<p>the thing you have to watch out for with Brown is the constant theme that it’s “a lot like an LAC”; it is and, it isn’t. There are lots of people even in your own class who will fall right off the radar as soon as school begins. As an LAC (Wesleyan) grad it’s an eerie feeling to constantly meet Brunonians who attended the same college at the same time and never so much as heard of each other. Or, they’ll have graduated without ever having met a gay person or had a heart-to-heart talk with a person of color. I mean, that’s probably not a deal-breaker for many people; I’m just saying that for me, it would be a little strange to go to a school that brags so much about its diversity and not take those interactions for granted. </p>
<p>To me, Middlebury and Wesleyan are the ideal size for people interested in what diversity has to offer without it being suffocating or overbearing; you eventually just begin to just “see people as people”; but, you also realize that it’s a process rather than a given.</p>