<p>@harvard-you had a full scholarship??</p>
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<p>I’m curious. Why?</p>
<p>I’m curious- why NOT?
Harvard and Brown are two very different colleges. They are both excellent. Why NOT choose the one which suits your interests/personality better?</p>
<p>It looks like a caused quite a stir, huh? Okay, so let’s go about the usual defending business!</p>
<p>@Aniruddh: Thanks dude!</p>
<p>@Sushmita: Last year, about this time, I was lost in a mist of uncertainty. All I knew back then was that I had to make something out of my life, something that I would be proud of, something that my parents would be proud of and something that everyone who is associated with me in one way or the other would be proud of. </p>
<p>Today, roughly a year later, I am heading to one of the world’s best undergraduate educations. Like everyone else, I have worked hard for this and, more than appreciating Brown, I respect it. I have always maintained that Brown is an AMAZING place. It is one of the best places to discover your latent strengths, to discover who you truly are! I have thanked god every single day after that fateful April 2 morning for what he has given me. I hope he gives such an opportunity to many more in the times to come.</p>
<p>Now, comes Harvard, something that I have always wanted and desired deeply. Let me be honest. Had it not been for this one place in Cambridge, MA, I might have completely lost myself in that mist of uncertainty. I would never have been able to fight the odds! Harvard, simply put, gave me an avenue to express myself. It gave me the strength to look within myself for qualities and characteristics that I had lost track of!</p>
<p>I don’t want to go to Harvard for the prestige, the label or the exclusivity. I want to go to Harvard to feel intrinsically satisfied. It is a dream. And I hope my work in the future acts as the perfect catalyst to turn it to reality!</p>
<p>@Tippu: Thanks for the support! As for the analogy, it was generous because, in a few years from now, Brown is going to be my Alma Mater!</p>
<p>@Quasi: I, too, am in love with Brown! But, as they say, it is difficult to forget your first love - be it college or, uh, mademoiselle!</p>
<p>@Ans: No, I did not receive any financial assistance from Brown. Maybe the exorbitant expenses make me love the need-blindness and the other qualities of Harvard even more!</p>
<p>“I want to go to Harvard to feel intrinsically satisfied. It is a dream” Yeah, this is what I understand 
The irrationality of it.</p>
<p>blue_box - what sushmita said, Brown would suit my personality better. Harvard’s too…type A, and doesn’t have that Open Curriculum. I’d like to go there for grad school though, although it would probably be insanely difficult to get in.</p>
<p>Besides the open curriculum, I don’t see anything that Brown has, that Harvard doesn’t. And I know Indian students generally gravitate towards the open curriculum because they can avoid taking courses in fields they aren’t familiar with, but I feel the required courses that most colleges have are rather beneficial.</p>
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They’re remarkably similar actually. Obviously not clones of each other, but similar.</p>
<p>[edit] And I’m not trying to put Brown down or anything. Its an amazing college. Heck, I’m going to UNC, and that doesn’t compare to Brown at all.</p>
<p>Isn’t brown insanely tough to get into?</p>
<p>Yes, it is. But not as tough as Harvard (29 students from India made it to Brown this year as opposed to the 4-5 to Harvard).</p>
<p>And Harvard, hopefully we will meet each other there in grad school. Harvard is my dream university too!</p>
<p>^Absolutely!</p>
<p>First time poster!</p>
<p>Daughter starting this fall at Brown. She has too many other distractions to keep her occupied and so (I suspect) does not visit CC. I am sort of her surrogate, lurking here to pick up tips from you folks to help her with the transition.</p>
<p>Interesting comments on Brown Vs. Harvard. D did not even consider applying to Harvard since (echoing some other comments here) she thought it was not right for her for multiple reasons. Brown was one of her two top choices and is absolutely delighted that she got accepted.</p>
<p>@harvard17, looks like you will one of 20-odd kids from India going to Brown this year. Particularly curious about all the prep work you are doing to matriculate there. D grew up in the US until end of middle school and we then moved to India for her high school. I myself lived in the US for 25+ years before moving back. So, if you need any pointers on life in the US in general, will be happy to share some thoughts.</p>
<p>Good luck to all you guys headed out to the US of A! The excitement here is palpable! I wish I could recapture that feeling – right now I am more excited to head to Mettupalayam than Miami!!</p>
<p>you speak really good english! ^</p>
<p>Welcome Browndad!</p>
<p>I remember going through Mettupalayam once. It was on our way from Ooty to Coimbatore. It was very similar to my native place with lots of arecanut trees.</p>
<p>lesser students go to umn frm india than to brown 
hehehehehehehehehe
i have neither been to mettupalayam nor to miami.
udagamandalam ;)</p>
<p>Less students go to UNC than UMN. \o/</p>
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<p>I would be interested to know why.</p>
<p>[edit] Ansrox, lesser students = students of lower ability. Its “less students”.</p>
<p>Thank u blue box that knowledge I will treasure for the rest of my life. I am very happy to know that people in India have such goo knowledge of the English language
and I don’t think the unc<umn thing is true.</p>
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<p>I really want to go to Harvard Business School.</p>
<p>@harvard17, good luck for grad school at harvard. You won’t transfer would you?</p>
<p>As for Canadian Universities, they probably don’t even give partial aid, so I won’t even try. 
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