| You guys are all pretty fierce about this. Grrrrr!
But hey, can we focus for a moment on human relations at the schools? My son likes the smaller size of Dartmouth (and Willliams and Carleton) because of the campus-focused social life, which seems to foster connections between students and perhaps make friendship easier. Also the close relations between students and faculty. He's excited about that. I think he is worried that students are more adrift -- and that it is harder to find community and harder to forge close ties with faculty -- at the larger Brown. What do you guys think? We have also heard that opportunities for leadership are much greater at the smaller schools (which may be an obvious point).
Meanwhile, he worries about the preppy frat scene (a thoroughgoing political progressive, he is nevertheless not at all put off by the conservative element at D and, in fact, thinks debate would sharpen his own thinking), would love to be near the mountains, worries about running out of courses in a particular field at a small place.
Hey, how do you all think the political science departments compare at D and B? |