<p>ok, so i have already applied to UMichigan and UChicago, and am working on apps for Yale, Northwestern, WashU, Swarthmore, and probably Carnegie Mellon. My stats (no, i do not feel the need to list them) are comparable to the stats of any of the ivy league schools. My problem: i suddenly really want to apply to Brown, even though i am a little turned off by a couple pages of their app. My parents don't want me to because they think i'm too top-heavy...but it just seems like such a great school. My question: would it be worth it to apply to Brown?</p>
<p>hey if you really like it and you don't apply, you'll be kicking yourself later, wondering if you had what it took to get in</p>
<p>what did you see it on the OC or something???</p>
<p>haha, jk,</p>
<p>if you love the school, you'd be a fool not to apply</p>
<p>I'm having the same debate in my mind. I visited over the summer, and wasn't thrilled with it, but I'm thinking that could've been due to a very large tour group, my arriving late for the tour, and being fed up with college visits. I'm hesitant to apply only because its application being kind of complicated. I probably won't get in anyway, but I'm thinking I'll just apply and see how it works out...</p>
<p>trust your intuition...works every time</p>
<p>I think that you could be a little too top heavy, just keep everything in mind, and be realistic. Being realistic is the most important thing. If you're confident about your chances and don't feel the need to ask people how much of a chance you have at Brown, which it seems you are, go ahead and apply.</p>
<p>I chose Michigan over Brown.</p>
<p>I visited campus and it just seemed arch-liberal and PC. I met several of the students there (there is a hotel on the top floor of one of their dorms and I walked down and introduced myself to some kids). One of the girls was hanging a gay rainbow pride flag from her room (not that there's anything wrong with that, but her room was all done up in triangles and rainbows -- it was a little over the top), and another was working on a paper on -- I kid you not -- how women in the US will never be treated equally until they rise up against men militarily. I thought she was joking, and she was less than pleased at my initial reaction.</p>
<p>I finally found three normal kids in one of the rooms and got to talking to them. Really nice, and well adjusted (and just a little bit drunk). It turned out two of them were from Harvard, however, and were only visiting their friend.</p>
<p>Long story short, I didn't see myself as fitting in too well with the students there.</p>
<p>Wow, one anecdote and meeting five people let you peer into the minds of 6000 Brown students. I'm impressed. Ever consider the fact that maybe the TWO Brown students you met weren't representative of the ENTIRE school? Most of the students I know here would laugh just as hard at that paper as you did.</p>
<p>Well, LawSchool, I'm sure you'll have a tough time getting in if your ignorance is as apparent in your app as it is in your posts.</p>
<p>If you want to apply to Brown go ahead, if you can spare the cost and the time to write the essays and the app. Besides that what do you have to lose?</p>
<p>What she did is perfectly normal, and, also, makes perfect sense. You have to go with your gut when choosing a school because a visit cannot give you the entire experience but you still have to base your decision on the information gathered while there. If she had met more people she would have considered them but given the circumstances she has to judge according to who she did meet.</p>
<p>Also, she met more than 5 students, she just gave 5 extreme examples. If your reading comprehension is always so terrible then YOU should be the one praying about your apps.</p>
<p>i wouldnt call it ignorance, the user was simply being realistic. </p>
<p>not everyone who goes to good schools is ultra-liberal.</p>
<p>Don't apply to Brown, you'll make it one personsworth harder for me to get in.</p>
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<p>But seriously, if you want to apply go for it.</p>
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<p>This was last year. I visited after I was in, but thank you for your concern.</p>
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<p>the only thing that image proves is that you suspiciously felt the need to authenticate your admission</p>
<p>"ignorance" is definitely one way of putting it. if that actually is the way you chose where to matriculate, i'd probably go with "immaturity" or "impetuousness"</p>
<p>How believable would you really trust it to be. She's not being defensive unreasonably. You guys are out and out attacking her for her statements, which are also reasonable given her experiences.</p>
<p>I suppose everyone is supposed to spend a week on campus and meet 100 kids during their visit? It is simply not often possible. There is no other logical way to make a decision given the information she had...</p>
<p>"Well, I met 20 kids, 5 were really crazy... there are 6,000 students... I guess some could be cool... but I know, definitely, that some are crazy."</p>
<p>How else would you process that? You're not going to risk spending 4 years somewhere against your instincts and intuition.</p>
<p>I echo everyone else in that if you really would want to go to Brown ... apply. Who knows, you might get lucky!</p>
<p>The the heck are you guys smoking. LawSchool had a gut instict and he went with it. Most of you would kill to get into Brown, and he turned it down. For most people, all it takes is one visit to a college to fall in love with it; well the same is true for the reverse. I don't think his entire decision was based solely on those students, but you have to admit that a charged environment is ever-prevalent.</p>
<p>*Edit: posted kinda late, but I agree with Aeggie.</p>
<p>i have a friend who turned down harvard and columbia for brown</p>
<p>he went to brown, and turned down PLME</p>
<p>and he's happy as could be.</p>
<p>he went with his gut, as hasn't regretted it. What better grounds can you make a decision on.</p>
<p>What?! That's crazy. Ignoring the facts that I do not know your friend at all and that sometimes, seemingly bad decisions can actually be good decisions... that was a terrible decision!</p>