<p>Lol... milk... I'm not the arguing type, but in case anyone is in the same situation as me or if some future decider pulls up this thread... i think its necessary to call you flat out wrong in that its not a "no-brainer". This is a decision that will determine the next four years of my life and likely where they take me. I, for one, do not think this is a no-brainer if the difference was 30k. I've got my whole life ahead of me to earn money and pay back loans, but I'm only doing this college thing once, know what I mean? Don't say you can always transfer either... not the most pleasant experience and its not an "always" of course. </p>
<p>P.S. Dartmouth is not a "much better school". They're both AMAZING schools, and one is only better than the other if its a better fit for the particular person. I happen to prefer brown quite a bit : )</p>
<p>Don't forget to factor in the costs of defending lawsuits from your teachers if you go to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | Prof threatens lawsuit against her students</p>
<p>Well..I thought that by $500K , someone meant actually each year costs around $125K to the university etc...Because some state unis say things like you ll pay 28K but actually it costs us 60K and we get the differents from donors and state.</p>
<p>Wow... some of these Brown posters are damn bitter. </p>
<p>HAHA</p>
<p>ROFL! Dartmouth a better school than Brown. Put down the crack pipe. Proof? And it better not be the marginal SAT score amount that SAT-obsessed Dartmouth has over Brown. I personally really don't know any metric that really matters that anyone could say Dartmouth is a better school. I do know some metrics that suggest Brown is a much better intellectual environment than Dartmouth though. I've delineated them in another thread comparing Brown to Dartmouth, but if you insist, I'll respond to your assertion with a comprehensive delineation of Brown's superiority. First, though, show me all of your metrics indicating Dartmouth is a better school than Brown.</p>
<p>simmer down pinder....
B and D both rock. it comes down to personal taste. billman clearly prefers B and we should leave it at that.</p>
<p>the ~$500,000 figure comes from resources expended on educating a single student that are not recouped by tuition. for example, when Bill Clinton speaks on campus, it costs the university over $100,000 for a 2 hour event. when you use an fMRI to complete a lab assignment for a neuroscience class you are using machinery that costs millions. when you attend class in sayles hall, it costs the university an ungodly amount of money to educate you under chandeliers, stained glass, and flying buttresses (as opposed to flourescent lights and ceiling panels).
the basic point is tuition is just a fraction of what the university actually spends on educating you. this is the main advantage of going to a fancy ivy league university.</p>
<p>The figure is more like 70k for most schools. Probably less for brown because it's poor</p>
<p>As for "dishing" out the same financial aid....realize that Dartmouth only has mostly undergrads....and still spends the same money, if not more on undergrads. Whereas Brown...well...</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what the heck you're even saying strawboy.</p>
<p>Brown is mostly undergrads, we're spending similar amounts to peers on financial aid but as dcircle says most of it comes from how we chose to distribute. As mumzy can attest to, sometimes Brown gives more money...</p>
<p>False as compared to HYP, not as compared to Dartmouth, Penn, Cornell, etc.</p>
<p>here is a detailed summary of how brown allocates funding, with relevant tables at the end (note all figures are represented in thousands of $)
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Provost/committees/urc/URC08.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Provost/committees/urc/URC08.pdf</a></p>
<p>as you can see, the entire enterprise of educating students requires three quarters of a billion dollars each year in liquid resources (this does not even include the value added from nonliquid resources such as special library collections, museum holdings, etc.). </p>
<p>dividing this number by the total student body yields annual expenditures that are two-three times tuition, summing to $400-500 thousand dollars over four years of college.</p>
<p>Pinder is seriously out of whack. Brown is about on par with Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn. None of these schools is much better than the other. Get over yourself.</p>
<p>Brown is not worth spending 48k more than Dartmouth unless you really don't think you would fit in at Dartmouth</p>
<p>So how much does Brown spend on each undergraduate student per year? Is it more than the money that you pay or is it less than that? (I suppose it can't be less since it is non-profit or is it non-profit?)</p>
<p>the posts in this thread are ****ung ridiculous. brown and dartmouth are more or less the exact same in terms of quality of education. unless you like brown a LOT more than dartmouth, go to dartmouth, because it's also a great school where you'll probably be happy</p>
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<li>non delusional brown student</li>
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