Brown versus Northwestern ED?

theloniusmonk
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:02:20 +0000

“I think she would like Brown’s notably flexible curriculum.”

As melvin123 pointed out, you still have to take many courses in the major to get a degree in that major (shocking I know). I quickly perused Brown’s website and you still have to take number theory to get the math major, just like every other school. People get this impression that Brown has students who are not serious floating through their four years, taking this course or that course, some pass/fail, some for a grade, and then getting the degree.

As for the OP, I’d lean to NU because it maybe easier to get a double majors and minors there, from what NU parents have told me, especially since all the majors are in one school (outside of theater of course). You take core courses first two years setting you up for a math/physics double major and a double minor in poly sci/Spanish. But that is such a small difference, I think, you should be able to do similar things at Brown. Semester vs. quarter and campus fit should decide it for the reasons posted - greek life, sporting scene, evanston/chicago vs providence/boston.