<p>that first post made me want to withdraw my app
for the record</p>
<p>GWB</p>
<p>I've currently - by currently I mean in like the last 2 weeks - have grown a respect for Brown that I didn't have previously. Most likely because of the Simpsons making fun of it and it being a little too far from home for me (I hate travelling).</p>
<p>Anyway, if I get deferred or rejected ED by Penn (god) I'm applying to Brown....</p>
<p>better late than never.....</p>
<p>What do you like so much about Penn that made you apply ED?</p>
<p>I'm asking in earnest. As a Boston resident all my life, I've practically lived on Harvard's campus, I've seen Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth, and I've heard about Yale, Princeton, and Cornell, but I know absolutely nothing about Penn. I didn't even know it was in Philadelphia until this year.</p>
<p>If I don't get in ED to Brown, I'm applying to Penn (and seven other schools), so I'd be really interested to know why you chose it.</p>
<p>then the other posts made me glad to be applying
gwb</p>
<p>why I applied ED to Penn, some of them may only apply to me:</p>
<p>I love Philadelphia. I go to HS in downtown Philly, and only a mile from Penn. I love going to concerts and all that jazz. Philly sometimes gets skipped over by some bands though... NYC always gets preferential treatment I hate NYC lol. BTW, Philadelphians hate NYC... I love cheesesteaks also. Theres only one place outside of Philly that makes a decent cheesesteak... and that place is a half mile from Philly lol.</p>
<p>I absolutely LOATHE travelling. I mean... I think Columbia is far and thats only 75 minutes away. Princeton is even far enough to upset me. The train or car ride alone to Penn is enough to **** me off. I said it before, Browns distance kinda deterred me for a little bit but I think I could manage.</p>
<p>Penn has awesome students - very social, active, diverse (10000 undergrads). Liberals, conservatives, freaks, geeks, greeks (frats and sororities), and hundreds of hot asian women lol. for the record im not asian. it is a highly drinking campus but Im certain theres nondrinkers like me there....</p>
<p>I know a little over 10 students there, that would ease the transition to college I think.</p>
<p>my school sends several kids to Penn every year, again having friends coming in helps a lot I think. it certainly did for high school.</p>
<p>now for more concrete stuff that can apply to (almost) everyone: </p>
<p>Penn is awesome in every subject I want to study. I don't know exactly what but its a social science. And Penn happens to be awesome in Psychology, Linguistics, Sociology, and my current number 1 choice for major... Anthropology.</p>
<p>Penn has an anthropology museum that would be a resource no other Uni could offer.</p>
<p>Penn has a system where people in the college can still take engineering/ wharton classes. which would be cool if it turns out that I was wrong about what I wanted to study completely. Penns wharton school is rated the tops in the country if thats your thing. I dunno about engineering.</p>
<p>Penn has a curriculum thats pretty much like a LAC which is cool. I hear that its pretty flexible, too.</p>
<p>Penn's campus. Seriously. It's in the middle of a city... but when you step inside you feel like you're in a different place. Old classic Oxbridge style meets brick buildings meets new age buildings. It has cool stuff like a giant button in front of the library, or a statue of Ben Franklin sitting down welcoming you on a bench. The security is A LOT. Penn's police force is one of the largest in PENNSYLVANIA (a big state). It's not in the middle of the ghetto as some would let you believe. if youre not an idiot youd be fine.</p>
<p>If for some reason there's a course you want to take but its not offered that semester or ever... you can take classes at either Swarthmore, Haverford, or Bryn Mawr. It's called the Quaker Consortium (all 4 schools have quaker roots). It's mostly between Haverford and Bryn Mawr though, which are two awesome schools. In fact, if Penn rejects/defers me... I'm applying to Haverford and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Penn has a poker club.... I love poker. I play it very often, most likely tonight.</p>
<p>Penn has a much higher acceptence rate for native Philadelphians than normal people. That was also a reason, slightly.</p>
<p>Penn gives good financial aid. It's not like Harvard where they hand money out like candy but its apt and within reason.</p>
<p>All in all, I could be pretty much happy at any college, but I think I'd be happiest at Penn. Penn's not like a drastically different college at all but it has its quirks.</p>
<p>When I visited Penn... it was a far number 2. At the time I wanted to apply to Columbia ED... but Penn swayed me all the way to go ED there.</p>
<p>I hope that enlightened you a little bit.</p>
