of baked in friends there, sure, try to get in. But for random public school kids with creepy status obsessed parents who've memorized the US News rankings, it is not going to change their life. Most normal people have never even heard of Brown. Even those who know of it, nobody cares. Complete waste of money to those not sitting on mega millions.
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully it will come this month. I doubt they'll make a change if they don't do it soon. But take the test if you are on the fence. The vast majority of accepted students last year submitted test scores.