profanity

"Yeah right. How many transfers applying from Harvard get rejected? Doesn't the university love a chance to say "the Harvard kids are coming to us, we are l33t"" On the other hand, doesn't the university love a chance to say "we're so selective, we rejected a kid from Harvard."

magnetschoolCA

They would have to be stupid to reject someone from Harvard.

ClaySoul

Brown is just as good as Harvard, and almost exactly as selective. So...they'd be stupid why?

magnetschoolCA

ask every person in the world, and 9/10 times more people will have heard of Harvard and responded faster than if they were to hear "Brown"

harvard = job placement + education
brown = BS education (BS doesnt mean Bachelor of Science)
(The brown curriculum is crap where people who graduate from Brown mostly dont know anything about anything)

'tisthetruth

If you think that a Brown education is BS, why would you start this thread as though you were thinking of transferring to Brown? And how exactly is it BS?

renix

hey look everybody another person who likes to run their mouth about something they don't know anything about

dcircle

i'm at harvard now and advise undergrads. a small but significant number of harvard undergrads transfer out every year because the truth is, harvard can be a cold place for undergrads who are not strongly attached to an academic department or particular extracurricular activity. of those, some are very strong students and are accepted by other top tier programs that meet their needs. others are smart but are unable to demonstrate their ability to succeed in a competitive environment and have a poor academic record to boot. the long and short of it is that current harvard students that are trying to transfer to brown are no more successful than anyone else. the ones who would make good brown students are taken. the others are not.

to the original poster, your personal credentials and abilities are much more important than where you currently go to school. admissions officers at brown and other schools you may be interested in are much more sensible than that. apply and best of luck!

ClaySoul

sweet! do we have another posterX on our hands? something for me to do while I'm at work waiting for customers...btw, anybody want a Vespa?

Want to impress truck drivers? Go to Harvard. Any one who matters (i.e. your future hedge fund employer) knows that Brown offers a fantastic education. So have fun impressing truck drivers, trading name-recognition for the fantastic and unparalelled college experience Brown has to offer.

I loooooooooooove the Brown curriculum. It allows you to make Brown anything you want it to be. Most people at Brown have such diverse interests that it probably woulnd't even be a problem if we did have distribution requirements -- they'd cover them anyways. But if that's not the case, then Brown can be a tech school, it can be an art school (hooyah) or whatever else you like. BEAT THAT.

Furthermore, everyone at Brown, because they aren't forced to take classes, are in classes because they want to be in them. This creates a great class dynamic. You don't have slackers and grudge-holders being in a class only because they have to be.

ClaySoul

Oh and I'm not trying to offend truck drivers...it's an expression.

renix

how much is a vespa nowadays

ClaySoul

like, the company? going very well. sales are great.