<p>I'm not that crazy about the security, but I like that Penn has good social sciences. I'm with you, I'm going to major in some social science, though I don't know which one. (In fact, that's a large part of why I didn't even consider applying to Columbia, Amherst, and a few other good schoolsthey don't have undergraduate linguistics departments.) I think I'd still rather go to Swarthmore*, but Penn definitely sounds like a good choice. Thanks!</p>
<p>[*edit: Of course, I'd rather go to Brown still. But I'm talking about backups. :P]</p>
<p>haha gwb, i'm an asian from philly. that cracks me up. and i don't think bands skip over us at all, the troc and the tla get all the awesome music.</p>
<p>punchline05... yeah most bands don't skip us over.</p>
<p>But if you're someone like me who likes weird European music... like Sigur Ros or Bjork.. you'll get screwed over sometimes. And it happening once or twice is enough to **** me off lol. I remember A Perfect Circle skipped us over I was like wtf damn you. But they eventually came a whole 8 months later....</p>
<p>is it harder to get into brown or penn?</p>
<p>sunkist... brown is harder to get into. Brown is 18%, Penn is 21%.</p>
<p>Penn accepts a lot ED so RD the two percentages might be closer. Penn receives more apps than Brown, but also has more space. Penn accepts 4,000 students of which 2,500 matriculate usually.</p>
<p>purpletransience... some schools do have Ling courses as part of their Anthropology department. I don't know anything about being able to get a degree though. Some schools as you probably know have Sociology and Anthropology in the same department together but most allow you to choose one of the other for a degree path.</p>
<p>I was actually considering MIT for Anthropology, Linguistics and all that. MIT is really good in them. But then I looked at the core curriculum and it scared the death out of me. Physics... Calculus... Chemistry... oh the humanity!</p>
<p>Hey linguistics people! Have you come across those schools that offer concentrations in linguistics but don't offer actual linguistics courses? What's the deal with those?</p>
<p>I could venture a guess that the school doesn't get any (or very few so they cant have a full program) Linguistics majors, but have some students (Anthro majors, English majors, etc) interested in a few courses and maybe a minor?</p>
<p>How many people does Brown's Egyptology program get a year? lol</p>
<p>If you really really wanted to go to Brown, couldn't you just say that your intended major was Egyptology and write about that in your "Why do you want to go to Brown" question? It seems like that would have to make at least a little difference. :p</p>
<p>I sort of did that by picking classics, but I have the greek and latin courses to back it up. And I actually am thinking of majoring in classics. The Medieval Cultures that I put second though...</p>
<p>me too actually. (well, not latin, but i figure that taking ancient greek courses in high school is good enough.) of course, now i really want to be a literary arts (i.e. creative writing) major, but that's not going to exist till my sophomore year... conveniently, when i have to declare my concentration. ;)</p>
<p>so is it bad that i put down biology major? i mean i really do want to major in that, but it's popular and i know i'm not going to be pre-med.</p>
<p>I've been told college students change their majors like 5 times on average, and I'm interested in just about everything I've studied so far, so I can't say I actually intend on majoring in anything specific. So yeah, I guess I mostly put down classics because it might help a bit and it wasn't just BS.</p>
<p>I put down Classics, Chemistry, and Linguistics, all of which are about as close to the mark as you can get. Brown has an awesome Anthropology-Linguistics concentration though, so yeah... :)</p>
<p>Aequitas,
I'm falling in love with Brown and I don't know what to do. I'm trying to transfer out of my current school (which is wonderful but literally one of the tiniest colleges in the US and its all girls...which just isn't ok) but don't know if i should bother applying to brown. I have a 1350 on SAT and all in the 600s for SAT II. However, I was homechooled....didn't even know i had to take SAT IIs until dec of senior year. However, I took college classes spring semester of senior yr and got all 4.0s and so far this semester seems to be going well. Should I bother applying? Do you know if Brown would be interested in someone w/o a formal education before college? Don't know if you know anything about this but just thought i would ask. thanks.</p>
<p>If I went to Brown, I'd probably take an Egyptology class. It would defintely be good for an Anthropology major.</p>
<p>I don't know what culture I'd like to study specifically though, theres a lot of really interesting ones - Middle Eastern Culture, European Pagan culture, Native Americans etc.</p>