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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These people who keep saying doing well at STEM at UMD is easier than at Brown clearly know very little about UMD. It's very challenging and hard to get into and the kids are driven. There are a lot of GPA requirements and weed out classes in most of the STEM majors. And there are a lot of distribution requirements. (Source: two kids there in STEM majors)

Brown, in contrast, has a very liberal grading policy that allows kids to take things pass fail, drop a class easily, no distribution requirements, etc. There's a lot less room to mess up there. (Source: Brown alums)

So just stop with acting like Brown kids are so much smarter and more driven that UMD kids.

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No one is comparing UMD to Brown; the comparison is coming from a book quoting a woman who attended Brown but also got into UMD. The woman is a lawyer with decades of experience. The UMD vs Brown she is talking about happened decades ago before the book got published ' the book was published  decades prior. so we maybe talking 1980s or even 1970s.  Who knows what things were like back then but that wasn't the point.

the main point is the effects of: big fish in small pond or small fish in big pond.  That's it.  [/quote]

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