About Brown:

Brown University is known as the quirkiest of the Ivies. Perhaps the biggest draw to this school is the Open Curriculum, which allows students to work with advisors and freely build the perfect, interdisciplinary curriculum for them. There are no required classes or general education requirements. Students are passionate, hardworking, and self-driven. Students tend to be pretty liberal and embrace idealistic activism. The following schools were chosen because someone who would be happy at Brown would also likely be happy there.