Emma Watson Settles on Brown—Extra Emphasis on “Settles”
The British tabloids leaked early this morning that Emma Watson has decided to matriculate at Brown this fall. Although she was spotted touring campuses in New Haven and Cambridge, it should be no surprise that the tweenie who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series would avoid the gothic arches and Georgian bricks in favor the legendary Providence shopping mall. (Fuck yeah, America.) Yale and his Harkness Tower and Harvard and her Annenberg are notably more Potter than Brown. And notably more difficult to get into.
According to the secret tipsters to News of the World, Emma just fell in love with Rhode Island. Or something:
She looked at universities over here [in the UK] but fell in love with Brown. She has a lot of friends there."
If any of the sweet blogosphere rumors are true, Emma is going to be majoring in Greenpeace and hopes to become the captain of the inaugural Brown Quidditch team. She's going for a minor in looking good and making me feel like a creep for watching this video.
Embedded video and action figure photos after the jump. Oh and you "friends" of Emma at Brown. We know you read IvyGate, so just start shoveling the dirt this way, please.
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April 13th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Well Brown at least has something to claim now.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Brown’s also got Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter Scout on the way for 2013.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:54 am
noooooooooooooooooooo
April 13th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I don’t believe it.
This may be a little bit of HYP snobbery here when I say this, but there is no way in hell she is dropping Yale and Harvard for Brown. I have faith that she knows better.
I bet her publicists falsely leaked this to A. Stir up more interest about her (and her college decision, which by extension reveals her success in collecting some elite acceptance letters) And B. To give her a bit of privacy by misdirecting everyone’s attention.
Maybe she’ll be able to keep it low key during bulldog days now that no one’s expecting her to show?
April 13th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
that’s probably as good as she can get
April 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
That’s it. Brown, I apologize for ever making fun of you, or calling you dirty hipsters. I take it all back. I shall never diss thee again.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I heard she was going to Harvard until she found out Adam Clark Estes goes there.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Academics: A+
Campus Life: A
Selectivity: A+
Adam Clark Estes Level: F
April 13th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Your mom is a witch! And your father is Adam Clark Estes!!!!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Harvard loses 500 house points for finding an Adam Clark Estes on its grounds.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
since when are british tabloids reliable. there have been just as many reports that she is going to yale, but i don’t trust any of it. until she releases an official statement, i refuse to believe the reports of “secret tipsters.”
@Lies- you are an idiot. there are legitimate reasons to go to brown over harvard and yale. prestige is not the sole determinant of a college experience and perhaps brown is more fitting to her personality.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Is it possible, Lies, that she doesn’t want to spend four years around snobs like you?
April 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
@ senior yalie – There may be legitimate reasons for taking Brown over Yale, but not for taking Brown over Harvard. Prestige? Come on. You know that doesn’t even hit on a tenth of if.
@ b’11 – I’m telling it how it is. Plus, you can’t say that there aren’t any snobs at Brown. If you want to avoid snobbery, then leave the Ivy League altogether.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I was totally prepared to accept that she would choose Brown over HYP, or even Oxbridge, but people who work for the admissions office are now saying she didn’t get in at Yale. Can’t speak for Hahvahd.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
She didn’t get into Yale? Did those admission officers even SEE Goblet of Fire?!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I know. Worst. Decision. Ever.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
FlyByBlog had an article about how to check if someone with a given last name was accepted using a loophole in the Harvard Admissions website. A quick search for “Watson” gives a no-go. Either she didn’t apply or she didn’t get in.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
She must have gotten rejected at Yale, obviously.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
@Lies
wow you are a douchebag. this may be hard for you to understand, but brown is a fine academic institution and supposedly pretty fun. why should she sacrifice a real undergraduate experience by going to harvard? and if she doesn’t want to go to yale, that is fine–it doesn’t really affect me that she is missing out. besides, she doesn’t need hyp to get a job–she’s emma watson dude.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Anyone have a link for the transfer apps to Brown?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Great…another embarrassing loss for us.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Thank God. Somebody at Yale, who deserves to be there, got their place instead of her.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
@Lies
Get a life, bitch. I also turned down Harvard for Brown and I am very glad I did.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
By the way, Steven Spielberg’s daughter is also at Brown.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Hey Lies, get the cock out of your butthole you pretentious motherfucking cock sucker.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Ok, might’ve been a little hasty, but still dude, you need to come down off your high horse.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
of course she got into hy, but hip wins the day.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
The real question: does Brown let her live off-campus or will she get a roommate like the rest of us?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
HELL YES!! and by the way, all the ivies are legitimate (excepting cornell but that’s a given), so what are we fighting about?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
hell yes!!
by the way, all the ivies are great institutions (excepting cornell but that’s a given), so what are we fighting about? welcome to the league emma ;)
April 14th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Why, Emma? Why?
