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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP. No one said that Dartmouth and Brown are LACs. Both schools proclaim themselves as liberal arts colleges. [/quote]

Oh yeah?  Where is that, exactly?

https://home.dartmouth.edu/about
Says "Liberal Arts at the Core" which does NOT mean it is an LAC - if it does then so is Columbia.  https://bulletin.columbia.edu/columbia-college/core-curriculum/

Dartmouth also says this [i]"More than 75 centers and institutes offer expanded learning and research in areas as diverse as medicine, the arts, engineering, and business. Many are interdisciplinary and bring together faculty and students from across campus to work on complex issues."[/i]

https://www.brown.edu/academics
[i]Brown is a leading research university and the seventh-oldest college in the U.S.[/i]

You don't even know what a liberal arts college is.  You know that nearly every university in the country contains one, right?  So, bullshit.

[quote=Anonymous]I don't even know about Brown because it is a complete non-entity in academia.[/quote]

This is some nuclear-grade stupid.

[i]As of November 2019, nine Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown as alumni, faculty, or researchers, as well as seven National Humanities Medalists and ten National Medal of Science laureates.[/i]

https://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/news/2016/10/professor-michael-kosterlitz-awarded-2016-nobel-prize-physics#
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/11/brown-alum-wins-nobel-memorial-prize-in-economics-sciences

So many more but I will stop and repeat that you are an embittered idiot.

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Brown really is not highly ranked in any graduate discipline. Both schools emphasize their undergraduate and liberal arts focus. Again, who called either school an LAC and why are you so angry?[/quote]

I am angry because I hate stupid, and this idea is stupid and it has been said here before, probably by the same hater of both schools.  And it is not objectively delivered stupid, it is intended to be pejorative.

Calling a school "an LAC like university" is a stupid, comical oxymoron.  Columbia also has a strong Liberal Arts focus.  Is that also an "LAC like university"?   Princeton has a similar number of graduate students as Brown and Dartmouth.  Is that also an "LAC like university"?  Having an undergraduate focus does NOT make a university "LAC like".

As for your comment "Brown really is not highly ranked in any graduate discipline"

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/brown-university-217156/overall-rankings[/quote]

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