<p>Maybe she wasn’t 100% certain about what she wanted to be. The British system of courses gives you a much more specified education.
And maybe she wanted to have a longer college experience. 3 years vs. 4.</p>
<p>I would never choose Brown over Oxbridge, but I’m sort of biased against Brown in the first place.</p>
<p>ETA: Actually, I just looked at Wikipedia, and she’s quoted as saying just that. She wanted a “broad curriculum” that she couldn’t get at Cambridge (she applied there and one cannot apply to both Cambridge and Oxford).</p>
<p>She chose Brown over Yale too, which doesn’t mean that Brown is better.</p>