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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Brown grads I know are exceedingly normal, one is super active in the junior league. It's not a great school academically (lots of grade inflation, very little rigor), but it's difficult to get in so the kids are bright.[/quote]

No, there is not "lots of grade inflation. " But GPAs tend to be higher because Brown encourages students to take some classes pass/fail (S/NC) to push them out of comfort zones. Also,  students can retake a class for new grade, and a failing class drops off. Neither policy affects the actual grading in any given course and both good for learning mindset and mental health. [/quote]

This is just grade inflation with more steps, and the only grades anyone is getting are As (https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/04/brown-grade-inflation-continues-to-soar-data-shows).

No college with zero general education requirements is interested in pushing anyone outside their comfort zone. It's very selective and the student body is rich, which is what a lot of people want, apparently. Academically, it's a joke. You can get a good education there, you can get a good education anywhere, but there's nothing to guarantee it.[/quote]

There is a huge gap between saying “there is nothing to guarantee you will get a good education” (which frankly I am not even sure I agree with) and “academically it’s a joke”.

If your kid isn’t grown up enough to take responsibility for their education then maybe they don’t belong at Brown.

Honestly the idea that you can you tell the quality of a college education by the average GPA of its graduates is so dumb that probably anyone who thinks that should stay far away from Brown. [/quote]

I'm smart enough to have graduated from a college where I had to earn my grades, so there's that. Either way, I've only shared facts. Grade inflation at Brown is rampant even by Ivy League standards. There's no guarantee that any Brown graduate ever had to learn outside of areas where they expected to excel. There's no guarantee that their GPA reflects anything like their abilities over every course they took. If that sounds like academic rigor to you, you're free to encourage your child to attend. I'm free to keep dumping those resumes at the bottom of the pile, because in my experience, Brown grads are highly credentialed but very average and without much mettle.[/quote]

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