<p>Hey guys!</p>
<p>I’m a student currently at a UT Austin in Texas and just got accepted to UPenn CAS and Brown.</p>
<p>I’m having a tough time trying to choose between the two. As a transfer and premed student, which school would you guys say I’m better off at? Also, coming from Austin, I’ve adopted a work hard/play hard kind of attitude so I don’t really want to study all the time…</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>either one's good. go to brown if you wanna be a total stoner and come out of the closet. go to penn if ur looking for the more traditional type of fun: alcohol, and the ladies...or men...whatever floats your boat</p>
<p>hahaha.....</p>
<p>If you are premed go to Brown. The grade inflation and less pre-professional peers (less competition) will help you. And I think Brown is one of the top five colleges in terms of med school acceptance rates.</p>
<p>there are lots of threads about being pre-med at brown. i think brown is a fantastic place and personally had a wonderful pre-med experience there.</p>
<p>visit both, go with your gut. you can't lose. congrats on your acceptances!</p>
<p>I would go to brown personally.</p>
<p>I would go to penn personally ;)</p>
<p>I like how addy actually has tangible reasons to back up his/her choice. Well done.</p>
<p>Brown all the way.</p>
<p>If you are doing PRE-MED I would say you'd be better of at Cornell. However, I LOVEE BROWN, so I don't know what to tell you outside of the Pre-Med spectrum.</p>
<p>Why would anyone be better at Cornell? Brown has a much higher placement rate and much less grade deflation. Total bs.</p>
<p>dude, seriously, go to brown. penn is so pre-professionally oriented and its way too big. brown has a lott of curriculim flexibility and don't listen to those who say that the open curriculum just makes stoners. Brown has a crapload of amazingly smart, engaged, hard-working people as well. Brown is so much cooler. </p>
<p>But I will say, Penn has more interesting athletics, more school spirit and slightly better location. But, they also have a very segregated campus because of the multi-tieredness that the multiple schools create. </p>
<p>so in conclusion, brown.</p>
<p>Less pre-professional peers at Brown? Are you serious? Look at how overfilled the organic chemistry classes are! Look into the eyes of those gradegrubbing students. Tell me you aren't scared. Brown has a pretty huge population of premeds; only ivy with a greater percentage would be cornell.</p>
<p>You are in the Brown forum. What answers did you expect? :)</p>
<p>I expect the truth sir. Of course there will always be some sort of spin, but that does not give Brownies a free pass to lie to the pre-frosh or transfers. Brown is not for everyone. And though the world at large seems to think that the kids here are super, almost-painfully friendly, they are not. They can be just as cut-throat. The main difference between Brown and other colleges, such as Penn is the homogeneity of its students (not to be confused with school spirit). Everyone thinks alike; they all just "love" Brown. Nobody descents because they are simply too afraid. I'm just here to give the other perspective...</p>
<p>Damn, sorry. I thought it said Cornell or Brown.</p>
<p>The options are Penn or Brown, I still say Brown. BROWN ROCKS!</p>
<p>I've spent alot of time at both Brown and Penn and I can asset with absolute confidence that Penn is more pre-professional feeling, regardless of whether people become professionals in the end or not.</p>
<p>Your comment "why would anyone be better at Cornell" is bs! @slipper</p>
<p>Sexy - slipper made good points. It's harder to get a higher GPA at Cornell and the placement is not nearly as good as Brown. Are you refuting these points, and if so please present your argument.</p>
<p>I am just defending my school because it seems to get bashed a lot. Yes, it is harder to get a higher GPA at Cornell, but that may correlate to the fact that you learn more in the end. If you get a high gpa, maybe the classes are a bit tooo easy, if you know what I mean. I am not saying that this is necessarily the case at PENN.</p>
<p>Either way, I still say Brown over PENN anyday.</p>
<p>Yes, Cornell gets a lot of crap. Don't let it get to you as most of the people stupid enough to bash it probably couldn't even get in. However, slipper wasn't bashing it in any way, simply stating facts. You may learn more at Cornell (or Chicago or Reed) but unless it has a great positive impact on your MCAT score, your lower GPA will not have helped you for med school admissions. Brown may appear easy (and may even be easier than other peers) but it's students do well enough on the MCAT to be placed into top med schools, so the school is doing something very right.</p>