<p>Hard for me to say. While I spent a summer at Yale working, I only know three Yale students and none of them applied to Brown. And of all the people I know at Brown, only one I know applied to Yale (got waitlisted, said he wouldn’t have gone and only applied to make his parents happy).</p>
<p>I can say that Dartmouth and Brown is similar if for no other reason than my own observation that there are many cross-admits at the two schools. Dartmouth is pretty different than Brown socially, but not in ways that are always obvious or meaningful or clear to incoming freshman, IMO.</p>
<p>Wesleyan is another school that shares a lot of its applicants and admits with Brown. I get the impression there are less people looking at both Yale and Brown from my own anecdotal experience, so my assumption is it’s attracting different people for different reasons. I’ll let a Yalie come in and fill in a bit more-- I was never interested in Yale, personally.</p>