<p>Columbia. Brown second.</p>
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True, but let’s be honest: outside of CC, the most common answer would probably be Columbia.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s because I lived right outside of NYC my whole life, but Columbia never held the “mystique” of other top schools in my hometown.</p>
<p>I wonder which I would have picked, even over HYP…</p>
<p>why would anyone want to go to brown, even if the only other choice was community college?</p>
<p>seriously, what’s so good about brown?</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ Don’t be ridiculous. There’s no reason to be inflammatory.</p>
<p>I just want to know what’s so good about brown</p>
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<p>■■■■■ alert.</p>
<p>what’s so good about Brown? let’s see, always one of the most selective colleges on an annual basis, elite student body, always ranks in the top 5 nationally in princeton review’s categories for “quality of life” and “happiest students” (e.g. not a cut-throat atmosphere), not dominated by a large / majority grad student population (e.g. H / Y / Penn / Columbia / Cornell), absolutely great college setting (not too remote (e.g. Cornell/Dart), not dominated by a huge city (Columbia/Penn), consistently a top feeder into the elite grad schools (e.g. Harvard Law School and Yale Law School) and finally, the statistic which really speaks for itself – one which come directly from the applicant pool –> Brown has the most cross applicants with HYPSM applicants (outside of HYPSM itself) – guess those students know something you don’t.</p>
<p>so, recapping:</p>
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<li>great student body</li>
<li>great quality of life</li>
<li>great campus</li>
<li>great post-grad opportunities</li>
<li>top notch academics with a LAC-like atmosphere / focus on undergrads rivaled only by Princeton and Dartmouth (e.g. every Brown professor is required to teach an undergrad class – you can’t say that at Harvard or Yale)</li>
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<p>the question isn’t why would you want to go to Brown, it’s why WOULDN’T you want to go there.</p>
<p>you’ve obviously got an agenda (perhaps you are a brown reject), but please, brown is one of the most sought after schools in the nation and with very good reason.</p>
<p>nope. I’m still in highschool, and I will definitely not apply to brown.</p>
<p>I have no idea why I hate brown so much as I’ve said before.</p>
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uh… okay… sure.</p>
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I’m just expressing my opinion. There’s nothing wrong with that. If i were trying to ■■■■■, I’d’ve made a new account.</p>
<p>I dunno, but brown seems to be the least attractive ivy to me. Its international ranking shows that.</p>
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<p>“rankings” that is what you are basing your views on?</p>
<p>again here is some food for thought:</p>
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<li>Brown has the most cross applicants with HYPSM applicants (outside of HYPSM itself)</li>
<li>The Revealed Preferences study ranked Brown no. 7 nationally and the most desirable Ivy after HYP.</li>
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<p>you have to ask yourself what the top students internationally and nationally know that you don’t.</p>
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<p>That’s not really going to help, as I don’t know what I don’t know. That’s why I’m asking you guys.</p>
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I’m very sure you do too, to a certain extent. I’m not saying I base everything on rankings, though. It’s ranked high in the US, and it’s part of the ivy league, yet I don’t feel it’s attractive at all.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with rankings. Everyone is effectively making their own rankings when they have their college lists, their dream schools, their safeties etc.</p>
<p>I just want to know some of the better qualities of brown, something specific, not just oh, it has a great ____ and great _____ and it’s great at _____.</p>
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proof please</p>
<p>EDIT: oh, and appearantly everything good about brown you’ve brought up is from rankings.</p>
<p>Brown, even over HYP</p>
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<p>there is a clear difference between an academic study like the Revealed Preferences study and a ranking published by a “for-profit” publication like USNEWS.</p>
<p>as for the cross-applicant data, give me some time to post a link</p>
<p>also, let’s keep the running tally in the following format if possible (updated)</p>
<p>Penn - 11
Brown - 9
Dartmouth - 8
Cornell - 6
Columbia - 4</p>
<p>Penn is king now! nice.</p>
<p>Penn - 12
Brown - 9
Dartmouth - 8
Cornell - 6
Columbia - 4</p>
<p>^^“King” of what? King of opinions on this thread? That’s a pretty tiny kingdom.</p>
<p>username, haven’t I discussed this with you elsewhere? Why don’t you go do searches of my posts on the Brown forum and read around there a bit since you clearly don’t know anything, good or bad about the school, to justify your self-admitted irrational hate.</p>
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<p>lol. get mad, it’s amusing.</p>
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Interestingly, that’s the main thing I did NOT like about Brown. While some of its buildings were attractive in themselves (e.g. Robinson), taken as a whole the campus seemed extremely small and cramped.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, then Cornell. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Cornell!</p>
<p>Wow, check out all the Penn love.</p>
<p>I, also, would choose Penn.</p>