<p>IfIKnewThen,</p>
<p>I’m sorry that you decided to turn down the scholarship, but still wish you the best for wherever you are headed. However, I would quickly like to address several of your points:</p>
<p>1). Centre College was founded in 1819, and thus has had almost 2 centuries worth of experience recruiting and handling prospective students (with a strong international reputation as a record of that experience). Furthermore, the Brown Fellows program is executed at Centre and UofL, but the program itself is actually run by the James Graham Brown Foundation. Yes, the program is still new and therefore is still in a development phase, but you shouldn’t attribute that to Centre, which again, isn’t struggling to figure out what it’s doing.</p>
<p>2). I’m not sure what your definition of impressive students is, or what a global citizen should be at 19 and 20 years old. Maybe you should take a look at this thread I started some time ago, especially the most recent post: <a href=“Brown Fellows Scholarship - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums”>Brown Fellows Scholarship - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums;
<p>3). Yes, most of the students are from Kentucky, although if you had taken a look at the profiles of us on the website, you may have noticed that most of the out of state students attend Centre (6 of last year’s chosen Centre fellows were from out of state, and 6 of this year’s were from out of state as well). Because the program is still new, it’s relatively unknown on a national scale, though that ushers in an entirely different discussion.</p>