<p>@Amadeuic</p>
<p>A lot of that is students of Andover and Exeter not holding Brown in quite as high stature as the other top schools. The reason schools like Harvard get more students from Exeter and Andover is that literally 1/3 of the graduating class will apply (and most of that is from the top 33%). Not as many students apply to Brown, as it doesn’t meet the needs of the students as often (after these two schools, students tend to want a much bigger city (like NYC), the biggest names (like HYP), or a much bigger school (like Cornell or UMich). I no longer have access to the application numbers, having graduated, but the students who applied to and went to Brown from these schools tended to be between the 10th and 30th percentiles at their high school. This year, Andover is sending 10 to Brown, although it was a stronger class than normal, and it was 13 in 2005. Matriculation at Brown has been higher than at Dartmouth or Cornell, too.</p>
<p>It’s certainly possible that Brown is more interested than other schools in not accepting a large number of students from any school, but it’s also worth considering that the relative number of applicants to Brown and to the other Ivies is not the same, nor is the strength of the applicant pools the same.</p>