<p>I was trying to give him a realistic picture but you keep trying to give him false hope. I checked the Brown applied math dept, and yes, they do have quite a few who received PhD’s at Brown. It’s not all laid out on one page so I may have miscounted but I think there were 6 in a total department listing of 33. Now look at the recent doctorate page. You can see that they are graduating about 7 PhD’s per year over the past 4 years. Over 30 year, that’s 210 PhD students. 6 of them got professorships at Brown. The other 204 didn’t. Saying that “a bunch” of the Brown profs came from Brown in a discussion about chances of getting a faculty position is misleadingly ignoring the fact that the vast, vast majority of these PhD’s are not going to get a faculty position at Brown.</p>