<p>Your thoughts?</p>
<p>brown definitely!</p>
<p>Brown by a million times.</p>
<p>Definitely Brown. I applied to both Berkeley and Brown as well, but I’d definitely go to Brown over Cal. From what I hear, students at Berkeley aren’t nearing as great as those at Brown.</p>
<p>or as happy</p>
<p>Oh jeez, BROWN!</p>
<p>I can see maybe Cal if its $ issues, but if you’re OOS go to Brown if you are given that option!!</p>
<p>We get transfers from Berkeley.</p>
<p>My son considered both (both OOS). For us the tipping point was the financial state of affairs in CA. We figured you don’t really know what you’re buying in CA right now–will the quality of the education suffer? Also, undergrads can definitely fall thru the cracks more at Berkeley. Anyway, he’s at Brown and things are going well so far this year. From the parents’ perspective, being in the same time zone is nice! </p>
<p>Maybe Brown undergrad, Berkeley grad??</p>
<p>spanglish: Actually, for someone out of state, you pay close to a private school tuition, so unless you live in California, it all comes down to preference and education.</p>
<p>^ I know. I was saying if you are OOS, why would you choose Berkley over Brown? If you’re going to pay an equal amount of money for both schools, go with Brown.</p>
<p>If you live in California, and you cannot pay for an education at Brown, then go to Berkley. I believe that is what my original post said?</p>
<p>@RileyJohn: I’m intrigued that you actually thought you would get an unbiased assessment in Brown vs. Berkeley on the Brown forum. It would seem to me like you’re already leaning towards Brown and this is more of a ‘convince me I should choose Brown over Berkeley’ thread. Anyway, there are just way too many factors to be considering so until you tell us what you’re looking for in a college, it remains a tough choice. Things such as your major and your patterns of learning (can you stand Berkeley’s profusion of large lecture-style classes? and so on) will factor in.</p>
<p>thanks everyone. And srrinath, I knew i’d get a biased opinion here, which is why I posted the same thread in the Berkeley forum. Oddly enough, THEY all said go to Brown. Hah, I really do hear some horror stories about Berkeley, but, I do live in California. So the price is nice.</p>
<p>There are a lot of CA people at Brown.</p>
<p>Sorry spanglish, you’re right. I read your post too quickly and misunderstood.</p>
<p>This is a tough decision since you are a CA resident. My dd was admitted to both. She got to go to Brown on the superior financial aid, so it was a reverse money issue. But she really wanted to go to school ‘away’. It was good for her, in terms of life experience. The first year had the usual adjustment problems, but she wouldn’t trade Brown for anything.</p>
<p>Brown was also good for her in terms of research experience as an undergrad and access to professors.</p>
<p>At Cal, you’d have to be self motivated and competitive for your first two years, then the upper division should be quite good. At Brown, all years will be quite good. And Brown have a very collaborative environment that dd appreciated.</p>
<p>P.S. I really wanted her to go to Cal, thought that would be a no brainer, but Brown was perfect for her</p>
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<p>If you can’t pay for an education at Brown and are admitted (which is the assumption upon which this discussion rests), Brown is committed to funding the difference between your EFC and your cost of attendance.</p>
<p>If you are able to pay your EFC. With money, we shouldn’t make any assumptions about a person’s situation, as they may have a relatively high EFC and a relatively low ability to pay. Overall, I approve of Brown’s finaid policies, and I think they work well for most people, but individual circumstances may lead to individual financing problems.</p>
<p>Brown. Cal would probably cost me more because of all the tuition increases + I wouldn’t want to go to such a huge school with a competitive environment.</p>
<p>probably brown- open curriculum+pass/fail
EECS is pretty good at berkeley tho if you’re majoring in that area</p>