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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students at Duke and Brown today are far more alike than they are dissimilar. Duke is not nearly as fratty and douchy as it may have once been. And Brown's reputation as some kind of pinko-commie-lefty haven for the purple-haired is far overblown. Both schools tend to draw from the same type of students - academically-motivated, fairly ambitious, social, a lot of private school kids, joiners rather than isolators.

Visit both. The campuses will have different vibes. Personally, I think Brown is a little run down and I don't love Providence. But it is an ivy in New England and that has its own mood - fairly close to Boston and NY, which many will like. Duke has a nicer campus. It's in the South but it doesn't really feel southern. It's probably a little more pre-professional than Brown. In either school, typical students will find their people. Duke, because of basketball and increasingly football, does have more of the traditional rah rah college atmosphere than Brown.

One thing to be mindful of is that for pre-med you'll want to go someplace where you can maintain a high GPA. Very important for med school. And students at Brown have the highest average GPA of any school in America. There's pass-fail. There's redoing tests and assignments. It's hard not to have an A average at Brown, which is good for the med school app.

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Mostly agree about visiting both and the stereotypes not holding, but this is a naive impression of academics at Brown. Yes, to P/F option, but that has to be declared early, not as a bailout; also, not so much to redoing assignments and tests. Not sure what this "list" is, but students are all over-acheivers to begin with and work very hard for a high GPA,  and it definitely isn't all As. Similar GPAs to Stanford and Harvard. I don't think this poster has any direct experience with Brown.[/quote]

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