Convince me NOT to go to Brown

Colleges & Universities Brown University
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<p>It’s pretty simple to list the reasons as to why one should attend Brown over another school - the academic requirements (or lack thereof), the type of student body, ivy-leage education, etc… but I think it might be useful to others as well as myself if people listed reasons why someone shouldn’t go to Brown.</p>

<p>Just as a frame of reference, I’m choosing between Brown and Duke and plan on majoring in the sciences/science related areas. I visited both, and wasn’t immediately hooked at either institution. </p>

<p>Just to reiterate, I don’t want this to be a Brown vs. [blah] thread, but rather a “why not Brown” thread.</p>

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<p>Hey, those were/are two of my top choices/tormentors as well. These are the possible disadvantages I saw in Brown, although i am matricualting there:
-ultra-liberal, even a bit one dimensionally so, depending who you hang with. I am liberal, but still, a dialogue is imporant…during adoch i tried to argue with some peeps that larry summers’ “chauvinist” statements had some validity, and it went over like, well, a really heavy lead balloon
-distribution requirements (like at Duke) ensure that you will be educated in many areas other than your major, wheras at Brown this is totally up to you(with an advisor). A common querie is: Would a Brown alum stand up to a Columbia or Chicago alum in a debate about politics or art?
-And oh yeah, that FOCUS program at Duke sounds amazing if one of the disciplines piques your interests…oh whoops im getting all x versus x on ya…ok im done</p>

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<p>its cold
its very cold
rhode island is nicknamed the ocean state but the beach is an hour away. how ironic
and its cold
plus its the name of a color
and it was funded by slave trade money
and its called brown (how ironic is that)</p>

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<p>oh yah, and ive gotten from a number of people: “Oh, isn’t that the hippie ivy?”, or worse, “Isn’t that the pot smoking ivy?”<br>
Although, I would like to assume that grad schools and future employers know better…</p>

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<p>I’m from Long Island, so I’m kind of used to cold. It was only 8 degrees when I visited in February. At least it was warmer than Dartmouth.</p>

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<p>actually i think the gulf stream or something makes it warmer than new england usually is…it hit 80 at adoch</p>

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<p>It was 85 or so. I hear that was a freak heatwave, though.</p>

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<p>It was not usual.</p>

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<p>If you want the Greek life or the Cameron Crazy experience, Brown is not for you. The food at Duke is probably better. I also will say I’ve heard nice things about the FOCUS program. Duke has much nicer weather and it has a far more southern culture – 14% of the class is from NC and 20%+ are from the surronding states if I recall correctly.</p>

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<p>Some reasons for Duke over Brown:</p>

<ol>
<li> Duke has much better weather, consistently.</li>
<li> Duke has a lot more school spirit around athletics.</li>
<li> At Duke incoming students get a free Ipod!</li>
<li> If you are a girl, I am willing to bet that the guys at Duke are better looking on average than the boys at Brown. </li>
</ol>

<p>Unfortunately, I am not very good at this…</p>

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<p>Brown has very little school spirit
many people get very lazy once there there due to pass/fail options and no requirements
the dorms are all really ****ty
providence is a real city (for some this is bad, i dont know your preferences)
girls are most likely hotter at duke (never been, but southern schools def have hotter girls)</p>

<p>and of course the best reason not to go:
I’m on the waitlist</p>

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<p>hmm… Duke sounds like a good name. i meanid rather say i graduated from Duke (a noun) than from Brown (an adjective)
im sure ifi said i went to brown, the other people will prolly be listen for the other words, unitl the realize its just BROWN. but ifi said i went to Duke, they think “oh wow, Royalty”
plus, im sure the chicken is better at duke.
and the iced tea is different. do u like sweet tea or regular tea? but the tea is better in the south. hey man, go to duke</p>

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<p>Many of your thoughts are pretty superficial arguments…imho. I hate to be picky about this stuff, and i don’t want to sound like a cocky ■■■■■■■, but I’m looking for like…genuine reasons and not the variety of iced tea served.</p>

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<p>I was worried that undergrad focus might be lacking at Brown (but I was looking at LACs, not Duke…)</p>

<p>The advising system is supposed to suck.</p>

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<p>im trying to bring a bit of humor into this. i have a personality, ya know? and im not uptight like u might be. plus, i love iced tea and coke products. i effectively ruled out two top colleges because they didnt have coke. they served PEP…(starts to go into convulsions). so lighten up man…or woman</p>

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<p>I ruled out some schools because their mascots were stupid. Purple cows? Come on.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about the iced tea thing. I just couldn’t tell if you were being serious or not.</p>

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<p>cooooooooold</p>

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<p>iced tea is good, and it should be Green Tea, perferably Arizona. or Sweet tea, agian arizona. umm… not an iced tea thread huh
ok… i geuss they way i did my collegesearch, the tours i took after being accepted were just to weed out based on little small trivial things. what kind of crap didnt u like? too manypigeons on the campus? the grass wasnt green enough? i dont know, my mind is weird.</p>

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<p>“Brown is the color of poop” is the official Ivy retort for Brown.</p>

<p>That and they’re a bunch of damn hippies.</p>

<p>But seriously. There’s no reason NOT to go to Brown unless you got into another school you like more. That’s the only reason I’m not there.</p>