Should I hire a Brown graduate for this landscaping job?

Colleges & Universities Brown University
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<p>Me and a group I’m working with are hiring a landscaper, and one of the applicants is from Brown. This person has put together a great good portfolio that was customized for this application, but my question is: is it true that at Brown you get to “design your own degree?” They have a degree that sounds like it would be good for landscaping, but I would rather hire an applicant who I can be confident received the full standard training. There is more to landscaping than drawing designs, after all, and I don’t want to end up with a lot of ideas and no ability to put them into action. </p>

<p>None of the other candidates have much experience either, though, and the others either aren’t as good with design or didn’t put a tenth the effort into it, so it is a call up as to whether or not the front-running candidate is likely to have been allowed to skip essential classes as a result of being a Brownie.</p>

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<p>Designing your own degree is something that few Brown students actually take advantage of. It’s true that if the current concentration (our word for major) offerings don’t line up with what you want to study, it is possible to design your own concentration. However, it’s still a full degree and will fulfill the same requirements that normal concentrations at Brown do.</p>

<p>I know nothing about this person’s degree, and am a bit confused as Brown doesn’t offer anything in the realm of landscape design - when would this applicant have received the “standard training?” However, I can assure you that if this candidate put way more effort than the others, you should hire him/her.</p>

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<p>This is highly bizarre.</p>

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<p>RISD has such a program, it seems…</p>

<p>But I agree with mgcsinc…</p>