<p>No one can make any suggestions if we don’t know what YOU are looking for in a school. They are both good schools that are basically good in almost every subject they offer but what are you looking to study? What are your thoughts on Ithaca vs. Providence? What are you looking for in your social life? Are you comfortable with the Open Curriculum at Brown and the responsibility/freedom that it entails? </p>
<p>But before you get to that I do want to preface that while both these schools are need-blind for domestic applicants, they are not for international applicants meaning you are at a disadvantage if you need aid. I don’t really know your academic stats but a 2000 on the SAT makes Cornell/Brown a reach for a domestic applicant but for an international applicant just your SAT score alone makes it a reach. Then again, I haven’t seen the rest of your stats (EC’s do matter also), so I can’t make any predictions.</p>