<p>My daughter is a freshman. After just a month of classes, it’s perhaps too early to draw sweeping conclusions. But so far–all classes have been taught by full professors, three of the four classes have fewer than twenty students. She is floating on cloud nine and 100% thrilled with the personal attention, and dynamic instruction. Her academic advisor (who happens also to be a medical doctor) is thorough, attentive, supportive and extremely accessible and helpful. Writing fellows are available to assist students all semester with their papers and she signed up for one during her first week of school. The school is large-ly diverse, and large-ly stimulating but not large in any overwhelming sense. Quite the opposite. Friendly faces everywhere. I’m not sure what you mean by “preppy”, but my daughter feels she has met brilliant kids on every end of the spectrum–super liberal to super conservative and from all over the world. Brown was my daughter’s dream school and so far it has lived up to her expectations in every way.</p>