<p>Me is bored :/</p>
<p>I’m out of school now! Woo!</p>
<p>lucky beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetches lol</p>
<p>I wanna literally escape highschool</p>
<p>So…which other colleges are you guys into?</p>
<p>I’m interested in a bunch… mainly Carleton, Grinnell, Oberlin, Pomona, and Vassar.</p>
<p>I’m into all the above except Grinnell…too rural for me!</p>
<p>My main three at Brown, U of Chicago, and Columbia. Swarthmore is up there for me too.</p>
<p>I thought that Grinnell would be too rural for me as well, but I visited and found the town to be a decent size… it’s a small town certainly, and surrounded by cornfields, but it has all the essentials.</p>
<p>I think Bowdoin’s kinky as well. Visited and had a blast!</p>
<p>Hi! I’m an international from Estonia. 
I’m actually applying next year, but I’ve been lurking around this board for a while and I got tired of just watching the excitement, I want to be in the middle of it.
I’m in love with Brown as well, but I’m almost sure that I’m not going to get in :(</p>
<p>@Obstinate </p>
<p>just curious, what about these schools interest you? Brown and Columbia are total opposites.</p>
<p>Visiting Carleton and Macalester this week.
Also, now I’m interested in Wesleyan as well. I was somewhat interested in Whitman, but my parents said it was too far away, and I don’t care enough to fight them over applying there. :B</p>
<p>Well, for me it’s about academia vs. experience. I’m not sure if I could be in a tiny, rural LAC because that’d leave me too far from practicing my inteded major (Urban Studies). Brown and Columbia are one of few schools that have an Urban Studies major that don’t suck, heh.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, I read through the Core and it sounds pretty interesting. I would probably get tired of it just like everyone else, but it’d be interesting learning the classics. And computer science hopefully. Plus, I won’t be entirely cut off from reality and be able to see my teachings in a real-world setting.</p>
<p>I absolutely don’t like cores :/</p>
<p>I don’t like cores either. That’s part of the reason I love LACs. The others are pretty obvious- smaller classes and good English majors (my prospective major)- but I’d ditch that for Brown in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>I’m not opposed to the concept of a core - I’m not sure it’s right that I’m going to be graduating college having never taken chemistry, for example (I never took it in high school). Many cores are relatively unrestrictive and would be filled by a large percentage of Brown students anyways. At Brown, students generally take a variety of courses that end up achieving the same thing as a core - an open mind, the ability to approach problems from different directions, and so on. So keep an open mind to a core. (Parts of Columbia’s Core seem interesting to me, but the tedium would likely get to me after awhile. I’d also be more interested in reading those literary works in the original languages, which would achieve the same goal, I believe, just in a different way.)</p>
<p>I like the fact that Brown, even though it is a big research facility, it’s sort of a nice midpoint between LAC and research school. The university-college. It’s like there are plenty of real world opportunities but you also have caring professors who want you to learn and the small class sizes of LACs.</p>
<p>Another one I’m considering is Swarthmore, but then that’s in the middle of the suburbs. Ick. I’d go for U Penn, but…far too pre-professional. </p>
<p>My friend described Brown as “campy”. I like “campy”. Like summer camp but for college and in the city-ish. Yes!</p>
<p>Yes, campy is a purrfect way to describe Brown! It never occurred to me earlier :)</p>
<p>hey guys! fellow future brown EDer here…i have absolutely been in love with it for as long as i can remember ! my cousin just graduated from there and she has nothing but amazing things to say about it (obviously).
looking forward to freaking out with you all come december… :)</p>
<p>w00t, welcome aboard!</p>