<p>hey all,</p>
<p>What do you know about Brandies University is terms of its reputation/respectability?</p>
<p>bump...........</p>
<p>I believe you mean Brandeis. ("Brandies university" sounds like the name of a high brow party school.)</p>
<p>It's certainly respectable, and has a good reputation.</p>
<p>It was founded in 1947, a time when most (all?) of the Ivy League schools had quotas restricing the number of Jewish students who could be admitted. It quickly became a very popular destination for many excellent students who wereunfairly turned away elsewhere.</p>
<p>When those quotas wre abolished, many students who might have chosen Brandeis in an earlier era went elsewhere. Still, it remains a well respected school. Robert Reich (Clinton's first Secretary of Labor, and a just famous writer and comentator on economic matters who coined the term "symbolic analysts") teaches there.</p>
<p>Brandeis remains ~60% Jewish to this day; however it is not a Jewish university. It has no affiliation with any synagogue. It has the best Judaic and Near Eastern Studies department if you are interested in studying those topics. It is also very small for a research university (~3000 undergrads and ~1000 grads), so you can get a lot of the advantages of a liberal arts college, with the advantages of a research university.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Brandeis is not known for amazing social life. I have some good friends who go there and love it. I have visited them many times, and there isn't always too much to do on campus. Students mostly seems to head into Boston on the weekends.</p>
<p>I see. But for example, if I did my BA at Brandeis, and then wanted to go to Harvard gard school, will good grades at Brandeis under grad be respected at harvard (or any Ivy for that matter)?</p>
<p>Definitely, Brandeis grades would be well-respected at any grad school.</p>
<p>thnx everyone!</p>