<p>Pride or arrogance? </p>
<p>I'd say Brown students definitely have pride, but it's not a bad thing.</p>
<p>Even more than pride, I'd say they have love.</p>
<p>love does not equal pride.</p>
<p>At least, I think I have a preference of Brown's forum over Harvard's... Harvard's pride brings it so many students whose goals are simply being a Harvard student and I'm really fed up with the meaningless yet numerous "chance me" there.</p>
<p>The Chance Me threads are all over this forum as well, despite everything I do to discourage people from that...</p>
<p>But you know what? I think that's an interesting point and I'm not sure how valid it is, but Brown student's ambitions have nothing to do with being a Brown student or Ivy Leaguer, in my experience... Is that different elsewhere?</p>
<p>I think they are. Not as much as Harvard, but a lot of people want Brown's level of prestige, or quality, rather. I know I did to a certain degree.</p>
<p>I put a thread in Harvard's forum to aske them about the people they recruited. Here's the link...<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/411862-question-all-harvard-students-here.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/411862-question-all-harvard-students-here.html</a></p>
<p>Is my English that bad? I don't think they really answered me and I'm very depressed by their response. I do wonder what your reactions will be regarding my questions in that thread.</p>
<p>If you love Brown, go for it...it seems that the only advantage Harvard has to you might be its prestige...and really, as someone who goes to a "big-name" school, the whole "prestige factor" wears off about 2 days after you get on campus. It's your fit with the school that really matters...if you love Brown, go for it, and don't look back. Good luck!!</p>
<p>i most definitely would turn harvard down for brown. brown is so much more laid back. plus, i honestly like providence and thayer street and all much more than boston. there's a smaller, more community-like feel to brown and its surrounding area.</p>
<p>Yes, I would</p>
<p>Luna--I thought you received some very clear and excellents responses, thanks for pointing to a thread on a board I don't read. I do think your posts were confused and rambling a bit. Even silly further on.</p>
<p>I think that you had a mistake in composing the questions, in thinking that Harvard students and alumni--with personal understanding of the experience, would think of their school as the stereotype that you seem to characterize it as.</p>