| brown is an ivy league, but don't go there if..
1. You're Asian (where people believe US News rankings as law) and you're going to live in Asia for the rest of your life--Brown itself admits (as stated in their "Boldly Brown" brochure) that Brown is one of US's best, but not a global university.
2. You shudder in front of educational freedom
3. You're a grad student.
4. Who you're around cares much about rankings and so called "overall prestige"
5. You're looking to be in the business world.
6. You want a bustling neo-urban setting for your undergrad experience.
7. You hate hippies/drugs/a relatively irresponsible mindset.
8. You're strongly biased against homosexuals.
That's a long list, but many people fit into these categories, and so there are many reasons you wouldn't be going there even when you're accepted. So perhaps there's an undue zealousness when you defend Brown for being so liberal and having an open curriculum, when not everybody likes such things.
The only other school I can think of that has as picky a choice for enrollment is.. Harvard and MIT?->Brown is clearly a maverick of the Ivy league, even if it's not as prestigous as some schools.
PERSONALLY, I really don't care too excessively about concepts like prestige that people make up to feel more in the top of the future well-to-do in-crowd. BUT, I live in Asia. Still, I like down-to-earthness, and moreover I believe in acting what you believe in and less in pretense->Although I'm not sure that's a good thing, especially when you begin to grow older.
However, it's not as if I have some grandiose ideal that can replace the lure of feeling superior over others.
Nonetheless, I'm tired of defending myself of why I went to Brown. Besides, I'm a Korean, which makes #1 and #4 relevant, BUT, the term IVY has a ring to it here too, so I'm not that bust.
Last edited by transfer...nah; 08-31-2009 at 03:49 AM.
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