<p>Brown seems somewhat distinctive to me, in terms of the personalities of the students who go there. Do you think that the descriptor of Harvard (in #703) does not apply to Yale or Princeton?</p>
<p>The answer of interest to me involves the differences between H, Y, P, and other top schools that posters would like to add (if the differences exist).</p>
<p>Or, to paraphrase Barbara Walters, if the ideal applicant to H, Y, or P were a tree, what kind of tree would each be?</p>