what are my chances at ivy

blossom
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:22:23 +0000

Gogreen, you don’t know nearly as much about Ivy League schools as you think you do. Virtually everything you posted about Brown is incorrect (I am both an alumna and an admissions interviewer, involved and back to campus very frequently). A bio major at Brown has to fulfill all the requirements of the Biology department in order to graduate. You can’t just declare yourself “I’m making up my own major” and then dabble in whatever you want. The open curriculum does not mean what you think it means.

The inaccuracies of your POV on the other colleges I will leave to others to correct (but they are numerous). Please stop posting as if you were a college expert. Someone else (not the OP) reading this thread is going to be seriously misled by some of the stuff you write.

The idea of Columbia, Penn and Cornell having a “post grad” focus is hilarious. Ask any graduate of a grad program of those universities and they will double over with laughter. I have a Master’s from one of these-- the undergrads were the main event and everyone knew it. If you were at the Med school- then yes, you were insulated from the undergrad focus because that program is completely self-contained, the hospitals are geographically removed, etc. But otherwise???