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<p>That says a lot about Cornell’s students, if they feel that everything can be quantified with numbers. How exactly does one quantify general friendliness, a professor’s sense of humor, a feeling of “wow! I belong here!”?</p>
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<p>At every school there are professors with sense of humor. Cornell was the only school where D1 felt “wow! I belong here.” Does it make Cornell a better or worse school than Brown? D2 may feel the wow when she visits Brown.</p>
<p>^Exactly. That’s why people were surprised that you seemed to be asking for numbers…</p>
<p>When I brought up numbers I was implying that those statements were more fact based, not as much of touchy feeling, and certainly not with name calling. I have seen quite a few good, intelligent posts there over the years, and I have learned much from many current students and alumni of Cornell.</p>
<p>Listen, there are plenty of facts on here in longwinded exhaustive posts made by people over the years. Some of us are out of college and working, or in grad school, so the posts we make are much shorter.</p>
<p>In any case, Monydad’s post’s were hardly factual, and as mgsinc said if you don’t see the issue with his posts you either a) don’t truly understand what we are criticizing OR b) didn’t read them. </p>
<p>In a thread like this “where should I go school” the OP will never get a good answer with a laundry list of facts. They are more typically a Q&A with the OP in an attempt to get them started on making their own personal decision.</p>
<p>“fit” for brown means a desire to craft your own curriculum. that is a significantly different experience than most other schools. not right or wrong. just different. UC Santa Cruz used to have p/f…their motto for awhile (even on tshirts) was “no grades…thank you!” After some time they left the uber liberal no grades policy because they found that their grads had great difficulty getting into graduate schools. “no grades? no thanks!” The 1960’s were left behind decades ago.</p>
<p>““fit” for brown means a desire to craft your own curriculum.”</p>
<p>Actually it’s not that simple.</p>
<p>Brown students hardly take all of their classes S/NC, and furthermore you can get a write-up from a prof for any course you take S/NC. </p>
<p>Not sure what the point of all that was, your amateurish ■■■■■■■■ isn’t needed.</p>
<p>Brown is so much better than Cornell. And it’s more prestigious</p>
<p>^Please stop. We really, really don’t need this fight. We’re both good schools and individual students who are lucky enough to get into both should choose whichever one most fits them, because that will determine whether they have a great experience or not.</p>
<p>Here is Ivy league plus MIT’s comparison -
<a href="http://www..com/compare.php3?force_uids=888,580,585,1226,940,865,260,1209,937&HIGHLIGHT=JobSatis#thetable%5B/url%5D">http://www..com/compare.php3?force_uids=888,580,585,1226,940,865,260,1209,937&HIGHLIGHT=JobSatis#thetable</a></p>
<p>^ lol that link is either broken or doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>Combine the following words together (eliminate all the space in between) as one whole URL link , you should be able to see the Ivy league + MIT’s comparison results:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www”>www</a>. students review .com /ivy<em>league</em>compare.html</p>
<p>^Also, that site is crazy. For schools like Brown I’d suspect a large percentage of their posters are ■■■■■■ (look at Harvard’s starting and 10-year salary data compared ot everyone else, for example).</p>
<p>^Same applies to Dartmouth, you can call the posters are ■■■■■■. You go to #1 school doesn’t mean you can make more money than a school rank #8 or 9.</p>
<p>Anyway, this site is only a reference, you don’t need to buy it.</p>
<p>^ Never heard of that website. The world only cares about the USNWR, that’s it.</p>
<p>Penn >>>>>>>>> Brown</p>
<p>You’re STILL not getting it. No one at Brown or Penn really cares about USNWR. You are simply trying to make a decision and have grabbed onto the first silly publication that everyone knows about. Not too smart.</p>
<p>Why Dartmouth graduates make more money – probably has something to do with its exposure to wall street employment and networking. So i take the website as a reference. </p>
<p>Like the site said —
Take salary information with a grain of salt – they are dependent upon lots of factors.
(This data is not statistically reliable)</p>
<p>The USNWR and salary stuff probably does something of a good job filtering out people who aren’t right for Brown anyway – not sure how much we should fight against it.</p>
<p>As to salaries in particular, Brown is simply always going to be ranked lower by virtue of the average goals of students at the school. When I got back from my first year at Brown, my friend who had started at the same time at Harvard couldn’t stop talking about I-Banking and Wall St. firms. I had no idea what the hell he was talking about; at Brown, I don’t think I heard a peep about either until my junior year. Perhaps it was just my group of friends – the I-Banking thing seemed absolutely pervasive at Harvard, though.</p>
<p>For people who believe that a plenary desire to go into I-Banking and other high-earning fields straight out of school is a good indicator of where they should go to college, they very well may be better off not going to Brown.</p>
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<p>I did notice on that posted weblink that Brown graduates had the highest job satisfaction rate – and by quite a bit (89% vs 70% at Harvard). Money isn’t everything, especially if your new bosses are going to work you like dogs until you burn out.</p>
<p>For a fun little look at what happens when you consider college solely in terms of how much earning potential it gets you, see this: [Allysia</a> Finley: California Prison Academy—Better Than a Harvard Degree - WSJ.com](<a href=“Allysia Finley: California Prison Academy—Better Than a Harvard Degree - WSJ”>Allysia Finley: California Prison Academy—Better Than a Harvard Degree - WSJ)</p>