<p>i<em>wanna</em>be_Brown: How if Brown students graduate and attend another school’s MBA program. Any difference? Besides, i believe there are some students enter the wall street right after graduate. I don’t like wall street much either, whether to establish MBA program at Brown is another topic that can put under discussion.</p>
<p>Of course there is a difference between creating graduate programs at Brown and students attending another school’s graduate programs. In the sciences for example, more graduate students means less opportunities for undergraduates to get involved in research. I imagine that similarly, if there were MBA candidates running around, Economics or Applied Math undergrads might find opportunities to do things outside of the classroom to be more limited and competitive. Similarly, more graduate TAs and fewer undergrad TAs and potentially fewer courses taught by real professors because senior graduate students could do them.</p>
<p>I have nothing against wall street. If you read my post, you will see the only thing I object to is creating a program largely for the purpose of creating students with graduate degrees that can donate large amounts of money. I did not say, but I would be opposed to creating graduate programs for the sake of increasing our ranking. If someone would like to outline a list of specific benefits an MBA program provides that does not include either of the ones I would be opposed to I would be glad to hear it.</p>
<p>Do Harvard, Wharton business school at UPenn, Columbia, and Dartmouth all have MBA programs? Will it hurt their alumni’s intimacy/loyalty? i don’t think so. I am not here to advocate to have a MBA program at Brown, or not having one. I am neutral.</p>
<p>To create/expand a program in a university is largely based on the influence or impact can bring to the local and global economy. i.e. the need of the society and the fulfillment of the school’s long-term goal/mission. Minor issues such as TAs or classroom size all can be solved by careful planning and adjustment.</p>
<p>BUMPing this back up for the newest wave of acceptances</p>
<p>I’m currently deciding between UCSD (bioengineering) and Brown’s premed (with the goal of applying for med school later). I hear that research at Brown is more difficult to find and/or of a lesser quality than UCSD, which is known for its extensive research opportunities. Did you find it difficult to obtain research opportunities at Brown?</p>
<p>Also, do medical/graduate schools take note of Brown’s known pass/fail allowances and its grade inflation?</p>
<p>i dont know anyone who has had trouble finding research. I got 2 papers (both nature publishing group journals) out of one summer. Does that sound ample/good enough?</p>
<p>Brown students are incredibly successful in med/grad school admissions.</p>
<p>How competitive would you say the atmosphere at Brown is compared to schools like Duke or UCSD?</p>
<p>read my original post on this thread</p>
<p>Research is an expectation and requirement for virtually all ScBs at Brown. You won’t find any universities where it is easier to do research. There are some where it’s equally easy, but none that surpass.</p>
<p>@I<em>wanna</em>be_Brown you say that the premed at Brown is more enjoyable, so does that mean it is easier? and how well do you feel Brown pre-med prepared you? also please chance me if you could!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1528628-chance-me-brown.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1528628-chance-me-brown.html</a></p>
<p>I mean I find it easier if I enjoy something more because I feel more motivated to work but I definitely don’t think the classes at Brown are any easier than any place else. At Brown there aren’t pre-med tracks where courses are watered down (except physics I guess). You take the same gen chem and orgo as the chem majors, the same bio classes as kids looking to do (or if your go high enough, currently working on) PhDs in bio. Not having classes curved means you’re not competing against your classmates and will readily find students willing to work together but that doesn’t mean it’s easier to do well - it just means doing well is solely about learning the material, not besting your classmates.</p>
<p>I feel that Brown prepared me extremely well for med school. The first year I had encountered nearly every topic before (biochem in BI28, cell bio in BI50, cardiovascular/pulmonary/renal physiology in BI 80, immunology in BI53, parasites in BI155, elements of anatomy in BI188, endocrinology in BI30, neuroscience/neuroanatomy in Neuro 1 and CG44). Obviously you go in more depth and more quickly in med school, but it certainly helped to have seen the basics before.</p>
<p>I don’t do chances.</p>
<p>Thanks so much this was helpful. And were you PLME</p>
<p>That question is answered in my first post and in subsequent posts on this thread.</p>
<p>BUMPing in honor of the 2018 class!</p>
<p>Also I want to welcome Tina Cohen-Chang '17 to the list of illustrious fictional Brown alumni.</p>
<p>Did she (Tina Cohen-Chang) get in? I haven’t watched the latest episode; last I heard she was waitlisted. Go Tina!</p>
<p>How are the tutoring/support services for the Science classes? Is it easy to get lost among brilliant science majors?</p>
<p>I was accepted to Johns Hopkins but waitlisted at Brown. I’m planning on going into pre-med and know what a cut-throat kind of society JHU tends to have when it comes to pre-med. Is it worth trying to fight my way off the waitlist for Brown, or will I be more well-prepared for med school if I go to JHU?</p>
<p>Mathisamazing,</p>
<p>Hopefully someone else will chime in who has more first hand knowledge than I do. There is a peer tutoring network where older students tutor younger students for free (the school pays the tutors, not the students). I personally had a tutor for orgo 2 which was a grad student in chemistry. I emailed the prof for the class and he sent me her name (this I paid for out of pocket). Simple as that. So it would seem pretty easy to me to get help.</p>
<p>Rivero,</p>
<p>You will absolutely not be “more prepared” coming out of Hopkins. FWIW, I turned down Hopkins for Brown. I had a professor in med school who went to brown undergrad and then Hopkins med. she says Hopkins med was the worst 4 years of her life and everything brown wasn’t. That’s not really a fair comparison for you to use so I’ll be quite frank: I’m trying to bias you towards brown.</p>
<p>Just wanted to chime in (as a med student at top-20 school) and agree that Brown is an awesome place for pre-med! I’m especially appreciative when I hear my med school classmates talk about what it was like to be pre-med at other schools.</p>
<p>I’ve been hearing a lot about how Brown and Duke are both great for pre-med. What exactly are their respective advantages though? Is one significantly better in terms of quality of education or pre-med advisers? I’m looking to pre-med and I have to choose between the two.</p>