Brown University drastically reduces number of varsity sports

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Anonymous wrote:Skiing? Where can you ski in RI?

Yawgoo Valley, baby. I’m not sure it qualifies as even a big hill - it’s more like a big dip. Brown probably skied in Massachusetts or NH.

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Anonymous wrote:Skiing? Where can you ski in RI?

Yawgoo Valley, baby. I’m not sure it qualifies as even a big hill - it’s more like a big dip. Brown probably skied in Massachusetts or NH.

Vermont

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Anonymous wrote:Lol equestrian at Brown is just another sleazy backdoor for really rich girls to get in.

Nope. They did not have a problem with that.
Did you want to go there 30 years ago and still feel better that they didn't want you?

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Didn’t they get rid of fencing too?

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Anonymous wrote:Brown has been the doormat in the Ivy League when it came to athletics over the last decade. Only Columbia has a worse overall record, but Columbia has done OK in recent years.

https://ivyleague.com/sports/2018/7/16/HISTORY_0716182714.aspx

Perhaps Brown should just narrow it down to sailing and Ultimate Frisbee.

And academics, of course.

They lag the other Ivies in that category, too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown has been the doormat in the Ivy League when it came to athletics over the last decade. Only Columbia has a worse overall record, but Columbia has done OK in recent years.

https://ivyleague.com/sports/2018/7/16/HISTORY_0716182714.aspx

Perhaps Brown should just narrow it down to sailing and Ultimate Frisbee.

And academics, of course.

They lag the other Ivies in that category, too.

Nahh you’re wrong about that. Appplied math they are #1. Very high med school acceptance rates and their PLME program is one of the most desirable. Extremely strong in the arts as well, particularly through partnerships with RISD. Their computer science department is legendary with a faculty of 30 for about 40 lucky undergrads. Economics, hard sciences (they have Nobel winner J. Michael Kosterlitz on the faculty), very strong. And while their engineering program isn’t as rigorous as Cornell or Fu, it’s probably stronger than the other ivies.

If they had accepted you, you would know this. Sorry about that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown has been the doormat in the Ivy League when it came to athletics over the last decade. Only Columbia has a worse overall record, but Columbia has done OK in recent years.

https://ivyleague.com/sports/2018/7/16/HISTORY_0716182714.aspx

Perhaps Brown should just narrow it down to sailing and Ultimate Frisbee.

And academics, of course.

They lag the other Ivies in that category, too.

Nahh you’re wrong about that. Appplied math they are #1. Very high med school acceptance rates and their PLME program is one of the most desirable. Extremely strong in the arts as well, particularly through partnerships with RISD. Their computer science department is legendary with a faculty of 30 for about 40 lucky undergrads. Economics, hard sciences (they have Nobel winner J. Michael Kosterlitz on the faculty), very strong. And while their engineering program isn’t as rigorous as Cornell or Fu, it’s probably stronger than the other ivies.

If they had accepted you, you would know this. Sorry about that.

You are triggered in the way unique to those from lower Ivies.

Anyway, not surprised they are citing back, given their poor track record and lower endowment. They can’t keep up with the others.

[Anonymous]

Brown has been the doormat in the Ivy League when it came to athletics over the last decade. Only Columbia has a worse overall record, but Columbia has done OK in recent years.

https://ivyleague.com/sports/2018/7/16/HISTORY_0716182714.aspx

Perhaps Brown should just narrow it down to sailing and Ultimate Frisbee.

Brown women’s soccer won the Ivy League this year undefeated, and the men’s lax team was a national powerhouse a few years ago (final four team).

Apart from that, the release notes that athletic funding is not being cut - the whole purpose of the initiative is to strengthen other teams. That said, it’s weird that they will be the only Ivy without men’s track/xc.

[Anonymous]

Bummer. I actually have a child who wanted to be recruited for equestrian, but Brown was not a contender for her academically anyway. Now there will be even fewer slots elsewhere, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lol equestrian at Brown is just another sleazy backdoor for really rich girls to get in.

Nope. They did not have a problem with that.
Did you want to go there 30 years ago and still feel better that they didn't want you?

Ummm yes all these fancy sports do. To be good at sports like squash and crew, most students attend expensive prep schools and then do camps they are also extremely expensive. If you aren’t UMC you aren’t getting groomed for these sports.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown has been the doormat in the Ivy League when it came to athletics over the last decade. Only Columbia has a worse overall record, but Columbia has done OK in recent years.

https://ivyleague.com/sports/2018/7/16/HISTORY_0716182714.aspx

Perhaps Brown should just narrow it down to sailing and Ultimate Frisbee.

And academics, of course.

They lag the other Ivies in that category, too.

Nahh you’re wrong about that. Appplied math they are #1. Very high med school acceptance rates and their PLME program is one of the most desirable. Extremely strong in the arts as well, particularly through partnerships with RISD. Their computer science department is legendary with a faculty of 30 for about 40 lucky undergrads. Economics, hard sciences (they have Nobel winner J. Michael Kosterlitz on the faculty), very strong. And while their engineering program isn’t as rigorous as Cornell or Fu, it’s probably stronger than the other ivies.

If they had accepted you, you would know this. Sorry about that.

You are triggered in the way unique to those from lower Ivies.

Anyway, not surprised they are citing back, given their poor track record and lower endowment. They can’t keep up with the others.

“Lower Ivies”. Is there a more infamous phrase? This has been said here hundreds of times: Anyone that uses that phrase is an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-05-28/athletics-excellence

FYI if you are looking to be recruited there for golf, skiing, squash, equestrian, or men’s track, field, or cross-country.

It’s astonishing that Brown would eliminate track & field/XC......so much history in the ivies. Very sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol equestrian at Brown is just another sleazy backdoor for really rich girls to get in.

horse girls are the best!

[Anonymous]

This is happening at a lot of schools.

Bowling Green just nixed the baseball program.

[Anonymous]

Ivy league should be a leader and get rid of football.