<p>@ Wowie, I wouldn’t be concerned about loving Brown. Literally every single person I have ever talked to that has gone to Brown absolutely LOVED it. And the student body is so diverse, you wouldn’t feel out of place being a westerner. </p>
<p>… But of course, my love for Brown needs to cease or else I will be depressed on Thursday.</p>
<p>i would choose brown over harvard!+any other school! Me=Brown</p>
<p>No way Jose.</p>
<p>I agree with inatlga.</p>
<p>not if it means no one in my family after me can go to college out of state.
but IF all things financial were equal…
yes I would choose it over harvard or yale
not so sure about UW and UVa. Need to take a trip to the east coast before may 1st.</p>
<p>The only school I would take over Brown is Columbia. It’s not like I’m going to get into both, but if some miracle happened and I did, I would probably go to Columbia.</p>
<p>Sigh. I have UC Berkeley and UCLA here, but I too want a change of scenery. I’ve been in California my whole life, and if I do get into Brown, I will hands-down attend. I just have such dismal prospects, but I’m hoping for my miracle on Thursday!</p>
<p>Brown’s not my number 1 but if I got in I would make it number one ;]</p>
<p>Brown is the only school my cheap jewish parents would be willing to pay for besides a SUNY (I’m from NY so they’re the cheapest option). If I get in, which would be one hell of a miracle, I would NOT turn it down!</p>
<p>If you’re talking about CAL over Brown, that’s a hard one. Berkeley is an amazing and exciting place, and some kids just plumb hate the cold weather when they have been reared in the land of sunshine.</p>
<p>If it’s any help, there is no comparison between the town of Berkeley and Providence. Berkeley has an interesting network of multiple streets with cafes, bookstores, restaurants, the cupkates truck (cupkatesbakery.com), and the passers-by (street people, locals, other students, professors chat you up). The vibrancy of CAL cannot be beat–it hums and throbs.</p>
<p>When my daughter visited Brown, she was disappointed that Thayer (?) seemed to be the only “active” street–she had been comparing it to home (Berkeley), and she didn’t find the students as welcoming as the ones she’d encountered hanging out on the CAL campus and Telegraph, upon growing up, very close to campus.</p>
<p>My daughter looked at Brown and Tufts for ED and chose to apply to Tufts (liked it more for very personal and meaningful (for her) reasons), and she definitely had the data, hooks, recs., EC, to be very competitive for Brown, I believe. </p>
<p>So, yes, some students do pick other schools over Brown, for a variety of reasons. The Ivy League label meant nothing to her after she compiled a list of pros and cons for each school. In fact, her second choice, had she not gotten into Tufts, ED, was Wash U. or Rice.</p>
<p>And, if you’re not talking about CAL as a possibility, but Pomona or Harvey Mudd, for example, I would pick Brown–I hate the smoggy and boring location of the Claremont Men’s colleges. If you’re talking about Stanford over Brown, and have any sort of political consciousness (e.g. are liberal and cared about the last election), I would pick Brown. Stanford is a-political and kind of like Palo Alto, itself–boring and provincial.</p>
<p>So, really, try to make a list of your possible schools with pros and cons, which do not include weather, unless weather is very important to you, which, for some kids, it is. I have known kids who transferred to UCLA (from Swarthmore and Cornell, respectively, this year) because they hated the weather (and the social scene).</p>
<p>Good luck–it’s nice, albeit agonizing, to have choices.</p>
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<p>I think that Wash U. is one of the top 3 undergraduate institutions in the country, fyi. Brown is not even in its league as far as delivery of undergraduate education (or food). And grad schools–law, medical, etc.–know it.</p>
<p>I’ve currently got Oberlin and McGill under my belt, which both sound like loads of fun. I’m also waiting to hear back from Tufts, which is a top choice too. If I got into Brown, I would love to go, but I wouldn’t want to put myself in debt for an undergraduate experience. That’s what Grad Schools for!</p>
<p>Also, yes, I would mostly definitely choose Brown over EVERY other school.</p>
<p>Ah… The closer it gets to tomorrow, the more and more I want that acceptance letter… It’s crazy…</p>
<p>SWHarbor: you are right–food at WashU is great, but I think she is going to go for the small LAC action. Even Brown is a bit large for her.</p>
<p>Phil: you are right–and you can make more money while you are in grad school, too. I know too many sociology majors with $200,000 debt.</p>
<p>brown was my #1 choice… until i looked into duke. :D</p>
<p>I don’t know…</p>
<p>I always used to kid around and say: “There’s way I’m staying in California unless I get into Stanford.”</p>
<p>And then… I did! I still really really want to go to the east coast for college. I need something new - ENTIRELY new. NorCal and SoCal are different, but I go to NorCal so many times every year. Bleh. </p>
<p>I hope I can make a decision that I’m comfortable with by May 1.</p>
<p>Hey everyone… first post on CC. Ironically I’m avoiding homework to post this. I hope the Brown admissions staff doesn’t read this! :-D</p>
<p>I find it interesting how many of us are expecting to receive a rejection letter. I suppose with any Ivy League it’s better to expect the worst.</p>
<p>In any case, to answer the question, I would say “probably not.”</p>
<p>Brown looks like an incredible school. But Northwestern does as well. I suppose we’ll wait to see what happens.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you all; you seem like truly lovely people.</p>
<p>What’s your opinion for pre-med + public health: Oberlin, WashU, Vandy…or Brown/Columbia/UPenn?</p>
<p>Well for pre-med, Brown’s 81% Medical School acceptance rate is very, very appealing. But I wonder to which students they have it set at? All students? Those than don’t take a gap year? Those with a GPA a certain number or higher? I guess I’ll look into it if I do get in.</p>
<p>YES, I wrote them saying as much, although JHU comes 2nd but I was waitlisted :(, I think my essay there was much weaker than my Brown essays, but I’ve shown interest for way longer</p>