<p>Yes, bluebayou, I am familiar with Brown in particular (I got in there this year, although I’m not going there, and got a close up look several times) and I found it to have a small-college feel unlike the feeling at HYC, and sometimes P.</p>
<p>But I also still got the “you’re smart enough to figure this out” vibe at Brown, moreso than at places like BC, Tufts, even Georgetown. As I stated, this is not an indictment, since there are pluses and minuses to creating an environment that provides more guardrails or less. Harvard famously works very hard to keep you there once you’re in – providing tutoring and counseling for whatever level of support you need – but the anecdotals say that you may be more likely to end up needing that help due to feeling adrift more often than not. But this is, of course, all hearsay and opinion, this being the web and all…</p>