Milkmagn

Is WashU a better and more prestigious school than Brown?

Bustles

"Better" is pretty subjective but Brown takes the cake for prestige, I would say.

Kristina

No way! (@ the OP)

xmobile

That's funny...Wash U being better than Brown...hahahahaha right.

dcircle

usually the answer is "it depends..." but in this case i think we can safely say...no and no.

Milkmagn

I think WashU would be better for pre-med and biological sciences, no?

dcircle

how so?

brown is in the top 5 in the nation for the percentage of students who are admitted to their top choice medical schools

modestmelody

dcircle-- it comes from the misconception that having a good medical school, which almost always has a completely separate facility, completely separate faculty, completely separate endowment (which is added in for US News, of course), completely separate courses for med students only, etc, some how effects the undergraduate student body.

Milkmagn

I didn't mention anything about the medical school. I just said WashU is better in the biological sciences area, which it is.

Refresh me on the difference in rank between Brown and WashU, Bustles?

modestmelody

I'm not really sure what rankings really matter for undergraduate, but what I can tell you is combined with the fact that Brown is in the top 5 for getting into choice med schools that our brand new 95 million dollar research facilities coupled with a 4:1 concentrator to investigator ratio (including declared juniors and seniors matched to non-clinical, non-research only professors leading lab groups), Brown is a pretty great place to be for the biological sciences. Add the resources we have because of our separate and strong neuroscience and cognitive science departments, very strong computational biology groups which work across biology and CS, and a biochemistry program that flourishes due to its strong connection sitting directly between the chemistry and biology departments, and I can say that Brown is one of the best choices of Life Sciences.

But if you have an answer in mind before starting this thread, please do share.

If you have some metric that you think out classes all others, please do share and why that metric is more meaningful than others.

wolfmanjack

Nothing better than a high schooler posting questions to which he assumes to already have the answer to.

tonyspizza1800

For someone who posted on a thread on the Notre Dame board saying you are "not a fan of USNR rankings" simply because Georgetown is ranked lower than Notre Dame, you are being quite a hypocrite in using the USNR rankings in this thread to justify your own opinion that WashU is better than Brown just because it is ranked two places higher on the USNR rankings. Don't start a thread asking questions when your mind is clearly already made up.

Milkmagn

^wow, some people take CC way too seriously