| One of the things that impressed me about the two Brown students I
came to know was their readiness to hands-on explore the world-like
literally drop a year and take off for Europe or somewhere;
Takes a lot of self assuredness to do that!
The famous revealed preference ranking paper** does identify H at #1 and
Brown at #7 in terms of head-on-competition wins for matricualtion:
1: Harvard, 2: (very close) Yale, 3: (very close) Caltech
4: Stanford, 5: MIT (close), 6: Princeton, 7: Brown
** A revealed preference ranking of U.S. colleges and universities,
Avery, Glickman, Hoxby, Metrick 12/2005 |