Putting Emma Watson To Bed (The Brown Story, We Mean)

by Max Wasserman | July 7, 2009 at 6:00 am

emma-watsonBack in October, the world’s favorite young hot witch was seen touring the top Ivy League schools. But in April, Emma shocked the Ivy nation by opting to attend Brown over Harvard and Yale. Naturally this sparked a great reaction, mostly from IvyGate commenters who could not believe that someone actually chose Brown instead of settling for it–much less someone as internationally famous as Emma Watson. The three questions being tossed around were:

     1. She’s not actually going to Brown, right?

     2. Harvard and/or Yale must have rejected her, correct?

     3. Holy fuck, why is she going to Brown?

Three months later, these questions can be finally put to rest. With Half-Blood Prince coming out this month, the Harry Potter kids are on the interview circuit. Daniel Radcliffe took a break from being nude to say this to The Guardian about his co-star:

[Emma Watson's] very clever. Do you know her GCSE results?” His eyes boggle: “I was thrilled with mine – seven Bs, two As and an A*. I think Emma got three As and seven A*s – she’s incredibly academic, it’s frightening. Me and Rupert [Grint] to all intents and purposes dropped out of school. And she’s going to Brown.”

Not much reading between the lines needed there. Although Watson may have used the Imperius Curse on Radcliffe to keep him from revealing that she’s going to Tufts.

Whether Emma Watson is truly “incredibly academic” or just really devoted to method acting in playing Hermione Granger, she aced her A-levels. That plus $4.5 billion worldwide gross is more than enough for her to get in at Cambridge, so it’s unlikely that Harvard and Yale would have rejected her (assuming she even applied to them).

As for the third question, Watson was a guest on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross this weekend. The video of the interview is below and the discussion of her academic plans starts at 3:35.

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She wants to study in America because “in the States, you can study this really broad curriculum” and “it’s very open, they encourage you to do different stuff.” That certainly sounds like a person who wants to go to Brown (or at least someone who doesn’t want to go to Columbia). And here we were thinking that she loved the Providence Mall. I guess that was just a bonus.

 
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  • Eugene Cone

    She never actually applied to Harvard. If you ask the admissions officers they can freely discuss her because she was never an applicant (unlike some other celeb-licants like Jo Jo), and they all say she never applied. Seems she had her mind made up pretty early…

    Harvard ’09

  • Eugene Cone

    She never actually applied to Harvard. If you ask the admissions officers they can freely discuss her because she was never an applicant (unlike some other celeb-licants like Jo Jo), and they all say she never applied. Seems she had her mind made up pretty early…

    Harvard ’09

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N5z_UVWgYc Yale Record ’10

    The YDN’s freshman issue, available on campus as well as mailed out to ’13, says she never actually applied to Yale.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N5z_UVWgYc Yale Record ’10

    The YDN’s freshman issue, available on campus as well as mailed out to ’13, says she never actually applied to Yale.

  • Well

    Good on her! I hope she enjoys Brown and people leave her alone.

  • Well

    Good on her! I hope she enjoys Brown and people leave her alone.

  • Also

    I wouldn’t say that Columbia is less broad necessarily than Brown. They FORCE you to take a lot of different classes, if you wanted at Brown, as far as I understand, you could take all english classes.

  • Also

    I wouldn’t say that Columbia is less broad necessarily than Brown. They FORCE you to take a lot of different classes, if you wanted at Brown, as far as I understand, you could take all english classes.

  • Princeton ’09

    Haha that’s funny, Harvard and Yale. When she was rumored to have been going to Yale, all the Yalies celebrated, but now it is confirmed that she is going to Brown and you all are backing away, like “No, she never applied here!” I wish her the best at Brown; my brother goes there and loves it, I wanted to go there but didn’t get in.

  • Princeton ’09

    Haha that’s funny, Harvard and Yale. When she was rumored to have been going to Yale, all the Yalies celebrated, but now it is confirmed that she is going to Brown and you all are backing away, like “No, she never applied here!” I wish her the best at Brown; my brother goes there and loves it, I wanted to go there but didn’t get in.

  • Proud Brown Junior

    I would definitely say that Brown has a more “broad” curriculum than Columbia…what are you smoking Well Also?

    Columbia has requirements. Brown has NONE. ‘nuf said.

    In other news, YAY for Emma. Once she let it slip on Letterman the other about “concentrations” I knew that she’d chosen Brown.

