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Thanks for all of your suggestions. Many of you have touched on the topic of personalities, and others, the extent to which ones abilities reach. Both are factors, and what complicates the issue of choosing the best place to gain your bachelors can be related for moment to what Ania said - multiple strengths. My interest in Brown University is highly correlated to its lack of rigid structure. Graduate students are mixed with the undergraduates, there are no required courses, and in the words of a philosophy professor at the college I currently attend, "It seems as though the graduate students learn as much from the undergrads as they do from the instructors," the professor is BU alum. Another reason I want to Brown, it provides dual-degrees at much higher frequencies than does other colleges and universities.

My VCI and POI are very high, therefore the pursuit of career or major is very intimidating; this is why I chose to attend a junior college for my AA and then transfer elsewhere. Should I go with sciences? Should I go with humanities? Brown is the type of school that would allow me to incorporate both at the same time without it seeming like a trade-off; and as Mark Twain once said, I never let school interfere with my education.