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[Anonymous]

Parent of current student. I am just not seeing a lot of “cruising through” and mediocrity in the students I know. Brown is now almost 70% STEM and STEM adjacent. What I have observed is that these STEM students are wisely taking a really good selection of courses outside of STEM, which make them much more effective STEM students. IMO, they are better writers and problem-solvers and thinkers than STEM students in a more formulaic curriculum. Open curriculum does not equal lack of rigor, quite the opposite actually. You really need to acquaint yourself with Brown’s outplacement figures in technology, finance, consulting, and grad school. You apparently have an axe to grind regarding Brown, not sure why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of current student. I am just not seeing a lot of “cruising through” and mediocrity in the students I know. Brown is now almost 70% STEM and STEM adjacent. What I have observed is that these STEM students are wisely taking a really good selection of courses outside of STEM, which make them much more effective STEM students. IMO, they are better writers and problem-solvers and thinkers than STEM students in a more formulaic curriculum. Open curriculum does not equal lack of rigor, quite the opposite actually. You really need to acquaint yourself with Brown’s outplacement figures in technology, finance, consulting, and grad school. You apparently have an axe to grind regarding Brown, not sure why.

I like that you can see the number of graduates in a particular major or program on Brown’s website. It shows me actually have few kids. There are certain majors in the humanities. I always thought of it as a very humanities focus school.

Wondering if it makes sense to apply there if niche major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of current student. I am just not seeing a lot of “cruising through” and mediocrity in the students I know. Brown is now almost 70% STEM and STEM adjacent. What I have observed is that these STEM students are wisely taking a really good selection of courses outside of STEM, which make them much more effective STEM students. IMO, they are better writers and problem-solvers and thinkers than STEM students in a more formulaic curriculum. Open curriculum does not equal lack of rigor, quite the opposite actually. You really need to acquaint yourself with Brown’s outplacement figures in technology, finance, consulting, and grad school. You apparently have an axe to grind regarding Brown, not sure why.

Another Brown parent. I'd add that many students double major, so 70% stem doesn't equate to 30% non-stem. There are a lot of humanities majors on campus, my kid included (who is also a math major).

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of current student. I am just not seeing a lot of “cruising through” and mediocrity in the students I know. Brown is now almost 70% STEM and STEM adjacent. What I have observed is that these STEM students are wisely taking a really good selection of courses outside of STEM, which make them much more effective STEM students. IMO, they are better writers and problem-solvers and thinkers than STEM students in a more formulaic curriculum. Open curriculum does not equal lack of rigor, quite the opposite actually. You really need to acquaint yourself with Brown’s outplacement figures in technology, finance, consulting, and grad school. You apparently have an axe to grind regarding Brown, not sure why.

Another Brown parent. I'd add that many students double major, so 70% stem doesn't equate to 30% non-stem. There are a lot of humanities majors on campus, my kid included (who is also a math major).

My kid had 2 concentrations there, the primary in STEM and a second in a humanities discipline.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of current student. I am just not seeing a lot of “cruising through” and mediocrity in the students I know. Brown is now almost 70% STEM and STEM adjacent. What I have observed is that these STEM students are wisely taking a really good selection of courses outside of STEM, which make them much more effective STEM students. IMO, they are better writers and problem-solvers and thinkers than STEM students in a more formulaic curriculum. Open curriculum does not equal lack of rigor, quite the opposite actually. You really need to acquaint yourself with Brown’s outplacement figures in technology, finance, consulting, and grad school. You apparently have an axe to grind regarding Brown, not sure why.

Another Brown parent. I'd add that many students double major, so 70% stem doesn't equate to 30% non-stem. There are a lot of humanities majors on campus, my kid included (who is also a math major).

My kid had 2 concentrations there, the primary in STEM and a second in a humanities discipline.

STEM plus humanities are ideal majors in the era of AI

[Anonymous]

STEM is where it is at now. Everybody wants to do STEM. Colleges are laying off language and history professors. Majoring in something like history or English can significantly help chances for admissions to some colleges because all the kids want a STEM major, and they need kids to put butts in seats in the history and English departments.