Is Brown hot at your child's school?
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I can confirm Brown is a top notch school for CS and among the best in the Ivies for it
Brown actually feeds more per capita into Silicon Valley than Berkeley: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/17/the-top-10-colleges-that-fuel-the.html?page=all Stanford University: 0.193 Harvey Mudd College: 0.191 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): 0.133 Yale University: 0.112 Duke University: 0.083 Dartmouth College: 0.072 Princeton University: 0.066 Harvard University: 0.053 Brown University: 0.047 University of California, Berkeley: 0.035 |
Anonymous
Sorry to disappoint, but my kid went to a higher ranked Ivy with a CS program that’s ranked higher than Brown’s. Being obnoxious on DCUM doesn’t make Brown a “top” CS school. I know from top CS schools. In fact, for CS your kid is better off at UMD. |
Anonymous
O.047% of Brown’s graduating class goes to Silicon Valley? Are we supposed to be impressed? Now the stats for MIT, Harvey Mudd and Stanford are something. You didn’t include stats for Carnegie Mellon, CalTech, Georgia, Penn, Columbia, or any of the many other schools that are ranked higher for CS than Brown. Cute. |
Anonymous
| Read the article instead of looking like a fool? It's the top 10 list, so if those schools aren't there they must not be in the top 10, huh? It's not .047%, it's 4.7% (which is a lot when 7% of Brown students received a degree in CS according to the CDS). |
Anonymous
Oh great. A ranking that’s based on class size. Yay. Carnegie Mellon and CalTech don’t even appear on your list, but do you seriously believe Brown’s CS Program is stronger than these? This ranking has little to do with the strength of CS programs at the different schools. It’s probably more reflective of the strength of the business schools, for kids who are going into the finance/marketing side of tech companies. |
Anonymous
Several lists have been posted where Brown doesn’t figure in the top 10. You think you can pick your favorite list and then insult (childishly, too) everybody who disagrees? FWIW, this particular list is based on the share of a class that goes to Silicon Valley. - This says nothing, nada, zilch about the quality of a school’s CS program. - It says nothing, nada, zilch about what these kids are doing in Silicon Valley, which could easily be management or finance. Nobody is disputing that Brown, like other Ivies, has its share kids who go into finance. As an aside, if a childish, obnoxious jerk like you is an example of Brown’s “vibe,” then you can keep it. |
Anonymous
Serious question: are you a teenager applying to Brown? Your discomfort with how rankings are calculated and to what ends, combined with your abusive snark, suggests somebody who isn’t terribly mature, huh? |
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Someone is triggered. Chill out. There's no need to post twice pretending to be two different users when it's clearly just you having a problem with Brown. FYI, I'm not a Brown alum nor do I have any connection with the school.
All I stated was that Brown had a great CS department and that it did especially well in feeding into Silicon Valley- the hub of tech. You misread the link- incorrectly stated 0.047% when it was 4.7%- and believed that I cherry picked Brown in a favorable position at the disadvantage of other schools which you deem "better" even though I literally copied a top 10 list. I corrected you- yes, I was snarky about it because you were too- and you think it was "abusive" and "obnoxious"? Seems like someone else needs to grow up. |
Anonymous
You’re nuts. I’m not the only person you’re bullying here. You’re a swaggering jerk who cherry picks rankings that fit his needs. In this case, I agree it’s a fairly irrelevant ranking that probably measures finance majors not CS majors. If you’re representative of Brown in any way, that’s unfortunate. Go stuff it. End of conversation. |
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| At DCs prep school Brown is a last-resort ivy. This means that people will go there if they have no other ivy+Stanford, MIT options (Cornell excluded of course). Then again our prep school is very snooty and elitist so it is probably not representative. |
Anonymous
| Brown is not considered HOT at our school. Most parents understand that the faculty, administration and student body have gone ultra left . . . to the point where a better education can be found elsewhere and often at significantly less cost. Also note the recent post in this index about Trustafarians at Brown. That's not the kind of environment I want my children to have for undergrad. |
Anonymous
This. Is Brown "hot"? OP, are you a teenager or student at Brown? A parent with a child at Brown? Have you posted other desperate threads about Brown? If so, "be happy where you are planted". These posts smack of a serious inferiority complex. |
Anonymous
My guess is, somebody who’s paid to promote the school but is trying to look natural by tossing in words like “hot” and “huh” in ways that my teens would find cringe-inducing. On a separate note, can I take a minute to bemoan the Breitbartization of online interactions, as evident in the Brown booster’s arrogant snark. Why do some posters try to make everything into a pissing contest? |