The agent successfully assembled a comprehensive overview of Brown University by fetching the main website pages and using web search to locate admissions and financial aid content hosted on separate subdomains. The site's fragmented architecture (main domain, admission.brown.edu, finaid.brown.edu) required the agent to search rather than navigate organically; however, all key information was findable and the agent delivered a complete, well-sourced explanation of what Brown does, who it serves, pricing structure (including the Open Curriculum and financial aid details), and differentiation from peer institutions.

• ›Steps [1–3, 7] established the core identity: research university with undergraduate and graduate programs, Open Curriculum (no core requirements), and faculty-taught undergraduate courses. These pages were discoverable via direct navigation and contained foundational institutional messaging.
• ›Steps [11–13] revealed that admissions, tuition, and financial aid information live on separate subdomains (admission.brown.edu, finaid.brown.edu) rather than under brown.edu/admissions or brown.edu/tuition. The agent's initial guesses at /admissions and /tuition-and-aid returned 404s; web search was required to locate the correct URLs. This architectural choice created friction but was resolvable.
• ›The agent could not extract exact 2025–26 tuition dollar amounts from the fetched pages—financial aid pages reference a calculator tool but do not publish sticker prices prominently in the HTML. The agent noted this gap honestly in the final response.
• ›Step [15] provided rich detail on the Open Curriculum, Brown's most distinctive differentiator from peer Ivies—no mandatory core, S/NC grading option, concentration (not major) model. This is a genuine content-bearing fetch that substantiated the key positioning claim.
• ›The agent relied on prior knowledge and web search results (steps [9], [10], [14], [16], [17]) to fill gaps left by the fetched pages, particularly for rankings, acceptance rates, and comparative positioning. These searches returned metadata and external summaries rather than Brown's own content.
• ›The site's primary navigation structure is not agent-friendly: admissions and financial aid are hosted off-domain, forcing an external search dependency rather than enabling organic link-following from the main site. However, once located, the admission.brown.edu and finaid.brown.edu pages were well-structured and accessible.