Since filming for the series is already complete, the ability to keep a secret for several months may have been a consideration as well.
The contestants range in age from 23-53, and their vocations are varied from farmer to footwear designer.
Some undergraduates said they weren't sure how a Harvard law student would fare in the contest.
"On the last Survivor series, Greg from Brown was immediately labeled 'the Ivy League student,'" said Tom P. O'Donnell '03.
Aurely Kivett-Ripmaster '03 said other contestants might stereotype Brown, as they did when a Harvard Law School student was on the television show "The Real World" in Hawaii.
"When the rest of the house found out that he was from Harvard, they all flipped. He was pigeonholed as a genius," she said.
"I definitely think that there's a stigma attached to being from Harvard Law. People will associate him with the corporate trainer [who won the last series] and see him as part of that professional culture," said Dennis J. Mak '03.
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