Ana

The stereotype is probably intellectual liberal hipsters, which is honestly relatively true. Most of the Brown population is liberal and intellectual, and fashion on campus is relatively hipster. However, you can find pockets of people who are just about anything else, including die-hard Republicans.

I love Brown. For me, it's the best of all the worlds I tried to unify when applying to schools. It's not too big and not too small, and has the benefits of a large research university on a campus that's vastly majority undergrad.

Academics are stellar at Brown. Students in the sciences tend to have larger class sizes, especially at the intro level of classes (Chem, Econ, and Bio have huge intro classes), but they quickly get smaller until many senior-level classes are seminars, even in these concentrations.

Students often study in groups, and the libraries have rooms you can reserve with white boards and good lighting for studying with friends at any hour of the day.

Brown is a diverse place. I'd like to think that no type of student could find themselves entirely out of place here. However, students tend to be liberal, accepting of diversity, and focused on education for its own sake.

The largest student group by numbers on campus is probably the Queer Alliance, because it's composed of quite a few smaller groups. Other popular ones are the Brown Daily Herald (our newspaper) and all the sports teams and fraternities/literary societies/houses.

I believe the official statistic is that less than 10% of Brown students end up in the Greek scene. I happen to be within that =10%. For me, going Greek was entirely unplanned, and my Greek life is very unconventional; I'm in a co-ed fraternity that exists only at Brown.

Sports aren't that popular, at least among the people I hang out with. While a good proportion of the Brown population is on a sports team, people don't tend to go to games, and our top teams are in semi-obscure sports, such as the women's crew team.