@Regulus7 My parents aren’t pushing me to Brown. They just want to make sure that I don’t compromise on any grounds because of financed. They want to make sure if a degree from a top LAC ( an alien concept in India) works well in grad school admissions or possibly the corporate sector. That said, yes I want to take their concerns/ opinions into consideration because they are the ones paying and sending their only son overseas to enable him to fulfil his academic goals (and thats a lot on the part of someone who belongs to a collectivist, family-oriented culture)