I’m interested in Brown and was wondering if anyone could suggest similar schools. I like the open curriculum, size, and the “Brown bubble” while it’s still in a city.
Colgate, Bowdoin, Georgetown maybe
Vassar. Poughkeepsie’s kind of blah though. Maybe Hamilton, but not in a city.
Definitely not Colgate…
Wesleyan
Agree on adding Hamilton to mix.
Bates is like Brown in a lot of ways. Colgate is sort of the opposite. Bates might be the closest in NESCAC. Vassar most definitely.
The “bubble within a city” aspect of Brown is a tough one to replicate; so many potential matches are either soulless “cities within a city” or don’t really have towns that are proximate enough. Tufts comes close, but there, the city is more of a siren call than part of a bubble. Wesleyan and Middletown are close to striking the right balance. Maybe, Macalester (MN) and Wagner College (NY)?
Rice is “rus in urbe.”
Tufts and Wesleyan are common overlaps.
Vassar is quite similar. In fact, something both schools have in common is that all the students on both campuses applied to Brown.
Academically and culturally , Brown and Hamilton profile very similarly - that said, the settings are very distinct.
similar size and on edge of city: Rice, Tufts, Rochester, Wash U, Hopkins, Georgetown. The first two have a ton of overlap students.
open curriculum/liberal feel: wesleyan, oberlin, vassar, hamilton, bowdoin, bates
Huh?
Brown __ ~72% of enrolled students scored 1400-1600 on the SAT test.
Hamilton__ 26% …1400-1600 on the SAT test.
https://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/explore/admission-facts
https://www.hamilton.edu/admission/apply/standardized-testing-distribution-of-scores
@CrewDad, yes of the fully open curriculum LAC’s, Hamilton and Amherst (I missed that one) most closely profile to Brown - I think you had a fat finger error as the total enrolled above 1400 at Hamilton is 71%.
Also, while not perfectly correlated as Brown has a 29-32 bracket and Hamilton has a 28-30, the ACT results are very similar with 91% above a 29 at Brown and 93% above a 28 at Hamilton (with 75% above a 31, I think its pretty close).
Thanks for pulling up the only two schools that I am aware of that have been willing to publish the score distribution of enrolled students.
Here’s a link from a 2015 similar discussionhttp://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1782905-college-with-an-open-curriculum.html
According to the links in reply #12:
Enrolled students in the 1400-1600 SAT range (as a percentage of those for whom the SAT has been reported):
Brown: ~72%
Hamilton: ~70%
@Chembiodad 's characterization of these schools as having similar testing profiles (reply #10) comports well with these figures.
@Chembiodad - Are you looking at the site with an android device? There have been problems reading graphs on some of them. @CrewDad is correct.
@circuitrider : Reply #12 includes heterogeneously derived figures, and is wildly incorrect.
Fat finger indeed.
Brown SAT 1400-1600 73%
Yield 56%
Top 10th graduating class 92%
https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-research/sites/brown.edu.about.administration.institutional-research/files/uploads/Brown%20CDS_2016-2017_Final_1.pdf
Amherst SAT 1400-1600 68%
Yield 36%
Top 10th 87%
https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/C%2520Admission_0.pdf
Hamilton SAT 1400-1600 ~50%
Yield 24%
Top 10th 65%
https://www.hamilton.edu/documents/CDS_2016-2017.pdf
There are differences. 
ah, yeh-eh, Colgate.