My daughter is at Brown. The CS program is highly regarded. She knows students with opportunities at Google, Microsoft, and various other companies we’ve all heard of. CS at Brown is super rigorous. I don’t think there’s much in “Business” at Brown. Applied Math is also very very strong.
What I value the most about where she is is this:
- She’s in an environment that is not cut-throat. It’s the Students vs. the Material. Not students vs. students. For a school of that caliber, it is a happy, positive environment. She is a quiet introvert, but she has found some very nice, wholesome fellow-nerds as friends.
- I love Providence. Everything a big city offers, ‘compacted’ into a cute town. She can walk to the Amtrak Station. (It’s the nicest, cutest Amtrak station I’ve ever seen) And, that’s how she gets home.
We visited Wash U. That is nice, too. My gut feeling was that it was less-diverse than Brown.