Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 17:51     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Having taught at Northwestern, I'd feel quite positively about a child of mine attending the school. The undergrads were bright, driven, seemed well adjusted and generally less neurotic than the students at, say, U Chicago.

Brown... eh. I know a lot of people who attended Brown. It seems like a great place if you've already got social connections; I'll just leave it at that.


Forbes...

Brown #9 (ahead of Columbia, Dartmouth, Chicago, Williams)

Northwestern #28

https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/


Forbes rankings rely on data from Niche. I laugh at data from Niche. By the transitive property I laugh at Forbes rankings.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 17:51     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Eh choosing between the second-worst and least prestigious Ivy and a lower non-Ivy elite. No huge differences in quality or prestige. Choose based on fit.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 17:48     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Yeah, if you want to become a STEM PhD, consider elsewhere for undergrad, I guess? But Brown is top 10 if not top 5 in sending grads to American medical schools.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 17:47     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brown has superior STEM offerings; Northwestern isn't really known for the sciences.


Neither is Brown, which is a joke in science and medicine -- those superior STEM offerings must live in your imagination or in some marketing brochure.


Brown has a med school. The sciences are hardly a joke. It’s an excellent college. I’m not sure why some people keep insisting Brown is a joke or has inferior academics. It’s certainly not Harvard but then again neither are the rest of the colleges in the US. It’s weird how some people have grudges against colleges they are not affiliated with.


Research expenditures:
NU- 713M- #29
Brown- 359M- #57

Not a joke, but not nearly as large of a research enterprise.


The total student population including grad students at Brown (9300) is less than half that of Northwestern (21000) so Brown more than holds its own on a per student basis.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 17:41     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
+1.

I'm the PP who said Brown is a joke in STEM, and I stand by it. That's my field, and in all the relevant literature I follow I rarely see any Brown researcher as PI. It's not a Top 50, sorry.


Just not so and a simple search proves it:

https://www.brown.edu/research/conducting-research-brown/annual-brown-research-prizes

https://www.brown.edu/research/conducting-research-brown/finding-funding/internal-funding-opportunities/2017-seed-and-salomon-awardees

(I know not all the research listed is STEM but much of it is)

And of course there was that "joke" of a Physics Nobel Prize in '16:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/10/nobel

PP if you were a STEM guy worth a crap you'd have posted some supporting data for your position. You didn't, because you are just trolling. Now, everyone, please stop feeding the troll.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 17:27     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brown has superior STEM offerings; Northwestern isn't really known for the sciences.


Neither is Brown, which is a joke in science and medicine -- those superior STEM offerings must live in your imagination or in some marketing brochure.


Brown has a med school. The sciences are hardly a joke. It’s an excellent college. I’m not sure why some people keep insisting Brown is a joke or has inferior academics. It’s certainly not Harvard but then again neither are the rest of the colleges in the US. It’s weird how some people have grudges against colleges they are not affiliated with.


Research expenditures:
NU- 713M- #29
Brown- 359M- #57

Not a joke, but not nearly as large of a research enterprise.


+1.

I'm the PP who said Brown is a joke in STEM, and I stand by it. That's my field, and in all the relevant literature I follow I rarely see any Brown researcher as PI. It's not a Top 50, sorry.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 14:09     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brown has superior STEM offerings; Northwestern isn't really known for the sciences.


Neither is Brown, which is a joke in science and medicine -- those superior STEM offerings must live in your imagination or in some marketing brochure.


Brown has a med school. The sciences are hardly a joke. It’s an excellent college. I’m not sure why some people keep insisting Brown is a joke or has inferior academics. It’s certainly not Harvard but then again neither are the rest of the colleges in the US. It’s weird how some people have grudges against colleges they are not affiliated with.


Research expenditures:
NU- 713M- #29
Brown- 359M- #57

Not a joke, but not nearly as large of a research enterprise.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2018 12:36     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brown has superior STEM offerings; Northwestern isn't really known for the sciences.


Neither is Brown, which is a joke in science and medicine -- those superior STEM offerings must live in your imagination or in some marketing brochure.


Brown has a med school. The sciences are hardly a joke. It’s an excellent college. I’m not sure why some people keep insisting Brown is a joke or has inferior academics. It’s certainly not Harvard but then again neither are the rest of the colleges in the US. It’s weird how some people have grudges against colleges they are not affiliated with.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2017 22:57     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:Brown has superior STEM offerings; Northwestern isn't really known for the sciences.


Neither is Brown, which is a joke in science and medicine -- those superior STEM offerings must live in your imagination or in some marketing brochure.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2017 20:14     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
So Lincoln-Park dweller, how did you get to NU's campus? El or Sheridan Rd.?
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2017 16:01     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
I think brown gives kids too much freedom to figure out what constitutes the right set of classes for their interests. Works out well when a kid is unusually together, but many kids need more structure.

I'd pick NU.

Plus, visit on a sunny spring day and the lake will convince you it is a great place.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2017 15:45     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:Having taught at Northwestern, I'd feel quite positively about a child of mine attending the school. The undergrads were bright, driven, seemed well adjusted and generally less neurotic than the students at, say, U Chicago.

Brown... eh. I know a lot of people who attended Brown. It seems like a great place if you've already got social connections; I'll just leave it at that.


Forbes...

Brown #9 (ahead of Columbia, Dartmouth, Chicago, Williams)

Northwestern #28

https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2017 11:46     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
I live in Chicago for 5 years. "Downtown" is referring to the Loop and anything close to the loop. When I was in River North everyone called it "downtown".
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2017 11:28     Subject: Brown bs Northwestern
All I can figure is that by "downtown" PP means the Loop, which is largely offices, hotels, and institutional buildings, so lots of things are closed at night -- though it still has theaters and the Opera. West Loop has developed a pretty lively restaurant scene so it sounds like a pretty dated assessment even then.

Chicago has lots of fun places/neighborhoods for nightlife.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2017 10:53     Subject: Re:Brown bs Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Good thing it's not true in the slightest. I spent 4 years at NU for undergrad and 2 for grad school and never knew a single undergrad to live in downtown Chicago. Why would they want to? Downtown Chicago is not a particularly lively place for college students/young adults as a PP said and for those who have internships/jobs/whatever downtown - it's a very easy ride on the EL or Metra. The majority of undergrads at NU live on campus and those who don't almost always live in Evanston, right by NU.

I wish posters wouldn't spread such blatantly false information.


When did you graduate?

Downtown Chicago isn't lively? wtf