4 brave Brown student journalists write a scathing investigative story in the Providence Journal on Feb 24.
Reality behind the University press releases …troubling facts revealed in a leading newspaper. http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/ProJo/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TPJ%2F2019%2F02%2F24&entity=Ar00103&sk=E9EC6152&mode=text
I wish this could lessen my love for Brown… At least then my incoming rejection wouldn’t hurt so much haha. Honestly though, all of the Ivies have elitist events like this. It’s par for the course and while my family doesn’t even meet the astonishing median 200k income, I’m not personally bothered by it. After all, if everything were fair, life wouldn’t be interesting.
Wow, the author is a freshman.
I know this dinner thing is getting a lot of press, but it wouldn’t nearly as big of a deal if Brown was honest about it. The issue is that they’re displaying hypocritical actions, not the dinner itself.
I agree that the administration should just be forthright. With that said this is where the money goes…
https://brunonia.brown.edu/giving/browntogether/info/brown-promise
https://news.brown.edu/articles/2019/01/athleticsfundraising
https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/brown-university-announces-100-million-diversity-initiative
FYI OP has some sort of vendetta against the school. Look it up 11 posts all targeted at casting shade on Brown. Always wondered what Amy Carter (President Carters kid who got expelled from Brown) was up to :)>-
The author conveniently overlooks all the generosity of the host to Brown and it’s students and focuses on one event for her own purposes. Get used to it … the elite will always exist and help each other as well as giving vast sums to improve the lives of countless individuals. And all schools need some percentage full pay students…they can’t give full financial aid to 100% of their students. And who else is going to help pay for new buildings, scholarships, professor endowments etc…?
@VPA2019 here are a few examples of the generosity you appropriately mention. Also not mentioned is the ability of all students regardless of socio economic status to enjoy and benefit from these facilities. In addition, this generosity has served to provid accessibility to Brown for socio economically disadvantaged students via the Brown Promise.
https://arts.brown.edu/granoff-center
http://www.brownrisdhillel.org/building.html
Poorly handled and bad PR sure. Scandalous I think not. People of great wealth networking is hardly unique to Brown. When considering the story in totality it is only fair to do so juxtaposed against the benefit received by all Brown students across the socio economic spectrum.
She (Amy Carter) had an excuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Carter#Activism
It says she ended up getting a BFA from the Memphis College of Art and a master’s degree in art history from Tulane.
How happy is brown that that FBI investigation broke shortly after this?
Two interesting articles related to this but not exactly the same dinner party story -
Looks like some things are changing, though.
This is pretty crazy…
I think it’s possible to acknowledge Granoff’s generosity, and the tone deaf nature of these dinners at the same time. All that’s missing is someone tossing pieces of cake out the restaurant window to the “lesser” student types thronging outside on the street.
About the applicants meeting with faculty…this was probably the most ironic to me. DD took Brown off her list immediately after the tour. The only building we set foot in on the official your was the chapel. We did not see a classroom, a dorm, dining hall, student center, or (most disappointing to DD) the library. We stood across the street as the guide told us about the library. After we left, we had a vague impression of an iron gate, several quads with some questionable art work (giant blue gummy bear anyone?) and the exteriors of stone buildings. Probably the worst tour we took.
This is a whole lot of nothing.
@gudmom, didn’t the tour start in the student center? We also did a science tour they offered right after the main tour and saw chem labs and the science building and library, as well as a great tour through the old engineering building.
We had to leave our tour a bit early for it but it was headed into the dining hall when we did. Also, I love the art on the quads, from the slavery monument, to the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and yes, even Bluno, who is there temporarily. Also, the libraries are open during normal times and you can just go in them.
They don’t show you the dorms for good reason 
When DS and I visited, the group of prospective freshman was so large that they randomly split them up between the student center and the chapel. We ended up in the chapel where a not very informative info session took place. After that, a tour. As was the case with Gudmom, we didn’t enter a single building. It was pouring rain to boot. The whole thing was like amateur hour. My sense was that Brown didn’t feel any need to sell itself to prospective students. Given Brown’s acceptance rate, it’s probably correct about that too.
@Postmodern De gustibus non est disputandem
I am glad you enjoyed your tour; between my older two, we toured 15+ campuses, and Brown’s tour was hands-down the worst and least informative. In our experience.
@Gudmom , there was no dispute, not sure why you thought there was. Sorry if I offended you in some way.