<p>By “lack of intellectualism”, do you mean that people didn’t look like “Ivy League intellectuals” in the traditional and stereotypical sense? </p>
<p>Brown’s students are intelligent – very intelligent – and they work hard, too. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be there. The student body is much different than, say, Yale or Harvard, in that it has less of the “Ivy League preppy” feel to it. They’re a little more Cal Berkeley, if I may.</p>
<p>These are, of course, generalizations. I just wanted to clear up any concerns that the student body is not intellectual.</p>
<p>Athletics12, how do you know you didnt get in??</p>
<p>peacelovensarah, its my bday on thursday as well. i have a feeling its going to be me worst birthday ever i findout about penn and hopefully brown then too. ughh</p>
<p>I called bc i already got an extension from wustl and didnt want to ask for another one. good luck, this year transfer applications have been REALLY high and there havent been as many spots as expected. That said, I did see an article a couple of months ago saying Brown was going to accept more transfers this year, so who knows…</p>
<p>though your consideration is kind, i don’t think i confused a lack of preppiness for a lack of (perceived) intellectualism. of course i met a lot of smart people; i just didn’t meet quite so many who were as excited about their work and classes as i might have hoped. this could just be a matter of who i happened to run into during my visit, but i thought the party culture seemed to curtail the academic culture somewhat.</p>
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<p>i do! because i go there, i think. i’m a first year at bard college, and i have met so many people here who, yes, indulge in certain pursuits of the night, but are also excited for personal research, pleasure reading, and class the next morning. characteristics include hipsterism, intensely referential humor, and an occasionally wearying obsession with irony. of course, “my haven” (as you aptly put it) is just that-- mine. i wouldn’t pretend to believe that bard is everyone’s haven. the only reason i am applying to transfer, if i’m laying it all out here (and i am), is that my parents have nudged me into the process because they worry that bard is not as famous as some other schools (it isn’t), and i thought brown was as close to bard as i could find while giving my parents what they wanted. so we’ll see! i am not really sure what to hope for at this point. not getting in means not having to make a decision, which is nice; getting in means having to decide how much prestige is worth to an education, which is hard.</p>
<p>my boyfriend goes to brown, and both he and his friends are incredibly intelligent. they party like any other school, but they work incredibly hard too. for example, last night into today he spent the hours of 1am-2pm (13 hours) working both on a project for an computers and music course and preparing for an engineering presentation.</p>
<p>i am transferring from a school whose student body centers their social scene heavily around greek life and social hierarchy, and i find brown’s social scene to be incredibly refreshing when i visit. at brown, students i’ve met are not focused on making connections with upperclassmen to be popular. many nights i’ve spent there, we’ve set up pong tables in the hallways (the resident coordinators don’t shut these down- they take guest shots) and haven’t even left the building all night, and it’s been a ridiculously good time. the people are extraordinarily nice. of course my boyfriend and his circle of friends don’t represent the entire brown student body, but this is a slice of life at brown that some of you may find useful.</p>
<p>this is also the reason i will not be transferring to brown if i am accepted. i have been offered admission at another top tier school and do not want to attend brown for the sole reason that my boyfriend attends (he was the one who wanted me to apply). good luck to everyone though and we’ll see what happens!</p>
<p>It’s kind of disheartening to hear people saying that they won’t attend if they are admitted, knowing that I’d kill to be able to attend. </p>
<p>QuirkyTurkey- Happy Birthday! Hopefully it will be a good birthday and we can both celebrate even more… crossing my fingers!!! I kind of don’t even want to check the mailbox until Friday, but I know I’ll be too tempted</p>
<p>Trust me, I understand that. Im currently on the waitlist for my first choice school and it bothers me so much that people applied who probably already knew they wouldn’t go. </p>
<p>In the defense of those people, however, in applying to only one school-your dream school- you run the risk of being disappointed. Especially with transfer students. </p>
<p>I may call tomorrow just because I have a deadline for a college I’ve been accepted to and need to make a decision quickly.</p>
<p>i actually didn’t make this decision until i was admitted to the school i plan on attending in the fall, when i realized that that school fit me much better as an individual. brown is fabulous and anyone who is admitted is very lucky. but i do see where you’re coming from.</p>
<p>it should be good news to anyone who is waitlisted, though!</p>
<p>I think I’m gonna call tomorrow to find out my decision. Is there anything specific those of you who called in to hear your decisions said to get them to release the decision over the phone?</p>
<p>So they are not posting the results online and we have to call in? Are they mailing to our permenant res. or our alternate address? I hope it is to the alternate otherwise I will wait for very long, maybe I’ll just call.</p>
<p>i just called and she wouldn’t give me my admission status even though I have a letter from another school. She was just like- letters go out tomorrow. So…I dunno, maybe other people were more persistant?</p>
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