Uchicago or brown?

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Anonymous wrote:Brown, since at least half of the student body there has parents who work for hedge funds and investment banks.

and where do you get that data?

Kid goes there. It is common knowledge. Obviously, there will never be an official “database” of where parents work/profession, but this statement about representation in hedge fund, private equity, IB is absolutely true. Yes, it is NYC centric. Having said that, students are impressive in their own right. Econ/CS and Econ/Applied Math are two concentrations that are popular and tends to feed this pipeline to Wall Street. Chicago is also a great school, but very different.

No where near half the students are from the New York area and for those that are, I doubt all (or even half) have a hedge fund parent. How would your child even begin to know this, since at best he only knows the occupations of his friends' parents?

Ok, you are being far too literal. Yes, not half but substantial and, no, NYC centric does not literally mean half the students are from NYC. I think you missed the broader point by being too literal.

I don't even think a plurality of parents of Brown students work for hedge funds and I don't think your child would have any insight into this.

[Anonymous]

Brown is super liberal, and does not tolerate other points of view as well.
U chicago is a lot more diverse politically.
Both are great schools

[Anonymous]

UChicago has the core curriculum, Brown lets you take anything you want. Very different.

[Anonymous]

CUNY. Several of the graduates have janitorial jobs in finance companies on Wall Street.

Your question is so poorly worded, you don't deserve to go to either school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UChicago has the core curriculum, Brown lets you take anything you want. Very different.

If you think "Brown lets you take anything you want" then you don't understand the open curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Chicago, for the academic skills for Finance- it is truly hard core. However, there is cutthroat competition for finance jobs, and don’t underestimate the Asian mafia that has locked down access to Finance RSOs. In order to combat that, you need to work your connections and get around that.