<p>"… it really hurts not to be able to ‘explore’ other subjects, such as philosophy for example. "</p>
<p>Yes like biology majors are precluded from taking any courses besides Biology…</p>
<p>ArarVen is really trying to work that waitlist.</p>
<p>“these are all opinions”"
What did you hope to get here besides opinions? What would be a
fact" about “cut-throat competition?”. Is there a quantified cut-throat meter someplace?? What can anyone possibly say, when you heard something elsewhere, and that is “fact” to you?</p>
<p>I guess its possible that bio majors at Brown do no work whatsoever, and the entire class waltzes into Harvard Medical school anyway. But let’s pretend you take a bunch of really smart, highest motivated students in, and all of them want to go to Harvard Medical School, and you tell them only 10% of them will get in there. Doesn’t it seem implausible to you, on its face, that this will not create a certain amosphere? I certainly find it implausible. But I never attended Brown.</p>
<p>" I’m being critized "
Where? Please reprint the post where you were criticized. I read only some posts where people express a view of the university that differs from your preconceived one. I don’t see any post that criticized you.</p>