    Of course people choose Brown, I chose Brown over Harvard and Stanford.

  • Proud Brown Junior

    I would definitely say that Brown has a more “broad” curriculum than Columbia…what are you smoking Well Also?

    Columbia has requirements. Brown has NONE. ‘nuf said.

    In other news, YAY for Emma. Once she let it slip on Letterman the other about “concentrations” I knew that she’d chosen Brown.

    Of course people choose Brown, I chose Brown over Harvard and Stanford.

  • B’11

    The suggestion that no one would ever choose Brown over Harvard is pretty ridiculous, anyway. I find myself faintly disgusted whenever I meet someone who applied to both institutions; often you find out that this is the type of person who applied to every Ivy League (except Penn), and MIT, and Stanford. Hurr durr.

  • B’11

    The suggestion that no one would ever choose Brown over Harvard is pretty ridiculous, anyway. I find myself faintly disgusted whenever I meet someone who applied to both institutions; often you find out that this is the type of person who applied to every Ivy League (except Penn), and MIT, and Stanford. Hurr durr.

  • Hahvahd13

    Brown is definitely a great school, and I agree that plenty of people would choose Brown over Harvard. I don’t think you should stereotype people who applied to both though! (i.e. me)

    I loved Brown but ended up choosing Harvard after I visited both campuses because I felt more at home in Cambridge/Boston. Each school is unique and you shouldn’t hold a grudge against people who knew weren’t sure of exactly what they wanted before admissions decisions came out!

    That said, people who DID apply to every Ivy (except Penn, of course) are usually pretty ridiculous

  • Hahvahd13

    Brown is definitely a great school, and I agree that plenty of people would choose Brown over Harvard. I don’t think you should stereotype people who applied to both though! (i.e. me)

    I loved Brown but ended up choosing Harvard after I visited both campuses because I felt more at home in Cambridge/Boston. Each school is unique and you shouldn’t hold a grudge against people who knew weren’t sure of exactly what they wanted before admissions decisions came out!

    That said, people who DID apply to every Ivy (except Penn, of course) are usually pretty ridiculous

  • Cooldude

    Go columbia!

  • Cooldude

    Go columbia!

  • Tufts12

    Nice little dig on Tufts- and yet another reason I wish I got into Brown.

  • Tufts12

    Nice little dig on Tufts- and yet another reason I wish I got into Brown.

  • pheobe

    who is “celeblicant Jo Jo”?

  • pheobe

    who is “celeblicant Jo Jo”?

  • this is a 1 off i just want to

    well who cares about america all i want to say the u.k and i don’t want her to leave shes much better off here she just doesbn’t knows i only want to write this comment and if u have decided to go best of luck but plz stay where ur friends are thanx bye

  • this is a 1 off i just want to leave this comment

    well who cares about america all i want to say the u.k and i don’t want her to leave shes much better off here she just doesbn’t knows i only want to write this comment and if u have decided to go best of luck but plz stay where ur friends are thanx bye

  • allimba

    The thing I have to say is that not all Ivies are the same. I think my college counselor told me that if I was going to apply to more than one Ivy I must not really love that Ivy, but the title of it being an Ivy; I have say I think that is very true. Like Brown is the only Ivy with no requirements. I was just talking to a graduate of Penn and I was telling him of all my classes (which are very weird, like my Pirate Class) and he was pretty jealous; to say none the least no other Ivy has a pirate class.

  • allimba

    The thing I have to say is that not all Ivies are the same. I think my college counselor told me that if I was going to apply to more than one Ivy I must not really love that Ivy, but the title of it being an Ivy; I have say I think that is very true. Like Brown is the only Ivy with no requirements. I was just talking to a graduate of Penn and I was telling him of all my classes (which are very weird, like my Pirate Class) and he was pretty jealous; to say none the least no other Ivy has a pirate class.

  • Yale ’12

    I wouldn’t be so sure. One of my friends took a pirate class two years ago and a viking class last year. We also had a Harry Potter class. No wonder she decided not to come to Yale.

  • Yale ’12

    I wouldn’t be so sure. One of my friends took a pirate class two years ago and a viking class last year. We also had a Harry Potter class. No wonder she decided not to come to Yale.

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    I never thought that there are such a class to study entertainment books Harry Potter.

  • wehaye

    Good story. I like it because there is a need in the sample experience

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