April 14th, 2009 at 5:15 am
“wait so like i don’t have to do work here at brown? sweet i’m in!”
Fail.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Listen to these assholes from Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Would you want to go to school with you?
April 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
ViolentQuaker, news flash…she doesn’t have to do work anywhere. No one is making her go to college. She drops multi-billion dollar movies. Therefore, she must be going to college for another reason…to learn. Probably why she chose Brown–she can take whatever interests her and doesn’t have to go to school with people who enjoy blogging at 5 in the morning.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
brown had a 10% acceptance rate this year…not really something to turn up your nose at. besides, Brown offers the open curriculum which really does offer a great opportunity to pinpoint which direction you should be heading (especially if it’s an obscure one that wouldn’t be included in a core curriculum). it also gives a lot of students the opportunity to double major even if one of their concentrations has a lot of requirements. another thing to take into account is that there are a lot of children of celebs here at brown and they choose to come here because they can more easily live a low-key life. brown isn’t really big on allowing cameras and press (the OC wasn’t allowed to film here when they were “at brown”) and most of the students are pretty chill and don’t care that there are famous people on campus; she’ll get the opportunity to be treated pretty normally.
one more thing…i think the people who said that she chose brown because she wouldn’t have to do any work here have had their views of brown obscured by their mommy and daddy’s prejudices. i’m sorry that nothing but one of the “holy trinity” was acceptable for you legacy kids, but that doesn’t mean those of us who came to brown didn’t work hard to get in and don’t still have a work load to take care of. that’s not to say that brown doesn’t have legacy kids, we definitely do, but somehow they seem more accepting and less snobby and judgmental to those of us without a trust fund than some other ivies.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Cry us a river, Yale. Brown once again wins the game of cool. Also, she actually does have friends at Brown already. It’ll probably be easier for her to blend a little (not that the “I want to fuck Hermione” Facebook group isn’t forming on the Brown network as we speak).
April 14th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
she’s definitely taking all her classes at the watson institute!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
@Brown’11 – what does that have to do with anything? Emma Watson is famous because of who she is, not who her father is, which is why this is such a ‘big deal’ – there are many children of famous people at Ivy Leagues, where else would they send their kids? Right now Spielberg’s son and Denzel Washington’s daughter are both at Yale… they’re like any other student. Emma Watson wouldn’t be, at least for a while.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Harvard’s buildings are absolute SHIT compared to Yale’s and Princeton’s. Hell, even Brown’s. They’re not more “Potterish” at all. How’s that science center looking now ‘days??
Thought so.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
@y09
And Brown has Spielberg’s daughter, Jack Nicholson’s daughter, Dustin Hoffman’s daughter, etc etc.
This obsession with celebrities attending these schools is crazy. No one posting on this site is cool enough to fuck Hermione anyway so why do you care?
April 16th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Yale would never, ever turn down a wealthy, unqualified famous person. Neither would Harvard or Brown.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Where does the idea that she is unqualified coming from? Her test scores were about as good as it gets, and what’s the difference between being a very successful actress and being a very successful whatever-else-gets-you-in (cellist, athlete, math whiz, writer, etc)?
April 16th, 2009 at 10:36 am
*Where is
April 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
BROWN!!! YAY! SHE’S GONNA BE ON CAMPUS! SO COOL!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Damn. Damn, damn, damn. As a Rhode Islander who picked Harvard over Brown this year, I’m starting to regret my choice. Hell, that was half the reason I applied to Harvard. DAMN YOU TABLOIDS, HOW COULD YOU LIE TO ME?!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
@Y11
well for one thing, math is much harder.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
1. every ivy is legitimate INCLUDING cornell. i don’t understand why people diss cornell as much as they do. I almost liked it as much as princeton.
