<p>@noobcake</p>
<p>…And there’s this debate again.</p>
<p>The only people who think Brown is any less rigorous than the other colleges mentioned are the people who believe students need to be pushed constantly for them to learn. With Brown there is a choice and what you find is mature young adults choosing rigorous pathways - and knowing that it was an independent choice just adds to their happiness and gives them greater breadth and variety. Obviously this approach is not for everyone - some people simply don’t have the amount of self-direction needed to take a challenging class that expands their comfort zones and some just prefer academic structure (and I don’t mean this in a negative/demeaning way, I’m just acknowledging different styles of learning) but for those with the maturity needed to make full use of what Brown has to offer, it’s an academic paradise unlike any other. With no restrictions, you can craft your own interdisciplinary intellectual pathway and while this doesn’t work for lots of people, for those that it does work for the other schools might become suffocating (I know they would be for me). It boils down to your academic philosophy, self-motivation and how you handle freedom. If you lack the second, Brown might be a breeze, but then if you lacked it you wouldn’t be admitted in the first place. The AdCom knows what it’s doing.</p>