<p>It’s funny, because people write things like what John Wesley wrote but it’s not even true across the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Brown’s Med School only reopened in 1975 and until last year, only took Brown undergrads who were accepted before coming to Brown. Official rules for determining tenure at Brown says you’re to be evaluated 40% on teaching, 40% on research, and 20% on service to the university. Our focus is still quite clearly on the liberal arts college (same can be said for other Ivies, though not all). Students are more likely to mix at LACs? Have you been on the campus of all these schools to even make a statement like that with authority?</p>
<p>Don’t confuse Harvard and Yale as standing for what the Ivy League looks like. The reason not to apply to Ivy League schools because they’re in the Ivy League is because other than sharing a sports conference and being similar in age, there’s very little in common across all the schools.</p>