Anonymous
Post 10/24/2017 12:10     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Read the article instead of looking like a fool? It's the top 10 list, so if those schools aren't there they must not be in the top 10, huh? It's not .047%, it's 4.7% (which is a lot when 7% of Brown students received a degree in CS according to the CDS).


Serious question: are you a teenager applying to Brown? Your discomfort with how rankings are calculated and to what ends, combined with your abusive snark, suggests somebody who isn’t terribly mature, huh?



This. Is Brown "hot"? OP, are you a teenager or student at Brown? A parent with a child at Brown? Have you posted other desperate threads about Brown? If so, "be happy where you are planted". These posts smack of a serious inferiority complex.


My guess is, somebody who’s paid to promote the school but is trying to look natural by tossing in words like “hot” and “huh” in ways that my teens would find cringe-inducing.

On a separate note, can I take a minute to bemoan the Breitbartization of online interactions, as evident in the Brown booster’s arrogant snark. Why do some posters try to make everything into a pissing contest?
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2017 08:46     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Read the article instead of looking like a fool? It's the top 10 list, so if those schools aren't there they must not be in the top 10, huh? It's not .047%, it's 4.7% (which is a lot when 7% of Brown students received a degree in CS according to the CDS).


Serious question: are you a teenager applying to Brown? Your discomfort with how rankings are calculated and to what ends, combined with your abusive snark, suggests somebody who isn’t terribly mature, huh?



This. Is Brown "hot"? OP, are you a teenager or student at Brown? A parent with a child at Brown? Have you posted other desperate threads about Brown? If so, "be happy where you are planted". These posts smack of a serious inferiority complex.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2017 03:21     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Brown is not considered HOT at our school. Most parents understand that the faculty, administration and student body have gone ultra left . . . to the point where a better education can be found elsewhere and often at significantly less cost. Also note the recent post in this index about Trustafarians at Brown. That's not the kind of environment I want my children to have for undergrad.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2017 01:10     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
At DCs prep school Brown is a last-resort ivy. This means that people will go there if they have no other ivy+Stanford, MIT options (Cornell excluded of course). Then again our prep school is very snooty and elitist so it is probably not representative.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 23:15     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Someone is triggered. Chill out. There's no need to post twice pretending to be two different users when it's clearly just you having a problem with Brown. FYI, I'm not a Brown alum nor do I have any connection with the school.

All I stated was that Brown had a great CS department and that it did especially well in feeding into Silicon Valley- the hub of tech.

You misread the link- incorrectly stated 0.047% when it was 4.7%- and believed that I cherry picked Brown in a favorable position at the disadvantage of other schools which you deem "better" even though I literally copied a top 10 list.

I corrected you- yes, I was snarky about it because you were too- and you think it was "abusive" and "obnoxious"? Seems like someone else needs to grow up.


You’re nuts. (really? on what basis?) I’m not the only person you’re bullying here. (I've only been replying to you, who is this other person?)

You’re a swaggering jerk (hmm, not sure where I was particularly arrogant or aggressive) who cherry picks rankings (like everyone else here trying to qualify Brown's CS department?) that fit his needs(this is a topic about BROWN and thus a discussion on its strengths is absolutely warranted. Also, I'm a her.). In this case, I agree it’s a fairly irrelevant ranking that probably measures finance majors not CS majors. (sure, I could believe that, but you could state it in a civil manner instead of resorting to ad-hominem)

If you’re representative of Brown in any way, that’s unfortunate. (I have no connection to Brown as stated. Unfortunate for you, really, since you have a clear vendetta against a fine school and are probably looking for ways to make it look worse)

Go stuff it. End of conversation (peace out).


Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 23:13     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Tech seems unrealistic unless you’re hired for the lobbying shop or something similar."

Flat out wrong, caught talking about an Ivy when you don't have the first clue.

16% of Brown grads enter tech. Engineer/computer science is one of the most popular concentrations.

https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/careerlab/class-2015-employment


Sorry to disappoint, but my kid went to a higher ranked Ivy with a CS program that’s ranked higher than Brown’s.

Being obnoxious on DCUM doesn’t make Brown a “top” CS school. I know from top CS schools. In fact, for CS your kid is better off at UMD.


Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 23:03     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:Someone is triggered. Chill out. There's no need to post twice pretending to be two different users when it's clearly just you having a problem with Brown. FYI, I'm not a Brown alum nor do I have any connection with the school.

All I stated was that Brown had a great CS department and that it did especially well in feeding into Silicon Valley- the hub of tech.

You misread the link- incorrectly stated 0.047% when it was 4.7%- and believed that I cherry picked Brown in a favorable position at the disadvantage of other schools which you deem "better" even though I literally copied a top 10 list.

I corrected you- yes, I was snarky about it because you were too- and you think it was "abusive" and "obnoxious"? Seems like someone else needs to grow up.


You’re nuts. I’m not the only person you’re bullying here.

You’re a swaggering jerk who cherry picks rankings that fit his needs. In this case, I agree it’s a fairly irrelevant ranking that probably measures finance majors not CS majors.

