Celebs at Brown

js416256
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:37:05 +0000

To mgcsinc, does the promise of potential contributions to the university count as one of the non-quantitative reasons that these famous students were admitted because we all know that’s the most important factor to the admissions office with these students. Frankly, I think these students are hurting Brown’s reputation because when the public sees these famous students attending Brown they come to see Brown as a haven for the rich and famous, where these students can manipulate the Open Curriculum to coast through the next 4 years.

Personally, I value the Open Curriculum so much that it pains me to think about these types of students who were admitted for superficial reasons and who will abuse a system that is supposed to represent intellectual exploration and learning.

Because the Open Curriculum is so easy to exploit for superficial purposes, Brown definitely looks for a type of student who will take advantage of the system, a type of student who is intellectually curious. In spending hours and hours talking to my fellow 2011’ers I feel like Brown did a good job at finding students who are really interested in learning. But I don’t believe for one second that these famous applicants are put under such rigorous standards as the rest of us are and because of this materialistic and superficial approach to admissions, Brown admits students who will most likely waste this great system.