<p>Georgetown</p>
<p>^ Is that a joke?</p>
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I laughed a lot less at the suggestion of Georgetown than I did at the Brown suggestions!</p>
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Really? Let’s see…</p>
<p>-has to be a good college (Top 50?)
Check</p>
<p>-definitely work hard, play harder
Known for this</p>
<p>-have somewhat of a sports involvement/school spirit
Huge on spirit, sports is mixed. Depends on what circle you run with. We all love Brown, about 25% love Brown sports. Top of Ivy Football 2 times since I’ve been here, both exciting years. Top in baseball once as well. Frequently competitive in other areas.</p>
<p>-no competition amongst students
Known for this.
-preferably more than 20% jewish students
Approx. 25% Hillel possibly nicest modern building on campus, excellent Jewish life resources in both the Judaic Studies department and through programming at Hillel like hte Israeli Film Festival, organized trips, job opportunities, etc. Tight knit Orthodox community on the Eastside if that’s what you’re looking for.
-good dorms and food
Dorms are better than freshman housing most places, not as nice as you get older, excellent supply of off-campus homes in less than 1mile radius, food good.</p>
<p>-greek life
10% of Brown students involved in Greek Life, increases if you want to include program houses (which are the same minus national affiliations, really, if you ask me, residential communities built on common interests living in the same part of campus as the Greek societies).</p>
<p>-not too hard to get A’s and B’s/no grade deflation
check
-a city within a half hour radius.
Definite check
-a nice campus
Definite check</p>
<p>What’s so surprising IB other than your own strange bias? Brown matches up at least as well as many of the other schools mentioned.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t think the suggestion of Brown is incredulous at all.</p>
<p>In fact, I think it’s a great suggestion…</p>
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Hee! I’m not [at</a> all](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/163931-official-rd-class-2010-thread-5.html#post2059668]at”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/163931-official-rd-class-2010-thread-5.html#post2059668) biased against Brown. Read my past posts.</p>
<p>Brown isn’t a bad match, exactly. It’s just that others come to mind first. Even among the Ivies, Cornell and Penn (and perhaps Dartmouth) come to mind first. It’s the athletics and Greek life that makes the difference, I think; while Brown has them, they’re simply not as big or central as they are at many other universities. (About food…I’d say off-campus food is better, although food on campus isn’t bad.)</p>
<p>The suggestion of Georgetown is absurd.</p>
<p>^ Yes, lol, that’s why I thought it was a joke…</p>
<p>Jews comprise 1% of the total US population? .02% of the world population? </p>
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<p>I found your post funny as you said that your current neighborhood has ethnic groups that stick with their own, yet you want an unreasonable Jewish population to be present so that you can fit in with them.</p>
<p>It was only unreasonable because like 5 schools fit that description. Nothing wrong with the intent, but the % is high</p>
<p>I believe there is something wrong with the intent as a 25%+ Jewish population is not an accurate sample size of the world as a whole. I suggest trying Israel.</p>
<p>New York has more Jews than Israel…</p>
<p>Not in terms of %!</p>
<p>First of all to correct a previous poster, Jews comprise ~2% (6 million) of the U.S. population. Considering that Jewish people are hugely overrepresented at many of top 50 colleges that you’re concerned about, the request is not ridiculous, though there are only a handful of schools with Jewish populations above 20%. I these may have already been suggested, but if so I second them: UPenn, Wash U, Harvard
-has to be a good college (Top 50?) UPenn–6, Wash U–12, Harvard–1
-definitely work hard, play harder Certainly Penn, and to a lesser extent Harvard and Wash U
-have somewhat of a sports involvement/school spirit Harvard yes, Penn less so, Wash U less so because it’s DIII
-no competition amongst students Wash U is known for being less competitive than its peers, though others seem to disagree. Harvard and Penn probably don’t have more competitive students than most top schools
-preferably more than 20% jewish students Harvard–31%, Wash U–27%, UPenn–26%
-good dorms and food Definitely at Wash U and Harvard, not as much at Penn
-greek life I think all three have some greek life.
-not too hard to get A’s and B’s/no grade deflation None of these schools is known for this.
-a city within a half hour radius. Harvard–Boston (not to mention Cambridge), Wash U–St. Louis, Penn–Philly
-a nice campus Harvard and Wash U win this one, but Penn’s is pretty damn nice too.</p>
<p>Hardly an outrageous percentage, actually:
<a href=“http://reformjudaismmag.org/_kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=1380&destination=ShowItem[/url]”>http://reformjudaismmag.org/_kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=1380&destination=ShowItem</a></p>
<p>Yeshiva – 100%
Brandeis-- 55.2%
Barnard – 43.5%
Northwestern – 38%
University of Hartford-- 33%
Washington University – 33%
Emory – 30%
George Washington University – 30%
Muhlenburg College – 30%
Queens College – 30%
Yale University – 30%
CUNY Brooklyn – 29.7%
Goucher College – 29.6%
Binghamton – 29.5%
Oberlin – 29%</p>
<p>etc etc etc</p>
<p>25 schools listed on that PDF with 20% or more.</p>
<p>I must admit, Northwestern’s number seems a little elevated.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know, I’m not there, but the Brown number sounds right and that’s where I am now.</p>
<p>Hard to say how elevated these numbers are from Dubai…</p>
<p>I may be in Dubai now, but I am quite familiar with Northwestern. I am not saying there is a deliberate conspiracy mind you, it is just that I did not expect 40% of students at NW to be jewish. That is a pretty high number for a midwestern university with no religious affiliation.</p>
<p>Not really, considering vibrant Jewish communities in Chicago and Cleveland.</p>
<p>There is a vibrant Jewish community in NYC and yet, fewer than 25% of students at Columbia and NYU are Jewish. Anyhow, I just found the number (along with WUSTL’s) to be a little high that’s all.</p>