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[quote=Anonymous]Entirely subjective.

Wasn't it widely reported that the vast majority of Harvard graduates graduate with a cum laude?

Grade inflation is rampant everywhere. How do you know grading is easier at Brown than other Ivies?

And let's not forget, we're talking about very highly accomplished and intelligent students. They are, by default, going to be doing well.

Brown's open curriculum may give off the impression that students can be lazy. But how do you know this? Just because the potential to slack might be there doesn't mean the students are going to be lazy. From my understanding most students at Brown take advantage of the open curriculum to be very high performing by focusing on the subjects they're interested in. So that's a different angle and that's what Brown uses to distinguish itself from the other schools. As it is, from what I remember from a Brown information session, despite the open curriculum the vast majority of students take a broad spectrum of classes and would meet the pre-reg requirements of most schools.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]lol @ implying Brown is an easy Ivy to get into, or it's where slackers apply. Look at the SAT to its elite peers, virtually indistinguishable.[/quote]

not easy in terms of getting in, easy in terms of getting out. In that regard brown sure is the easiest ivy. [/quote]

avg SAT

Brown, Duke, Penn 97 percentile 
Stanford 98
Harvard 99

virtually indistinguishable[/quote]

You are showing how easy it is to get in, and of course the differences are small amongst these schools. But in terms of how rigorous it is once you get in, Brown is the easiest ivy (high grade inflation, open curriculum, no GPAs are calculated, failing grades are not recorded etc). this is what we mean by easier. [/quote][/quote]

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