Brown University

Brown is somewhat unlike the other Ivies. If you just made a list that went, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth and said, "That's where I'm applying", then you probably need to think again.

There's no core cirriculum and, in many deparentments, prereqs and grades aren't a big deal. When I explain that to students at other schools, they assume Brown folks must slack off. It's just the opposite. It means that you have to create your own plan. And the sort of people who do well at Brown tend to create plans far more intense than someone who was given a pre-written one would.

Basically, Brown is the perfect school. But it is only perfect for people of a certain disposition. It you want to be mollycoddled while waiting to be granted a diploma with a fancy name, apply somewhere else.

3rd Year Male -- Class 2003

Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: F

I loooove Brown. The people are friendly and there are so many different activities to get involved in. What I especially love is that you can meet someone and just hang out and then be amazed when they switch into study mode because of how smart they are. I don't find a lot of pretentious, snotty people here, and everyone has all these hidden talents you would never even know about. Almost everyone is heavily involved in non-academic activities and I think these activities, that they are passsionate about, are what make Brown students so happy. Plus people are not grade obsessed since grading is based on a/b/c/no credit scare. Not having minuses and plusses makes people learn more for the experience of actually learningYAY BROWN!! :)

1st Year Female -- Class 2005

Friendliness: A+, Perceived Campus Safety: B-