A testimonial, to perhaps help ease the pain of writing those checks:
I was really glad to be going to Brown during the time I was there. In the decades since my graduation, that appreciation has only grown. It was nonstop hard work (mostly), but my oh my what a fantastic experience. The students like to learn, the professors like to teach, and what rules there are (mostly) don’t get in the way. Even the administration lends a hand from time to time: An entering first-year from my area related to me how, after being dropped off at the campus by an airport taxi, he realized he had no idea which way it was to his dorm. But soon a nice couple happened by. They offered to show him to his dorm, even carrying some of his bags. That’s how he met the president of Brown University and her husband.