<p>Why should I pick Brown over Penn?</p>
<p>I think Brown might have a nicer campus. But i think that Penn will give you a better education and its ranked higher. Not that you should base you decision only on that.</p>
<p>as if there was actually a discernable difference between the quality of a brown education and the quality of a penn education…</p>
<p>Jean Pierre, what are you talking about? At schools like Brown and Penn, the difference in the education you get rests with what department you’re in, how hard you work, what classes you take, and whether the school’s intellectual environment is a good match for you. It is impossible to generalize about the “quality of education” of one school or another at this level.</p>
<p>Secondly, there are several Brown/Penn threads in the main Brown forum, so check those out.</p>
<p>there is a discernible difference in quality of <em>education</em>. though penn has the upper hand in size of the student body, graduate schools, and NIH grants, the reason to pick brown over penn is because it has the edge in everything that matters to an undergraduate</p>
<p>brown has a larger endowment per student, student control over the curriculum, academic (as opposed to pre-professional) course offerings, small classes, first year and senior seminars, faculty:student ratio, interdisciplinary undergraduate programs, students winning prestigious fellowships, high profile alumni and so on…</p>