2. Half the people at Harvard sold their personalities for high SAT scores
3. If she wants to go to Brown good for her, she looks beyond the stupid college rankings to find the best college fit for her.
April 18th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Brown reads the Yale Daily News including the piece in October, “Watson Visit Causes Uproar”… cellphones popping out of Yalie backpacks and pockets everywhere, frantic phone calls, photos snapped. Not to mention the admins rolling out the red carpet, private tour, shameless fawning. (Brownies are a little more laid back, no doubt due to the haze of pungent smoke.) Remember, acceptance deadline is still open till May 1. Any admissions office would have some concern that the “yield” (about 55% at Brown, higher at HYP) could jump 10 points. No place to put 270 more beds.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
perelman-
a brilliant actor is just as rare as a brilliant mathematician.
April 24th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Adams Clark Estes, I’m ashamed you went to my university. Aren’t you a little too old to play the game of, if-you-chose-not-to-go-to-harvard-then-you-didn’t-get-in? Having gone to Harvard, i guess it is in your best interest to perpetuate the idea that it is the grandest, most sure-fire way to secure one’s future. Maintaining its untouchable prestige maintains your own. Very strategic. I wish there were some way the Admissions Office could filter out douches like you (and many of the commenters above) that will shamelessly use their university’s name to put down others. A university is an institution, with random buildings, a cornucopia of people, visionary and antiquated policies, dark histories, poor immigrant workers, nobel prize winners, legacies of varying quality, athletes, severe stress, symbolism, fluctuating relations with local communities, extreme bureaucracy, whatever. It cared nothing for you before you went there and nothing of you now. If you’re smart, you’re smart. If you’re an idiot, you’re an idiot. No matter how hungrily you suck on the Harvard cock, desperately trying to align your own self-worth with the perceived worth of the institution, you’re still an idiot. In just the same way that hanging out with hot people does not make someone hot, your alma mater does not validate you. So everyone should just shut the fuck up about superiority, regardless of where you go or want to go. In this era of admissions fluke you could have been the butt end of the joke, so why perpetuate it?
May 8th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
So I guess I’m complete trash and garbage then……..because I’m going to Brown. Is there something wrong with it? I really thought that it was a great school and that I was making a better life for myself. Obviously, most of you just like to judge everyone else and their decisions. Grow up please, Brown, as well as all the other Ivy League schools are all exceptional institutions. Stop berating some in favor of others; they all have different personalities, and it’s an accomplishment to get accepted into any of them.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hell yes! I knew I made the right matriculation decision. And Lies? I picked Yale over Brown, precisely to avoid the ridiculous levels snobbery you display. Bruins ‘13!
June 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
^ Note: Reverse that. So there.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:20 am
@Ptown13
You are officially the most tolerant Princetonian I’ve ever heard.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Oh guys…
First of all, all Ivy-leaguers are incredibly intelligent people whether they go to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, or Cornell, Brown, UPenn, or Dartmouth(why does there have to be two categories anyways?). Also, I’m not saying that because I’m going to one of the latter universities and want to bolster myself. I’m saying that because I believe it. (I go to Harvard, but I know geniuses who go to Cornell). And heck, there are incredibly intelligent people going to state schools and community colleges. Yeah, there are rich people going to ivies, but who says rich people can’t be intelligent? And also, it’s not all rich people. And guys, don’t be so hard on Harvard. I know there are douchy people who go there, but there are nice ones too–I promise.
Also, Emma Watson is cool. Who cares if she goes to your school though. She is just a person. She is a very talented person, but aren’t most ivy-leaguers? I bet she’ll love Brown, but who’s to say that she wouldn’t have loved another ivy? To each her own. But heck, props to you Brown. I wouldn’t mind to meet her myself. She would be a fun person to know.
-KR
June 27th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Also, there are rumors that she is going to Columbia. It seems that all of these are merely rumors…
http://www.hpana.com/news.20883.html
July 4th, 2009 at 3:02 am
She’s going to Brown, according to DanRad.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:42 am
She’s beautiful,wonderful,intelligent, all good, I love it
July 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am
all Ivy-leaguers are incredibly intelligent people whether they go to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, or Cornell, Brown, UPenn, or Dartmouth->yeah, they ARE! but she is NOT!