<p>Ah, but Ilovebagels, IIRC, we do better sending kids off to Harvard or Yale law than you do. We are one of the top feeders into law school as well, so I wouldn’t say that Penn has the edge on that unless you really thought it was immediately necessary to take law classes before law school, etc.</p>
<p>Culture differences in general between UPenn and Brown… UPenn students are more pre-professionally motivated on the whole. Brown’s culture, IMO, is quite unique and I’m far better at defining that than I am comparing it to other schools I don’t attend. The starting place, in my mind, is the Open Curriculum as I describe in this post: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/385841-brown-curriculum-university-college-explained.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/385841-brown-curriculum-university-college-explained.html</a> . The university-college, where undergraduates, graduates, and professors are viewed as colleagues, undergraduate focus is central to research production, and instruction is considered a central part of our mission also has a huge effect. Our graduate school is designed to be large enough to bring in top research faculty and not make them feel as though they could not be successful at Brown, but small enough to keep with our promise of undergraduates being integrated in all parts of education at Brown and to ensure that all professors get the message that we have high expectations for their support of undergraduates. In labs, undergraduates often have the same responsibilities as graduate students and are often working on their own, independent research projects without oversight from anyone but the PI. Research is mandated in the sciences, not encouraged or even expected, mandated. Etc, etc, etc. Feel free to come by the Brown boards, megamom, where there are a few students currently actively answering questions.</p>