<p>For those of you who have decided to attend Brown in Fall 2010, was there a particular moment when you knew Brown was right for you? If not, what made you decide in general? Do you regret your decision?</p>
<p>when I got rejected from my top 2 choices and had Brown as my 3rd.</p>
<p>lol…thats funny</p>
<p>How strange… I actually expected people to (god forbid) like the school that they’re going to!</p>
<p>I never said i didnt like the school…there were just 2 other schools that i liked more.</p>
<p>simple as that.</p>
<p>which two?</p>
<p>i knew right away when I stepped on campus. I had just been on an overnight visit at another school, and it went well, and there wasn’t a lot that I didn’t like about it… but when my mom was asking me questions about my visit, I just didn’t feel excited telling her about the school. But as soon as I stepped foot on the Brown campus, I just started smiling! I’m not even kidding. I was just like… okay, this is what it’s supposed to feel like. And after my visit, I was so excited to tell everyone all about it. I usually get really annoyed when my dad is drilling me with questions about my day or whatever, but I was so excited to tell him every detail about my visit. I didn’t feel that kind of excitement anywhere else I visited. That’s how I knew.</p>
<p>Ok this is kind of not the typical experience but oh well. I’m a really even tempered person - it takes a LOT to get me really excited or really sad. So i just was kind of judging schools objectively and didnt really feel an emotional CLICK anywhere (which worried me, actually). Then i heard about the PLME program at brown and literally as the visiting admissions officer was talking about it i got SO excited and just felt like it had been made for me. Plus I knew brown was awesome so that helped. I knew i wanted to go just because it was the first thing I couldn’t help but get excited about.</p>
<p>My dad cried after we finished our tour. I always knew I wanted to go to Brown, but after that, I was sure.</p>
<p>I never had any sort of epiphany during which I realized that I Brown was “THE school for me.” I decided to apply in September, then changed my mind, then thought “what the hell, why not submit my app” the day before the deadline. It actually wasn’t until I had my alumni interview (in late, late February) that I became, for the first time, really excited about the school. It also wasn’t until February that I learned that one of my mentors was a Brown alum and that I began to talk more to people who were familiar with the school. The more I learned (and continue to learn) about the Brown, the more I realized just how good of a match it is for me. Needless to say I’m so lucky to have been accepted and really excited for fall.</p>
<p>That’s kind of the same thing for me. I almost didn’t apply, but then I decided to on the last minute for some nagging reason. I honestly thought I wasn’t going to get in, but then when I got in, I realized that this was where I needed to be. The more I looked at Brown’s open curriculum and the way they go about things I guess you could say, saw the campus, and stopped listening to what people were saying about others schools and “prestige” of other schools and thought about what I was really looking for in a school, I realized…what can I say…I love Brown. I’m excited too.</p>
<p>when i got in. brown was my “fourth choice” after kind of unrealistics harvard, yale, and princeton. when i got accepted to brown, i kind of felt like it was my college already, even though i had yet to hear back from those other three</p>
<p>As my acceptances came in, I was POSITIVE that I wanted to go to Vassar but knew that I wanted to visit first. Came back from that visit less certain than before I left, decided to visit Brown for a 3rd time, as well as Wellesley, which I decided to add back into the mix, even though I had previously ruled it out. As my dad and I were getting on our plane home, he said, “you have 1 second to choose. What’s your gut reaction” and it was Brown. It took me another few days to make sure I was making the right decision, but my pros/cons list between Vassar and Brown pretty clearly pointed to Brown.</p>
<p>Well, as happened to others I got rejected from my top 3 (HYP). I did have to choose between Brown and Duke + a full ride at Case Western Reserve. I had a really long conversation with my alumni interviewer and visited the campus and absolutely loved the atmosphere. My experience at Duke was completely different - I was just plain ambivalent there (which I took as VERY negative).</p>
<p>Am I the only one that finds having HYP as a top three a bit weird? It definitely seems that those schools are all very different, at least from my perspective, and the only thing that ties them together is the Ivy cache. I suppose everyone has there own reasons for things, but is there something I’m missing here?</p>
<p>they are normally ranked in the top 3 on USNews are are primarily considered the 3 best Ivy schools…therefore they are HYP.</p>
<p>I’m not stupid, I know what HYP is, and what it stands for, and that they are consistently the top three according to USNews and what-have-you, but they are not similar as schools, and I don’t understand why they are so commonly the top three choices for people. Do you not look at whether or not you’ll be happy at a school? Or is it just the rank and prestige that matter?</p>
<p>prestige and recognition factor is very persuasive. its a validation factor for the students.</p>
<p>i was actually wrestling between applying early to Y or Brown, and in the end, i knew that i would be a lot happier at Brown, at least in this stage of my life (def. y for law though :D)</p>
<p>Well, I’m actually going to RISD in the fall, but Brown was the reason I chose RISD over Cooper Union, so I’ll give my opinion. I needed a school that merged art with academia, and if I had not been set on a career in art, I would have applied to Brown anyway. When I went up to see RISD, I also spent a good amount of time on the Brown campus, since RISD shares many buildings with Brown and RISD students are allowed to take classes there. One experience really made an impression- I was walking back to a b&b from dinner with my mom, and we stopped on Brown’s main green to watch what appeared to be a drama or debate rehearsal. It was amazing… the students were talented, well-spoken, diverse in their appearances and overall demeanors, and just seemed to possess a passion for life. The same night, we saw the swing club dancing in a window over the green, and I just realized that this was an amazing place, full of diversity and passion.</p>