"Brown is a university only as a function to improve its undergraduate college. There is a distinct difference between an institution with a small graduate program and an institution which designs its graduate school to better its undergraduate offerings. Brown is the latter. This is what lies at the heart of the university-college…
Brown is a university-college, and has been for many years (President Wriston or Wayland in the early 20th century wrote a lot about this idea I cant remember which at the moment). The university-college exists to ensure the small liberal arts college advantage for undergraduate education with the backing of a full-fledged, world-class research institution. "
If you have not had your interview yet, I am pretty sure knowing university-college concept will get you extra points … maybe that would be the deciding factor on the final committee table if you have everything else in place.
According to Wiki’s ballpark figures, Harvard has 14,500 postgraduates and 6,700 undergraduates while Brown has 6,580 undergraduates and 2,255 postgraduates. If you really must talk about rankings, Brown has consistently ranked near the top of National Universities Best Undergraduate Teaching. As USNWR itself puts it – “Many colleges have a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates instead of conducting graduate-level research. In a survey conducted in spring 2017, the schools on these lists received the most votes from top college administrators for putting a particular focus on undergraduate teaching.” Just remember you are NOT going to a graduate school now.
Speaking of rankings, it is really a big joke how many colleges are going to extreme trying to manipulate the data. For entertainments, you could read
I’ve heard that you get the accepted portal thingie with an awaiting response from PLME or whichever program you applied to. Denial from the PLME has no effect on your acceptance. @hooverhoo
@BrKmNk Any idea when they are to update that? Apparently needs weeks ahead of the ivy day. Getting nervous as the time approaches, only 7 weeks from now. This forum is so quiet now and very few stats of past admitted available.
In the past, RD applicants have received their admission decision and PLME decision together on Ivy Day. There has not been advance notification to PLME candidates prior to the day when all applicants learn their decision.
Unless you receive a likely letter ahead of time for the undergraduate College then you will receive both admission decisions (undergraduate College and PLME) on Ivy day.
Wish you all the best of luck to be present at 255th Convocation, when new students march through Van Wickle Gates. Watch this video of 254th Convocation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWHNBRrY5io&app=desktop) from 6:25 for a couple minutes … Cheer up! Dream High!
Just joining this thread. It’s crazy to think that my future classmates/roommate could be in here somewhere. I applied RD and had my interview a couple weeks ago. Now I get to wait for (almost) two months to get my decision. Anyone else bubbling with anticipation/anxiety???
