Brown vs. Wesleyan as a transfer student?

BrownParent
Wed, 16 May 2012 22:26:50 +0000

Brown has an more intimate feeling of a smaller school since class size is relatively small, especially in each department (my daughter had 45 in her CS graduating class, and that included 4 subspecialties.) Also since the grad school is very small there are ample opportunities to work with profs and grad students on research projects where they want you and depend on your participation. You can also take grad classes. Both these will look good for your grad school resume. My daughter was accepted to some top schools for funded PhD, likely based on her many research projects, especially one lasting 1-1/2 years. This is KEY. The LOR’s from close relationships follow from this too. DWIC is not as powerful as Did Well At Research, for PhD’s at least.

As for Econ, it is one of the more popular majors and has a good reputation. Her boyfriend had a summer grant from an investment to do an infant death rate study applying Econ analysis. He was Phi Beta Kappa and entered a funded PhD top international program for Econ/Financial Engineering or something close to that.

So there is some food for thought, I hope. I hear Wes is great too, but I don’t have the knowledge about it that I got for my daughter about Brown.