ADVICE: Stanford EA or Columbia or Brown ED?

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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>So putting aside my stats and "chances of getting in," I was wondering if I could get some advice on which school I should apply early to for admittance into the class of 2017. The three that I've found myself most taken with are Stanford, Columbia, and Brown.</p>

<p>A little bit about myself to give some perspective...</p>

<p>-I love traveling and being around people of different cultures/backgrounds. It's definitely important for me to go to a school with a significant international population.
-I'm pretty into sports and hope to play club soccer and tennis.
-My prospective majors are international relations, political science, biology, and/or neuroscience (i know all three of these schools offer one or more of these in some form or another so that's not TOO much of an issue).
-I hope to be able to double major with a social science and biological science or at least do a social science major with a pre-med track
-I do enjoy being in a city-like environment, but I feel like I can put that wish aside until grad school if I have to.
-I want to be part of an intellectual environment (which I'm sure I would get at any of these schools) but also want to have a good social life and be able to go out without feeling too stressed about it. </p>

<p>So, if you guys could give me your opinions on which school you think I should go for and why, I would really appreciate it! Thanks so much.</p>

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<p>If there is no clear winner for where you’ll apply ED, why even apply ED? </p>

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<p>Is this for next year? It doesn’t matter though so get rid of brown and go to either Stanford or Columbia they are comparable academically and prestige wise so it comes down to what you want. Tough decision though. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Have you visited the schools? My son had wanted to apply ED to Brown, it sounded perfect on paper and increase admit rate sounded great. His counselor discouraged him restricting his choices by applying there ED so he did not. We visited after all the applications were done and he an I were both shocked at how this school did not live up to his dreams. We were both so happy he had not done ED there.</p>