<p>Wholefoods and East Side Market are really not that far away. I've walked to East Side Market a number of times, and it's a nice, easy walk. I wouldn't want to do it every weekend, but it's not nearly as big a deal as people make it out to be.</p>
<p>VERY Good restaurant: Al Forno</p>
<p>Casual but yummy: Rue de L'Espoir (on Hope Street)</p>
<p>Is the Silver Truck still around?</p>
<p>Do you know if Brown will recognize any college classes taken in high school for credit/placement? I have about a year and a half's worth of transfer credit and wasn't expecting any of it to carry over, but it might be useful if certain classes could.</p>
<p>Brown doesnt typical accept transfer credits in the sense that you'll have to take less classes to graduate, but you wont have to retake a class that you already took. This isn't always true, sometimes they will take your credit and give you advanced standing but that is very rare from my understanding. But, having taken first semester calculus, you won't have to retake that here. If you took a intro bio course, you won't have to retake it in the form of Bio 20 at Brown. Also, certain departments will accept the credit towards your concentration.</p>
<p>does brown or other good universities pay close attention to first semester freshman grades ? thanx.</p>
<p>Yes, but not as much as later semesters. Relax!</p>
<p>What is generally considered the best dormitory at Brown? What percentage of the student body lives off campus?</p>
<p>My feeling about freshman dorms is that if you get good location, you get worse rooms. Rooms on Pembroke are far away, but a lot of them have semi-private bathrooms and much better lighting. Perkins is a completely different story though, since I thought the rooms there were pretty small and dingy, AND it is far away, but you get a great community there. </p>
<p>As far as best dorm in general, the hot ones are New Dorm, or Young O apartments.</p>
<p>New Dorm, Young O, and Minden are some popular upperclassmen dorms.</p>
<p>For freshmen, I'd say the best dorm is Littlefield. It's a great location, small community, and large rooms.</p>
<p>Yeh, how does Brown's IR programem compare to other schools like JHU, Gtown SFS, and Columbia who have excellent IR programmes as well.</p>
<p>I believe 20% of students live off campus, mostly upperclassmen.</p>
<p>Here is also a description of the different freshmen dorms available: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2064811#post2064811%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2064811#post2064811</a></p>
<p>My D was waitlisted at Brown. When is ADOCH? Can she attend?</p>
<p>ADOCH is the 18-19 of April, although I'm pretty sure it's only for admitted students. You could call and check with the admissions office. I'm sure she'd be welcome for a visit at another time, if not during ADOCH. Good luck to you and to her!</p>
<p>She could always just go to ADOCH if she wanted to. She wouldn't be able to be hosted, probably, and she wouldn't get like an info packet, but it's not like they close admission to ADOCH events or anything. I'm not sure I'd recommend that though.</p>
<p>between 90 and 95 percent of students live ON campus; its much more economical and creates better community among the undergraduates.</p>
<p>without a doubt littlefield is the best freshman dorm, though they are really all great, each with their perks and drawbacks. </p>
<p>sorry ive been so mia. keep asking!</p>
<p>Actually, because of the slight housing crunch I've heard that it's easier now for juniors to get off-campus permission, although they're techinically not supposed to.</p>
<p>Everyone keeps talking about how the difficulty/workload for any given student depends on what classes they take etc...</p>
<p>How do they different neuroscience and psychology programs stack up in terms of difficulty and workload? Also, what types of work are involved? Reading? Paper Writing? General studying?</p>
<p>Granted that the answers here won't really change my mind about what to study, but I'm curious about what I'm in for. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>ILoveBrown, that was true, except, now they are beginning to refuse more than ever before which makes no sense considering the housing siutation.</p>
<p>How's Brown's Neuroscience/Cognitive Science Department? </p>
<p>Also, looking at the Brown application, I see that they have a Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience major. Does anyone know what the difference between the three majors are? Does one focus more on psychology and one more on biology or something?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>One of the problems with the housing crunch/off campus permission is that if they let too many students live off campus, then the neighborhood apartments will increase in price, since a lot of Brown students are able/willing to pay more for the apartments than the people who live there now, so Brown also has to think of the Providence natives here. It's not really fair that a bunch of rich kids can just come and kick them out, hence, the limited number of students who can live off campus.</p>