Brown University drastically reduces number of varsity sports

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Brown had 38 varsity sports and was terrible in most of them. They had fewer Ivy League titles in all sports than all their peers. Yes, they care about that. So they are basically going to allocate the same amount of $$ to 29 varsity sports (still a lot) instead of 38. They will rely on student fees and fat-cat alum donors to help bankroll the others turning to club status.

Only over the past decade. Over the history of the Ivy League they have more titles than Columbia. But Columbia has been on the upswing, while Brown has become an oversized SLAC that is living beyond its means.

It should just leave the Ivy League and let another school like Wash U or Vanderbilt take its place.

Wash u and Vandy are not ivy.

If anything Cornell and brown should be dropped for duke and Hopkins.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

What is Fu?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

What is Fu?

https://engineering.columbia.edu/

[Anonymous]

A Brown alum just made a gigantic profit off the pandemic, so they should call him up for $$$$$.

[Anonymous]

Cut varsity sports entirely

[Anonymous]

Brown has more in common with some of the SLACs than an Ivy now anyway. They should sell their medical school and try and shore up their weak endowment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cut varsity sports entirely

+1. Completely unnecessary, waste of time and money. It should be cut across the board post-COVID and focus should return to solely academics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cut varsity sports entirely

+1. Completely unnecessary, waste of time and money. It should be cut across the board post-COVID and focus should return to solely academics.

You can understand why someone from Brown, with the worst athletics in the Ivies, would say that.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for women skiers and men XC/track members still at the school. Not only are their programs cut, but their friends of the opposite gender still get to compete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for women skiers and men XC/track members still at the school. Not only are their programs cut, but their friends of the opposite gender still get to compete.

UMD I think had to cut men’s Xc, and I think Vandy and USC did too (a while ago). Women’s Xc/tf usually isn’t affected by these cuts because of Title IX requirements.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cut varsity sports entirely

+1. Completely unnecessary, waste of time and money. It should be cut across the board post-COVID and focus should return to solely academics.

You can understand why someone from Brown, with the worst athletics in the Ivies, would say that.

You should note that the thread has been cleaned up, mostly your posts.

[Anonymous]

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My Brown DS student-athlete read this thread and laughed at the “adults” who trash a school they never attended. We figure those posts are from people who never got over the fact they didn’t get in themselves, or are bitter that their child didn’t. Either way, it’s just ridiculous and reflects so poorly on them (even in an anonymous forum).

[Anonymous]

If that makes you feel better about Brown's situation, you should keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If that makes you feel better about Brown's situation, you should keep telling yourself that.

Brown's "situation"? Being a top academic institution with a single-digit acceptance rate? Brown does not need to care how I feel, or you. It's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for women skiers and men XC/track members still at the school. Not only are their programs cut, but their friends of the opposite gender still get to compete.

How many kids remain on these rosters more than first and second year? Sports at Ivies always seemed like a way to backdoor in rich kids and diversity admits -- who are nudged to quit after a season or two, so they can give their roster spots to the next wave of rich kids and diversity admits.