<p>So which schools are you turning down for Brown?</p>
<p>Cornell, UMich Ann Arbor, UChicago, BostonU, and maybe Swarthmore.</p>
<p>If I get in, everything.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Harvard, Duke, U of C, Gtown, Hopkins...</p>
<p>Wow, turning down Harvard. I commend you for your willpower on that one.</p>
<p>I see nothing unusual at all about turning down Harvard for Brown. I did the same thing, and I am married to a Harvard grad. People underestimate how prestigious Brown is with the "right" people. Who cares that your auto mechanic doesn't know about Brown. If you have the academic goods to be competitive for a place like Brown, you won't be asking him for a job anyway.
And Brown is right there with Harvard as a gateway to the best professional and graduate schools. We have a May/June 1993 Harvard Magazine in our home that referenced, on page 72 the schools Harvard considers its "peers". Those schools mentioned in the article, in the order delineated were:
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Brown
Stanford
Dartmouth
Cornell
Penn
That's it. As you can see, Brown was right there. It is true Brown loses the majority of common admits to Harvard, but Brown is one of the few none merit scholarship schools that takes a few students from Harvard, and, to be candid, and my wife agrees, many of them would have had a far better undergraduate experience had they chosen Brown over Harvard.</p>
<p>nicely put pinderhughes</p>
<p>Just not all that impressed with Brown academics from personal experience, I guess. You make of it what you make of it. I feel like all the Ivies are that way.</p>
<p>If I go, I'll be turning down Cornell, Chicago, and Hopkins. Yeah, not that impressive, haha.</p>
<p>strangely enough, harvard's "peers" happen to be the ivies plus mit and stanford. not that surprising.</p>
<p>What about Columbia? Did it/you purposely leave them out?</p>
<p>Columbia is obviously one of Harvard's peers, I just mistakenly left it out.</p>
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<p>lol, same thing here.</p>