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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What hurts Brown is the fact that it has weak departments and very limited resources compared to the other top schools[/b]. Also their ultra-liberal and school-of-choice-for-celebs reputation (which is well-deserved) is not helping either. [/quote]

Elaborate, please.[/quote]

Most other ivies and top schools are quite stronger in most disciplines. Find me a major discipline where Brown is an established top 10 player. You would be hard-pressed to do so. Or find my a major college or university ranking where Brown performs exceptionally well. Again hard to do.

Regarding their resources look at their endowment, it is $3.5billion, the lowest in the ivy+ group. The average endowment of the ivy+ group (ivies, Stanford, MIT, UofC, Duke) is ~$15.7b. If you exclude HYPS as outliers the average is still $9.5b. no matter how you slice it Brown is way behind the curve.

Do you think Brown with its lackluster academic departments and limited endowment is able to keep up with most other elite schools in terms of recruiting the very best students, the very best faculty or investing in major capital projects and ground-breaking research? They can't...[/quote]

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