The dorms are fine and Brown keeps building new ones. Surprised by people who are down on Providence. It't not NYC, but I think it's a perfect college town. Great restaurants and bars, museums, easy access to the beach, walkable, What's not to like?

Brown is indeed a bit sleepy. In a way that could be good for many kids but obviously not all

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Anonymous wrote:brown.edu/news/2023-12-15/early-decision

HEADLINE: Brown admits 898 early decision students to the undergraduate Class of 2028.
Selected from a pool of 6,244 applicants, the accomplished and talented admitted students reflect the University’s ongoing commitment to making a Brown education more accessible.

Math: 898/6244 = ~14%

Brown has 905 athletes/4= 227 for freshmen. Call it 240 freshmen with attrition. 240/898= 27%. Basically, 1/4 ED kids are athletes; not most.

https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details

Not everyone recruited is an athlete

Interesting. I wonder if the corollary is true.

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If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.

Ok, now we know you have no experience with this school. Sure, there are some very left wing (and some right wing), some super rich, but mostly UMC with some MC (like mine) and less affluent. Lots of great career movement after graduation.
Mine got into several T15 and chose Brown.

Actually, Brown along with Penn seems quite a bit more meritocratic than HYP where legacy, VIP, donor and faculty admit rates are very high still and where test optional admits are comparatively high. Unhooked very top students are more likely to get admitted to Brown, Penn and other non HYP where the BS factor is higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Admissions process = Rejected for my kid and all their high stat magnet school friends. Only admit was a sports recruit

Yup, sounds like Brown. Just a bunch of dumb jocks.

LOL! Sorry your kid and their friends weren't smart enough to get in.

Not a meritocracy. Read about it

DC is there now. Students are incredibly smart, intrinsically motivated, intellectually curious, and authentically supportive of one another. The vibe is decidedly not pre-professional, which is a good thing; yet law school, medical school and Ph.D outcomes are very strong. Brown is the Ivy that has changed the most (in a positive way) in the last decade IMO. Almost 2/3 of students concentrate in a STEM discipline, sometimes accompanied by a second concentration in the humanities or social sciences. Employment outcomes are great in technology, biotech, finance (especially quant shops), and media/entertainment. The data are all available about Brown’s outcomes. PPs’ comments are wrong or at least outdated. Brown has significantly reduced legacy admits.

I hae no skin in this game but you all sound like a bunch of people whose kids couldn't get in, so you need to bash it.

Anonymous wrote:Admissions process = Rejected for my kid and all their high stat magnet school friends. Only admit was a sports recruit

Yup, sounds like Brown. Just a bunch of dumb jocks.

LOL! Sorry your kid and their friends weren't smart enough to get in.

Anonymous wrote:Pros: open curriculum, good for a dc who wants to take it easy a bit after the HS admissions grind

Cons; popular majors are massively under resourced, very large classes. Intro to Econ has over 350 students in the room. CS Tutors can be asked one question only..and then you go to the back of the student queue. Providence is a really crappy town aside from college hill. Unless your DCs idea of fun is to hang with the visiting neighbors from Woonsocket over the weekend.

For some, it is a reasonable mean between big city and rural campuses. For others, just not the right fit.

Yikes. And people pay 88k a year for it. At least they can brag to their friends

If they can get in to any other Ivy, seriously go there instead. It's a super woke rich kid mecca who never get defined careers after graduation. Not a lot of pride or school spirit, it's pretty sleepy. You are paying for the name and in certain circles, it's kind of a joke.

Brown kids take a lot of initiative. One started a thread on DCUM seeking career advice!

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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid there now.

Pros. They like the liberal vibe. They love the flexibility to take anything they want pass/no pass. (And if a kid fails a course, it shows up on internal transcript for advisor to see, but not published on external transcript.). This encouraged my kid to take chances with hard CS courses and to not panic too much when a course wasn't going well.

Cons. Classes are quite large in the popular majors (econ, CS, math). (Kid doesn't mind this, but I kind of do.). Providence isn't much of a town--for fun, they go to Boston. Very run-down dorms and lousy cafeteria food.

We have heard about the dorms too. Not the best news for kid with allergies perhaps. Why don't they upgrade dorms, they must have the $?! So the food is not like at Bowdoin, too bad.

They built new dormitories..
https://www.brown.edu/news/2023-08-29/brook-street

Those end up being for seniors, if they can even get them. Trust me, most dorms are very spartan. I went to a regional lac and was shocked. So glad my kud is in financial aid. The full pay parents are outraged every year.

Pros: open curriculum, good for a dc who wants to take it easy a bit after the HS admissions grind

Cons; popular majors are massively under resourced, very large classes. Intro to Econ has over 350 students in the room. CS Tutors can be asked one question only..and then you go to the back of the student queue. Providence is a really crappy town aside from college hill. Unless your DCs idea of fun is to hang with the visiting neighbors from Woonsocket over the weekend.

For some, it is a reasonable mean between big city and rural campuses. For others, just not the right fit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:brown.edu/news/2023-12-15/early-decision

HEADLINE: Brown admits 898 early decision students to the undergraduate Class of 2028.
Selected from a pool of 6,244 applicants, the accomplished and talented admitted students reflect the University’s ongoing commitment to making a Brown education more accessible.

Math: 898/6244 = ~14%

Brown has 905 athletes/4= 227 for freshmen. Call it 240 freshmen with attrition. 240/898= 27%. Basically, 1/4 ED kids are athletes; not most.

https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details

Not everyone recruited is an athlete