Transferring to Brown (What are the opportunities like there)

I am at a private target school. Most people here would rank it in the top 4-8 schools in terms of placement. Thing is, particularly due to my online freshman year, I fucking hate it. I always wanted to go to Brown (yes liberal shithole you guys might say but still...) during high school, I got accepted but turned it down for other reasons. Now I regret it. I am thinking of transferring to Brown and am kinda confident that I will get in. Am I really fucking myself by not sticking it out at my current school? We place at PJT, EVR, BX, KKR, Bain, GS, MS, everywhere. I haven't really looked at Brown but it doesn't seem to place that well. Also, any other suggestions for target transfer-friendly schools?

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Brown is not a good school. In any way. When the Ivy League was being set up, Harvard and Yale did not even consider Brown. Instead they considered much more eminent institutions like Williams or Amherst. Brown, being the desperate institution it is, lobbied Harvard and Yale on the grounds that Providence, RI was the perfect midpoint between New Haven and Cambridge, Mass. So now people associate Brown with H and Y despite it having basically, no history of academic achievement, the smallest endowment in the Ivy League (both absolutely and per student), very few graduate schools (and the ones it has are mediocre at best), and a joke curriculum where GPAs are not even calculated and grades can essentially be made up. Oh, and on top of all that, Brown has the most strident and outspoken SJWs in the Ivy League, while its median student family income exceeds $250k (meaning a bunch of rich, stupid, spoiled kids).   

 

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