<p>Even I would have never pegged this as so unanimous: [Three-quarters</a> of undergrads happy at Brown](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/three-quarters-of-undergrads-happy-at-brown-1.2546151]Three-quarters”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/three-quarters-of-undergrads-happy-at-brown-1.2546151)</p>
<p>‘transferred to Bowdoin College last year. He called Brown “extremely cliquey.”’</p>
<p>So the solution is to transfer to a tiny college in the woods where everyone will be forced to acknowledge your presence! I get what he means though, sometimes people don’t like talking to strangers at Brown, at least not randomly. If you’re with their friend, etc it’s fine.</p>
<p>^Knowing how the Herald does its polling, it may have lost a lot of the people who normally would answer very unhappy: who goes through JWW and answers a poll when they’ve got a ton of work left to get through. That being said… get me on a rare off day, and I’ll respond with mostly happy, and I imagine most of the 72% would be the same way. But yeah, typically people who go to Brown care about mroe than just academics, and I find those who are focused less on prestige and single-track “success” and more on doing what they want (which tends to be who Brown attracts), tend to be cheerier people. I’d argue the general happiness of the student body, while conducive to students staying generally happy, is at least as much a result of selection bias as the campus atmosphere itself.</p>