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07-22-2008, 06:18 AM
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#46 | | New Member
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| Brown med school sucks.
What is Brown known for besides being in the Ivy League?
so bitter, you must have been rejected by Brown... | 
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07-22-2008, 09:46 AM
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| with a name like "middsmith" it seems quite possible... | |
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07-22-2008, 10:54 AM
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| It all depends on what you're looking for. And as for happiness... you make your own. If you go to Harvard because of the name and don't want to work, then that's your fault. If you don't make the best of your experience and make yourself happy, then that's all you, too.
(I am an incoming senior and have not applied/been accepted/attended/visited either school. However, from everything I'd read/heard/seen I would choose Harvard over Brown... I'm just not a Brown person). | |
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07-22-2008, 11:59 AM
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| I'm the mother of a rising senior and I would chose Brown ... so would DD. | |
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07-22-2008, 01:38 PM
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| Quote: |
Originally Posted by turtleblues so bitter, you must have been rejected by Brown... | Infantile response can only affirm my assertion. Quote: |
Originally Posted by dcircle with a name like "middsmith" it seems quite possible... | People possibly picked a CC name before they applied to college, no? With the kind of critical thinking you have *sigh*. You think you're so smart, don't you? | |
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07-22-2008, 02:26 PM
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#51 | | Junior Member
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| So middsmith don't go to Brown or Brown Med. We don't really care. | |
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07-22-2008, 02:57 PM
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| I would choose Brown over Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford.
Brown embodies everything I want in a school. | |
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07-22-2008, 04:02 PM
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| ^ I feel like people say that, but then when they are actually faced with the option, they travel down the more prestigious route...
lucky for me i can't be accused of being a hypocrite! because my top choice is one of the infamous HYP. yayayay! | |
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07-22-2008, 04:38 PM
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| I have a kid who turned down MIT for UChicago and would have turned down Harvard for Chicago as well. He had some excellent reasons (and they weren't financial). | |
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07-22-2008, 05:04 PM
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| Come on, middsmith. I don't go around these boards telling people Columbia sucks.
Oh, wait, I do. And, indeed, it does! =D | |
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07-22-2008, 05:08 PM
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| MQD, seven people were admitted from my class this year.
Three chose to attend Yale, Princeton, and Georgetown instead, and of the four that are enrolling, at least two are doing so for the "prestige" factor, since both were admitted to Williams and Amherst as well. Accusing people of choosing a school due to superficial reasons may flare up tensions, I've found.
Brown does offer a better undergraduate education than Harvard does, though its alumni networking opportunities and name factor pale in comparison to Harvard. It's perfectly understandable why one would choose Brown over Harvard. | |
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07-22-2008, 08:53 PM
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| Honestly, how can someone say that one school offers a better education than another? Can you please clarify that statement? I mean, have you truly surveyed every person that comes out of the schools and measured their levels of education? Or is this just an opinion because Brown has the reputation of being more undergraduate-focused? | |
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07-22-2008, 10:26 PM
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| I am not as black and white as I seem but I do get a bid tired of the genuflecting ... | |
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07-22-2008, 10:34 PM
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| Brown students are currently rated 2nd Happiest in the nation by Princeton Review. | 
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07-23-2008, 02:46 PM
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| One of the things that impressed me about the two Brown students I
came to know was their readiness to hands-on explore the world-like
literally drop a year and take off for Europe or somewhere;
Takes a lot of self assuredness to do that!
The famous revealed preference ranking paper** does identify H at #1 and
Brown at #7 in terms of head-on-competition wins for matricualtion:
1: Harvard, 2: (very close) Yale, 3: (very close) Caltech
4: Stanford, 5: MIT (close), 6: Princeton, 7: Brown
** A revealed preference ranking of U.S. colleges and universities,
Avery, Glickman, Hoxby, Metrick 12/2005 | |
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