If you’re representative of Brown in any way, that’s unfortunate.

Go stuff it. End of conversation.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:53     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Someone is triggered. Chill out. There's no need to post twice pretending to be two different users when it's clearly just you having a problem with Brown. FYI, I'm not a Brown alum nor do I have any connection with the school.

All I stated was that Brown had a great CS department and that it did especially well in feeding into Silicon Valley- the hub of tech.

You misread the link- incorrectly stated 0.047% when it was 4.7%- and believed that I cherry picked Brown in a favorable position at the disadvantage of other schools which you deem "better" even though I literally copied a top 10 list.

I corrected you- yes, I was snarky about it because you were too- and you think it was "abusive" and "obnoxious"? Seems like someone else needs to grow up.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:45     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:Read the article instead of looking like a fool? It's the top 10 list, so if those schools aren't there they must not be in the top 10, huh? It's not .047%, it's 4.7% (which is a lot when 7% of Brown students received a degree in CS according to the CDS).


Serious question: are you a teenager applying to Brown? Your discomfort with how rankings are calculated and to what ends, combined with your abusive snark, suggests somebody who isn’t terribly mature, huh?
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:40     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:Read the article instead of looking like a fool? It's the top 10 list, so if those schools aren't there they must not be in the top 10, huh? It's not .047%, it's 4.7% (which is a lot when 7% of Brown students received a degree in CS according to the CDS).



Several lists have been posted where Brown doesn’t figure in the top 10. You think you can pick your favorite list and then insult (childishly, too) everybody who disagrees?

FWIW, this particular list is based on the share of a class that goes to Silicon Valley.

- This says nothing, nada, zilch about the quality of a school’s CS program.

- It says nothing, nada, zilch about what these kids are doing in Silicon Valley, which could easily be management or finance. Nobody is disputing that Brown, like other Ivies, has its share kids who go into finance.

As an aside, if a childish, obnoxious jerk like you is an example of Brown’s “vibe,” then you can keep it.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:28     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:I can confirm Brown is a top notch school for CS and among the best in the Ivies for it

Brown actually feeds more per capita into Silicon Valley than Berkeley: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/17/the-top-10-colleges-that-fuel-the.html?page=all

Stanford University: 0.193
Harvey Mudd College: 0.191
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): 0.133
Yale University: 0.112
Duke University: 0.083
Dartmouth College: 0.072
Princeton University: 0.066
Harvard University: 0.053
Brown University: 0.047
University of California, Berkeley: 0.035



Oh great. A ranking that’s based on class size. Yay.

Carnegie Mellon and CalTech don’t even appear on your list, but do you seriously believe Brown’s CS Program is stronger than these?

This ranking has little to do with the strength of CS programs at the different schools. It’s probably more reflective of the strength of the business schools, for kids who are going into the finance/marketing side of tech companies.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:24     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Read the article instead of looking like a fool? It's the top 10 list, so if those schools aren't there they must not be in the top 10, huh? It's not .047%, it's 4.7% (which is a lot when 7% of Brown students received a degree in CS according to the CDS).
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:17     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:I can confirm Brown is a top notch school for CS and among the best in the Ivies for it

Brown actually feeds more per capita into Silicon Valley than Berkeley: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/17/the-top-10-colleges-that-fuel-the.html?page=all

Stanford University: 0.193
Harvey Mudd College: 0.191
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): 0.133
Yale University: 0.112
Duke University: 0.083
Dartmouth College: 0.072
Princeton University: 0.066
Harvard University: 0.053
Brown University: 0.047
University of California, Berkeley: 0.035



O.047% of Brown’s graduating class goes to Silicon Valley? Are we supposed to be impressed?

Now the stats for MIT, Harvey Mudd and Stanford are something.

You didn’t include stats for Carnegie Mellon, CalTech, Georgia, Penn, Columbia, or any of the many other schools that are ranked higher for CS than Brown. Cute.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:12     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
Anonymous wrote:"Tech seems unrealistic unless you’re hired for the lobbying shop or something similar."

Flat out wrong, caught talking about an Ivy when you don't have the first clue.

16% of Brown grads enter tech. Engineer/computer science is one of the most popular concentrations.

https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/careerlab/class-2015-employment


Sorry to disappoint, but my kid went to a higher ranked Ivy with a CS program that’s ranked higher than Brown’s.

Being obnoxious on DCUM doesn’t make Brown a “top” CS school. I know from top CS schools. In fact, for CS your kid is better off at UMD.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2017 22:11     Subject: Is Brown hot at your child's school?
I can confirm Brown is a top notch school for CS and among the best in the Ivies for it

Brown actually feeds more per capita into Silicon Valley than Berkeley: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/17/the-top-10-colleges-that-fuel-the.html?page=all

Stanford University: 0.193
Harvey Mudd College: 0.191
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): 0.133
Yale University: 0.112
Duke University: 0.083
Dartmouth College: 0.072
Princeton University: 0.066
Harvard University: 0.053
Brown University: 0.047
University of California, Berkeley: 0.035