<p>Incredible memories, and Brown keeps on giving-- as several of my lifetime best friends are friends from Brown. Ruth Simmons is beyond fantastic-- perfect for Brown-- an innovator and a creative thinker with boundless energy and high ideals.</p>
<p>I am grateful to have had the experience of Brown which pays off in so many ways one would never have predicted at age 18. </p>
<p>Brown has remained very consistent over the years. The reports I get back from interviewees confirm that the character of the place lives on as I remember it... all the changes have been positive (need blind admissions, more faculty, etc); they have only enhanced what is wonderful.</p>
<p>Brown is like THE place to double major in unrelated fields--the open curriculum gives you the freedom to combine anything you want and it is in fact very typical to do so. There are common combos like psychology and MCM (modern culture and media) and less common ones like neuroscience and visual art--but all are welcome and encouraged. I even know someone who managed to triple concentrate in latin, math, and biology</p>
<p>WBRU is an awesome college radio station--it is basically the most popular alt. rock station in southern new england.
not only is it the oldest college radio station in the country, but rollingstone has consistently named it the best college radio station in the country several years in a row.</p>
<p>definitely not--i would say religious tolerance is another hallmark of brown and the christian population is the largest. there are three big historical churches within the campus (baptist, episcopal, and something else) that are very well attended by the campus community.
there is even a fairly popular christian a capella group (With One Voice)</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior who's planning to apply to Brown next year. At my high school, many students with 4.0's and 1500 SAT's have been rejected by Brown, while several students with 3.8's and 1400's have been accepted. It seems to me that with both groups of students, they had excellent recommendations/essays and strong extra curriculars as well.</p>
<p>So, it leads me to wonder what type of student Brown looks for?</p>
<p>carrera: Vartan was right after me. He took over for Howard Swearer. </p>
<p>smile: There are many stripes of Christianity. Most would feel comfortable; if you're stuck on creationism it might be tough.</p>
<p>mulberry: I would have to say passionate, independent, thoughtful, curious, energetic people. One of my dear old Brown pals (BTW, smile, she is a Christian Scientist who loved Brown) has a husband who went to another elite LAC. He commented that Brown was a school of "5,000 extroverts." Slight exaggeration, but also some truth.</p>
<p>How's the Comparative Lit department? Exciting? ;O</p>
<p>I know Brunonians <em>concentrate</em>. Do they minor/nearly-concentrate? Or does that fall into the realm of self-designed concentrations?</p>
<p>Additionally, I'm curious as to what is going on with this whole transfer student financial aid thing; I heard there was a successful petition..?</p>
<p>i think that brown is on a semester system (correct me if i'm wrong). would you prefer something different (b/c it's too long) or do you like it (opposed to quarter, trimester)?</p>
<p>with the transfer aid...there has been no official decision made yet in terms of the amount of the increase, but there are definitely plans to increase next year's funding pool. although this will be an improvement, it will still take several years for transfer and international financial aid to be equivalent to the funding for everyone else</p>
<p>at least in my opinion, the semester system is fine.
my brother (at dartmouth) is on a quarter system and feels as though his classes are too compressed.
there is definitely an advantage to being able to focus your thoughts on a particular subject over a longer period of time.</p>
<p>there is no official equivalent to a minor at brown. because of the open curriculum, and the fact that you take anything you want, whenever you want, there is little need for that designation. you concentrate to affiliate your main areas of study with academic departments--beyond that, you are free to study as you wish. it's a pretty cool system.</p>
<p>About the radio station: How hard would it be to get involved with it? Is there a lot of competition? I'm assuming yes...Do they want prior experience or anything like that? I do morning announcements at my school (televised) but that's hardly the same...</p>
<p>What is the attitude toward athletes? I read in one of the college review books that varsity athletes are looked down upon. I doubt this is the case, but if it is, does it mainly apply to the "big" sports like football and basketball? Thanks.</p>
<p>Granted this is from a while back (early '80s) but hte readio station was not hard to get into; you started in am radio, and those with a natural interest and committment rose up the ranks.</p>
<p>Athletes were not looked down on; there were a few teams (rugby & football) which had some fairly visible boorish members who caught their share of derision or ire, but I would not generalize it to all sports nor any overriding impression held by non-athletes. </p>
<p>However, Brown is not a sports powerhouse except selected sports, selected seasons-- so there is not the same "rah-rah" enthusiasm there might be at a sports-oriented school with many winning teams. Hockey games were very popular, ditto football.</p>