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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown is trying to cross a LAC with a research university. You can argue it doesn't do either as well as a place committed to only one but the effort has some good payoff for undergrads.

Most academic departments are ranked for grad students not undergrads but Brown still is solid in most areas and outstanding in a few (like cog sci). I would rather be an undergrad than a grad student at Brown, but vice-versa for Harvard. [/quote]

Even for cog science Brown is barely in the top 10. Brown is solid/good is many areas but outstanding in practically none.  It could try to be the ivy with the biggest reputation for undergraduate focus but it even loses that title to Dartmouth, which does a much better job for kids who want the LAC feeling/undergrad focus.

So where does this leave Brown? I like Brown but imho it has completely dropped the ball and it is finding it very hard to compete with most other top schools nowadays.

The strength of a department affects undergraduates too. Definitely not as much as it does graduate students but it still does. The opportunities available for a top kid at Harvard cannot be matched by what Brown offers. [/quote]

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