<p>Brown over Cornell, Georgetown, Williams, Swarthmore, Tufts and Vassar... </p>
<p>I'm still on columbia's waitlist but thinking of taking brown over columbia even if it comes through now...</p>
<p>I find the Yale/Brown cross applicant pool to be rather strange....I visited Yale and did not like it at all (the people/atmosphere is soo different) but I am in love with Brown.</p>
<p>I agree with you ader.. I love brown (going there) and hated yale. I think Brown and Princeton match more closely with applicants for some reason. It did for me at least.</p>
<p>actually, princeton and brown don't really compete for applicants nearly as much as brown and harvard or brown and yale. this might be due to the whole "new england ivy" thing, the fact that harvard and yale are closer on the political spectrum to brown, or any number of things. also, people who get into harvard and princeton are much more likely to choose those schools over brown than people who get into yale and brown.</p>
<p>my impresion is that the brown-yale crossover is quite common (this is from personal experience on campus--not common admits). personally, i had a very hard time deciding between these two because i thought the cultures at both places were very similar--both seemed liberal, fun-loving but intellectual, romantic, existential and artsy.</p>
<p>Yale is richer! :P</p>
<p>I spoke with more than a few Yale/Brown admits (I am one myself)...most were leaning towards Yale...this is, of course, just from personal experience. I saw upsides and downsides to both places but have ultimately chosen Yale ($ and opportunities). Brown was my dream school before I was accepted to Yale and I'm going to miss spending college in a great place like Providence. (Darn Brown for not matching Yale's fin. aid...I wish I hadn't had to take that into account!)</p>
<p>Yale was my top choice, and I applied EA. After Yale came Wesleyan and Haverford (and as time passed, Haverford turned into Vassar). I was deferred from Yale EA and then rejected RD. Regarding Brown, I was so not expecting to get in that I hadn't really thought about it until I got the letter. I know that Yale is tougher than Brown in general, but I had a few small boosts at Yale (EA, some connections with professors who put in a good word). I really wasn't expecting to get into Yale either, but I think that I had two huge reach schools (Brown and Yale), and I chose my favorite of the two, and then I sort of ignored the other one because it seemed so unlikely.</p>