Viewbook

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<p>It’s been awhile now - has ANYBODY received their viewbook from Brown?</p>

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<p>Not yet.
Ugh.</p>

<p>I think Brown knows that the viewbook isn’t gonna make or break someone’s decision to apply to Brown.</p>

23

<p>i still havent gotten one</p>

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<p>They sent me one and I didn’t even request it. The pictures in it are quite beautiful, but it’s kind of disgusting to realize that you’re reading about how wonderful the college is, and just how badly you want to go there, but theres only a slim chance that you’ll make it.</p>

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<p>Didn’t get one here yet either . . .</p>

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<p>I received mine last Thursday. It contained some pictures and interesting students from Brown.</p>

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<p>DS finally got his, and it’s pretty inspiring reading! It makes me want to go back to school!</p>

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<p>These are sent from Providence, right? You would think Mass. would have gotten 'em by now…</p>

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<p>i always thought this picture should go in the brown viewbook</p>

<p>Brown: This is How we do</p>

<p>lol</p>

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<p>I got it! All the kids in CA did I’m pretty sure.</p>

<p>Ira Glass went to Brown?!? <em>drool</em></p>

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<p>I just got mine two days ago. It’s a giant book o__o</p>

<p>oh yeah, and I’m in CA</p>

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<p>Hey maybe their sending them by state, in alphabetical order. That would make sense why the CA kids have gotten them, but not people in MA or NC (like me). Just a thought.</p>

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<p>^ Most likely, the viewbooks were mailed directly from where they were printed. There’s no point in printing them in another state, sending all of the viewbooks to Providence first and then mailing them to everyone from RI.</p>

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<p>I actually have to agree with modestmelody’s comment on the first page though…</p>

<p>I am kind of disappointed with Brown’s viewbook. First viewbook I’ve gotten that has discouraged me from applying, though I still am applying. Website was much better and other viewbooks did much better in the presentation of info.</p>

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<p>I requested one a couple days ago, and then it came like two days later. :)</p>

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<p>Whereas Stanford’s and Yale’s viewbook are very wordy and informative, I feel that Brown’s tries instead to communicate the personality of the school. </p>

<p>I feel like the 2 other aforementioned schools’ viewbooks didn’t have much personality at all, and were well-executed but generic. Brown’s made me smile.</p>

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<p>why do i still not have one lol…brown doesn’t love me</p>

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<p>really? haha brown’s website made me smile. Brown’s viewbook made me sad. lol there’s not much more to it than that. I guess I just like informative viewbooks then…</p>

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<p>Well I guess my experience is from visiting the schools before getting their materials in the mail. When I saw Yale and Brown, more information was thrown at me than I could possibly use. From the visits and websites, I knew all the factual stuff already, but neither website is particularly personality-filled (though Brown’s is clearly better at that than Yale’s). </p>

<p>Yale’s 120-page behemoth came in the mail and had a lot of what I had already heard on the tour, statistics, descriptions of programs, etc., but not too much on what the character of the place was. I didn’t look at it and swell up with nostalgia, “Ah, I remember how it feels to be there.”</p>

<p>But Brown’s book did remind me, at least in the random, generally useless questions sprinkled around, and the greater focus on the student profiles, a little of how I felt on campus and in the classes I audited.</p>

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<p>I too was disappointed in the lack of information in the viewbook. It was nice, but I do agree it focused more on the personality of the school, with student profiles and stuff, rather than an informative perspective.</p>