<p>Uroogla, you may or may not be accurate in your assessment that Brown is not held in as high of regards as some of the other Ivies as far as applicant to Brown is considered, but I really have my doubts about your position. St. Paul’s is every bit Andover and Exeter’s equal academically, and is more socially elite than either, and the number of applicants to Brown from there is between 30-45 every year, the same as Yale, more than Princeton, and only slightly less than Harvard. In any given year, Brown will only accept between 7-10 of those applicants, again, roughly the same as Yale, more selective than Princeton, and only slightly less selective than Harvard. At Milton Academy, again, every bit Exeter’s or Andover’s academic equal, only Harvard consistently gets more applicants than Brown, and Princeton is not applied to much at all, ditto for Yale. I know Barbara Landis Chase, the headmaster, is a Brown grad, so an alternative theory for Andover may be that these kids don’t apply to Brown in as great a numbers as Harvard is because they may not get into either school, and decide to give a what hail application to Harvard while hedging their bets at, say, Tufts or Wesleyan. I know that the matriculation list for Exeter from 1993-1997 listed the following schools in preference:
1)Harvard-95
2)Yale-73
3)Brown-65
4)Princeton-42</p>
<p>Since applications from elite schools are notoriously inelastic, that is the same schools are preferred by the better students, it is likely Brown is still within the top 4 preferred Ivies overall for Exeter and Andover students, being eclipsed in preference consistently by only Harvard and Yale.</p>